Frost will be remembered to me as my favorite---Best is too subjective!-----------''Stopping By'', and ''The Road Not Taken'', are hard acts to follow--------But sooooooooooo many great poets in history!--Us poetry fans are like kids in candy stores!!-----------william
Well, it's like asking who will be the better remembered actor Lindsey Lohan or Keanu Reeves.
Like Keanu Reeves, I find Whitman wooden and formulaic, and the wretched formulas he promotes are one's he created himself to undermine poetry.
Robert Frost, like Lindsey Lohan is workmanlike, presents a bright and appealing image, and us often underrated.
Neither of them are great poets, just as neither of these are great actors. In a century Swinburne or Maya Angelou will be better remembered than Frost or Whitman. They are just easy for school anthologies right now.
That's like asking which painter will be remembered as the best -- Michelangelo or Raphael. Every poet has their strength and weakness. Nancy makes a good point, but I don't think there ever will be a "best".
Maybe the "best" died in a car accident as an infant, and never got the chance to pen a word.
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Frost will be remembered to me as my favorite---Best is too subjective!-----------''Stopping By'', and ''The Road Not Taken'', are hard acts to follow--------But sooooooooooo many great poets in history!--Us poetry fans are like kids in candy stores!!-----------william
Well, it's like asking who will be the better remembered actor Lindsey Lohan or Keanu Reeves.
Like Keanu Reeves, I find Whitman wooden and formulaic, and the wretched formulas he promotes are one's he created himself to undermine poetry.
Robert Frost, like Lindsey Lohan is workmanlike, presents a bright and appealing image, and us often underrated.
Neither of them are great poets, just as neither of these are great actors. In a century Swinburne or Maya Angelou will be better remembered than Frost or Whitman. They are just easy for school anthologies right now.
That's like asking which painter will be remembered as the best -- Michelangelo or Raphael. Every poet has their strength and weakness. Nancy makes a good point, but I don't think there ever will be a "best".
Maybe the "best" died in a car accident as an infant, and never got the chance to pen a word.
Whitman. I don't know why...just a feeling.
Both of them
frost
better one may be remembered as better but we have yet to read the best.
...just sayin'