The Best Poets of the 20th Century
Who are the best 20th century poets? This list includes great poets from the 20th century such as Maya Angelou, T.S. Eliot, James Baldwin, and Robert Frost. Though the genre of poetry has a rich history, dating back many centuries, the 1900s have seen some truly great poets and poetry. From modernist poetry and imagism to more traditional forms, the poets on this list have mastered their craft. Written works have the ability to make us feel. They make us want to believe, be inspired, and live vicariously through the stories on the page. Whether short or long form, poetry is often illusory, and full of rich imagery or hidden meaning. It is these elements which provoke readers to dig deeper. The best poems and poets are read throughout the ages. They are passed from generation to generation and taught throughout schools to young students. Poets and their poetry have the ability to take readers places and into worlds never imagined. Poets can often be tortured souls or great thinkers that allow readers a new view on the world. These greatest 20th century poets provide the kind of emotional connection to the written word that few can, and do so in a modern way. Among them are some of the top writers and poets of all time.
- When You Are Old, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, Never Give All The Heart
- The Wasteland, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Hollow Men
- I Do Not Love You, If You Forget Me, Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines
- Ithaca, As Much As You Can, Body Remember
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Ranier Maria Rilke
At The Brink Of Night, Behind the Blameless Trees, Falconry - The Open Balcony, Viaje a la luna, Blind Grace
- Livro Do Desassossego
- The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Mending Wall
- The Bell Jar, Ariel, The Collected Poems
- Verwandlungen / Transformations, All My Pretty Ones, Live or Die
- Everything, I Taught Myself to Live Simply, You Will Hear Thunder
- Funeral Blues, Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue, A Walk After Dark
- i carry your heart with me, may i feel said he, maggie and milly and molly and may
- The Emperor of Ice-Cream, Sunday Morning, Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, And Death Shall Have No Dominion, Fern Hill
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Wislawa Symborska
- One Art, I Am in Need of Music, The Fish
- Dreams, As I Grew Older, Mother to Son
- Fugue of Death, In Front of a Candle, Psalm
- Blackberry-Picking, Mid-Term Break, Death of a Naturalist
- Still I Rise, Phenomenal Woman, Caged Bird
- 22Much Like Me, Lady with Camelias, Whence Cometh Such Tender Rapture?
- Aubade, The Spirit Wood, Since the Majority of Me
- Fatal interview, The murder of Lidice, The harp-weaver and other poems
- In the Mecca; Poems, Annie Allen