Q. What makes great poetry? The way the writer expresses themselves? Metephores and literary terms? The theme? The Emotion? Language? Rhythm?
Answer
Yes, and having something to say, being able to say it in a fresh way, knowing how to use language and all those tools in any writer's toolbox. Also, knowing what a word means and how to use it.
Poetry does not have to rhyme, but rhythm is important.
You must read as much as you can and as many different styles as you can, classic and contemporary; free verse and structured forms. Two good anthologies: Staying Alive, Real poems for Unreal Times edited by Neil Astley and Garrison Keillor's Good Poems. Two books on writing that will help guide you are Mary Oliver's A Poetry Handbook and The Poetry Home Repair Kit from Ted Kooser.
There are many good sites on line where you can read poetry daily or browse the archives:
Academy of Americans Poets
Poetry Daily
Verse Daily
The Writer's Almanac
Ploughshares
Rattle
Poetry 180
Poetry Foundation
And if you're looking for more poets, here's a very short list. Have fun!
William Stafford
Li-Young Lee
Gary Snyder
Dorianne Laux
Lucille Clifton
Mahmoud Darwish
Seamus Heaney
Anna Akhmatova
Stanley Kunitz
Yusef Komunyakaa
Kay Ryan
Jane Kenyon
Yehuda Amichai
Tony Hoagland
William Matthews
Emily Dickinson
Grace Paley
Wislawa Szymborska
Donald Hall
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Bob Hicok
Floyd Skloot
Mary Oliver
Ruth Stone
Jane Mead
Countee Cullen
WCW
Robert Frost
Brendan Galvin
Linda McCarriston
AE Stallings
Dylan Thomas
Richard Wilbur
Naomi Shihab Nye
Ted Kooser
Galway Kinnell
Rita Dove
Mary Jo Bang
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Rhina Espaillat
Allen Ginsberg
Charles Simic
Czeslaw Milosz
Joy Harjo
Eavan Boland
Elizabeth Bishop
Les Murray
Federico GarcÃa Lorca
Pablo Neruda
Robert Wrigley
John Ashbery
Dean Young
Major Jackson
Terrance Hayes
Patricia Smith
Yes, and having something to say, being able to say it in a fresh way, knowing how to use language and all those tools in any writer's toolbox. Also, knowing what a word means and how to use it.
Poetry does not have to rhyme, but rhythm is important.
You must read as much as you can and as many different styles as you can, classic and contemporary; free verse and structured forms. Two good anthologies: Staying Alive, Real poems for Unreal Times edited by Neil Astley and Garrison Keillor's Good Poems. Two books on writing that will help guide you are Mary Oliver's A Poetry Handbook and The Poetry Home Repair Kit from Ted Kooser.
There are many good sites on line where you can read poetry daily or browse the archives:
Academy of Americans Poets
Poetry Daily
Verse Daily
The Writer's Almanac
Ploughshares
Rattle
Poetry 180
Poetry Foundation
And if you're looking for more poets, here's a very short list. Have fun!
William Stafford
Li-Young Lee
Gary Snyder
Dorianne Laux
Lucille Clifton
Mahmoud Darwish
Seamus Heaney
Anna Akhmatova
Stanley Kunitz
Yusef Komunyakaa
Kay Ryan
Jane Kenyon
Yehuda Amichai
Tony Hoagland
William Matthews
Emily Dickinson
Grace Paley
Wislawa Szymborska
Donald Hall
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Bob Hicok
Floyd Skloot
Mary Oliver
Ruth Stone
Jane Mead
Countee Cullen
WCW
Robert Frost
Brendan Galvin
Linda McCarriston
AE Stallings
Dylan Thomas
Richard Wilbur
Naomi Shihab Nye
Ted Kooser
Galway Kinnell
Rita Dove
Mary Jo Bang
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Rhina Espaillat
Allen Ginsberg
Charles Simic
Czeslaw Milosz
Joy Harjo
Eavan Boland
Elizabeth Bishop
Les Murray
Federico GarcÃa Lorca
Pablo Neruda
Robert Wrigley
John Ashbery
Dean Young
Major Jackson
Terrance Hayes
Patricia Smith
Any great(maybe famous) DUTCH poets?
Q. I need to find poetry, songs, books, movies, etc. in Dutch. It needs to be something that I'd enjoy, not just meeting the requirements of being in Dutch. So it doesn't have to be modern, but it still has to have redeeming quality.
Basically I'm looking for someone who grew up with the dutch language to tell me about the books they grew up reading, the movies they liked to watch, maybe some poetry they had to read in school, songs that are really popular, and so on. Any help is appreciated.Thanks!
But mainly poetry.
Basically I'm looking for someone who grew up with the dutch language to tell me about the books they grew up reading, the movies they liked to watch, maybe some poetry they had to read in school, songs that are really popular, and so on. Any help is appreciated.Thanks!
But mainly poetry.
Answer
Don't start with poetry.
Try the books on Pietje Bell written by Chris van Abkoude: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietje_Bell_(personage). These are children books.
Then, if you are more fluent in Dutch, try the history books written for children by Thea Beckman: Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek, Geef me de ruimte, Triomf van de verschroeide aarde, Rad van Fortuin etc. etc.
If you can read these books, try some literature: De donkere Kamer van Damocles written by Willem Frederik Hermans. His other books are also worthwhile. Gerard Reve, De Avonden.
A lot of English books are translated into Dutch. So why not read classics like Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen in Dutch?
music: Frank Boeijen Groep (listen on Youtube), De Dijk (also Youtube)
Don't start with poetry.
Try the books on Pietje Bell written by Chris van Abkoude: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietje_Bell_(personage). These are children books.
Then, if you are more fluent in Dutch, try the history books written for children by Thea Beckman: Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek, Geef me de ruimte, Triomf van de verschroeide aarde, Rad van Fortuin etc. etc.
If you can read these books, try some literature: De donkere Kamer van Damocles written by Willem Frederik Hermans. His other books are also worthwhile. Gerard Reve, De Avonden.
A lot of English books are translated into Dutch. So why not read classics like Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen in Dutch?
music: Frank Boeijen Groep (listen on Youtube), De Dijk (also Youtube)
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