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  • enthralledforever
    Oct 29 10:10 AM 2006
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    I am taking the SAT literature subject test soon and I want to familiarize myself with a wide gamut of poetry from all periods.

    My favorite poet is Shakespeare, and I have read a little of many others like Donne, Dickinson, Silverstein,Tolkien,Kipling,cummings( can't understand him fully though) etc.

    I want to read poets who exemplified the writing styles of their times ( so that I understand the particular, peculiar diction of their periods.)
    I also have to read modern poetry( although it's not a part of this site).

    Any help will, of course, be greatly appreciated.

    P.S Great site!



  • I-Like-Rhymes
    October 29, 2006
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    Good luck in your preparation and in the test.
    If you click on the poetry link at the top of any oldpoetry page you should find a series of good search tools.
    I would suggest you first click on the date written list and you can sample poetry from various centuries quite easily.
    Then why not try the regional searches so you can find poetry from different continents.

    There is a group you might consider joining from allpoetry

    http://allpoetry.com/group/6894

    You might want to write about your conclusions and post it for other members to see.

  • rufina caraid
    October 30, 2006
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    Essays

    May I suggest too that you look through our Essays. These have been written by members of Allpoetry, sharing their own perceptions and thoughts on the writing of e e cummings, Emily Dickinson and others. These essays may prove useful to you Should they prove to be useful then would you please let the authors know that their work has helped you.

  • Christina Finlayson
    November 6, 2006
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    Chaucer is a good one to read. His work was much more "readable" than the few other noteworthies of his time...surprisingly closer to modern English, and he also brought 'reading for the joy of reading' to light in England and was highly admired for it.

    Dickinson was one of my favorites (still is) but I now rate Elizabeth Barrett Browning above her. She not only influenced Dickinson, but it was predicted in the '60s that E. Browning's work would later soar in popularity for its daring comments on the suffering of women in the 1800s. On a content level, it was highly unusual for a woman to speak out in this manner. 170 years later, feminists are saying, "Look at this woman!" I am not a feminist but a traditionalist, myself; nonetheless, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was revolutionary in her own right and mastered meter and rhyme at an age before many of us knew what a noun was.

    And don't forget Tennyson!
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