09-28-2011, 12:31 PM
As most of you know I am a beginner at poetry, however I am eager to learn and expand my horizons. Along with participating in this and a couple of other poetry forums I have been reading poetry. The problem is the poetry I've been trying to read is as clear as mud to me. I'm obviously too ignorant as of yet to understand.
What are some good poems/authors to begin with? I got the annotated John Milton and I can tell you that ain't the one! I have T.S. Elliot's 'The Wasteland and other poems', but I just don't think he's very good (it may be because I am a newb, though) and I have Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, but I haven't started either.
So, what would you suggest an uncultured poet read to acclimate to this new world of images and trying not to communicate?
What are some good poems/authors to begin with? I got the annotated John Milton and I can tell you that ain't the one! I have T.S. Elliot's 'The Wasteland and other poems', but I just don't think he's very good (it may be because I am a newb, though) and I have Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, but I haven't started either.
So, what would you suggest an uncultured poet read to acclimate to this new world of images and trying not to communicate?