Poetry Hour
I've been reading The 100 Best Poems of All Time, and came across this one. I don't know why, but I really like it. Its not a "happy" or "romantic" poem by any means. I think I just like the "bluesy" rythym and the sharp images. I know its kind of dark, but I just like it. So I thought I'd share it. Props to Langston Hughes, who was "one of the leading writers of the Harlem Renaissance". :)
Harlem
[Dream Deferred]
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
~Langston Hughes
heehee :)
posted by sarah j. @ 8:00 AM
5 Sagacious Sayings
5 Sagacious Sayings:
Good poem, Langston was an amazing poet, very ahead of his time.
...ai ol' Gunga Din. DIN DIN DIN!
You definitely have to be in a postive mood to read Sylvia Plath, as well as her friend [and fellow suicide], Anne Sexton, who wrote Wanting to Die. Now there's an uplifting peice.... :P
I luv mae tha' Gunga Din, especially when its read in Cockney! DIN DIN DIN!
Mmm... The Bell Jar, one of my favorite books. I love Walt Whitman too. I have this really old poem book of his, it looks like a bible... with a marker and everything. It has soo many poems in it. I love it. I marked all these pages with post-it notes and I like to pull it out randomly to read them. My favorite poet is T.S. Eliot though. I love him. I like that poem too!
I havent yet read the Bell Jar, but it is on my list. T.S. Elliott is AWESOME. I also like both the Brownings, Frost, Whitman, Cummings [hehehe], Dickenson, ....um, I think I am naming too many. :P I just remember the 'poetry' sections of my lit classes were always my favorite...
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