Poetry (POTW?)

[rochvelleth]

You may recently have heard me complaining that I have no poetry in my soul. So, I've been thinking, I should read more poetry. Cunning plan, isn't it? Apart from the PhD, which will inevitably take priority

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[cartesiandaemon]

What constitutes good poetry is probably too lengthy for me to answer with a one-line witty comment and a link to Wikipedia. And I assume you know more *about* poetry than I do.

Off the top of my head, three poems oft quoted by my family when we're drunk would be:
Five ways to kill a man.
Welsh incident
They fuck you up

Your friends page has probably had poetry grafiiti'd across it every so often too, perhaps a judicious search can find people answering "post a poem" memes.

[cartesiandaemon]

Feminist? Assuming for the sake of argument that the poem holds the state of oppression it describes as a bad thing, yes. (I'm never sure with old/foriegn poems. Just occasionally I think "Oh, awesome" and then "Hold on a minute, is this a parody or not?")