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What's your favorite poem?
What's your favorite Poem? What thing do you find peculiar in it? At what age (or what time of your life) did it introduce itself to you? At what time did it stick?
What's your favorite Poem? What thing do you find peculiar in it? At what age (or what time of your life) did it introduce itself to you? At what time did it stick?
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My answer remains the same: The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe. Kind of a boring choice for anglophone contexts, but in Brazil Poe is all the rage.
I like its gothicism, regularity, simplicity and rhyming.
I know very little about poetry, but this is also one of my favorites. What I love most is the rhythm, and the rhyming as you said. Not that I think poetry has to be structured this way to be appreciable, but there's something very pleasant about reading a poem aloud and having it flow like "The Raven" does.
I don't read a lot of poetry because I rarely enjoy it. Many years ago when I was a teenager I read Martín Fierro but it didn't stick with me, it was good but not particularly impressive or life changing. I'm currently reading Les Fleurs du mal and I'm enjoying it but I just started so I can't say if it's going to stick.
There are a bunch of poems in Sandra Cisneros' Loose Woman that I enjoy.
I don't have any one single favourite, but I could pluck some examples of the kind that I like.
I'm also interested to read any [short] poetry Tilderinos have written.