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Poetry?
Hi guys,
My neighbour is in hospital and has asked me to find him a book of English, easy to read and to digest poetry.
To be honest, I never got into English poetry all that much so I'm a bit at a loss as to where to start. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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Robert Graves is one of my favourite English poets, and very accessible too.
The Naked and the Nude
Robert Graves
For me, the naked and the nude
(By lexicographers construed
As synonyms that should express
The same deficiency of dress
Or shelter) stand as wide apart
As love from lies, or truth from art.
Lovers without reproach will gaze
On bodies naked and ablaze;
The Hippocratic eye will see
In nakedness, anatomy;
And naked shines the Goddess when
She mounts her lion among men.
The nude are bold, the nude are sly
To hold each treasonable eye.
While draping by a showman's trick
Their dishabille in rhetoric,
They grin a mock-religious grin
Of scorn at those of naked skin.
The naked, therefore, who compete
Against the nude may know defeat;
Yet when they both together tread
The briary pastures of the dead,
By Gorgons with long whips pursued,
How naked go the sometime nude!
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Give him some hard core pornography instead.
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That'd be uber harsh if he was in for cock surgery, like.
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Clock surgery :blink:
Is that a wind up :frusty:
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I knew you'd chime in with something like that, bell-end.
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Thanks chavis, knew I could count on you. Any others you are thinking of?
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the only poetry I know of is that wordsworth gheyness we got forced to read at school, true story.