What's your favourite poem?

I also like Sonnet 116

Yeah same, as throughout the poem it seems as if the speaker is saying the the grief their dad still feels isn't ideal, and is too prolonged. But then they reveal at the end that they feel the same way, which makes it so poignant.

I think its called havisham by CAD
I have more but

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I am part of a lost generation
And I refuse to believe that
I can change the world.
I realize this may be a shock, but
“Happiness comes from within”
Is a lie, and
“Money will make me happy”
So in thirty years, I will tell my children
They are not the most important thing in my life.
My employer will know that
I have my priorities straight because
Work
Is more important than
Family
I tell you this:
Once upon a time
Families stayed together
But this will not be true in my era.
This is a quick fix society
Experts tell me
Thirty years from now, I will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of my divorce.
I do not concede that
I will live in a country of my own making.
In the future,
Environmental destruction will be the norm.
No longer can it be said that
My peers and I care about this Earth.
It will be evident that
My generation is apathetic and lethargic.
It is foolish to presume that
There is hope.
And all of this will come true unless we reverse it.


Re-read the poem starting from "There is hope" and then read the line above it, and continue upwards.

I did that poem in English last year. It's so bitter and emotional

I absolutely love....

Ulysses and Tithonus by Tennyson
Ozymandias by Percy Shelley
The Tyger by William Blake
The Aeneid by Virgil
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carol

Its funny how so many people are only naming poems on the GCSE syllabus... or is it just a bit sad?

As I walked out one evening by W.H Auden (it's bizarre but lovely) and
from The Prophet on Love by Khalil Gibran (bit lengthy but it's different people's perspectives on love, death and beauty and it's a beautiful poem)

Its funny how so many people are only naming poems on the GCSE syllabus... or is it just a bit sad?

I absolutely love The Prophet. I must have read it over 100 times The Farewell is also beautiful

Same, it's one I always go back to, whatever my mood. I haven't read the farewell (I'm gonna look it up now )