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Mariah: I have someone on my mind

Mike: he pecks at it like birds

Unknown Poets 3
Can I quit?
Just forget?
Im sick of this
Im not adding to this earth

Unknown Poets 2
I talked a man out of suicide today
He coudln see why he should go on
it was his life to live why shoud he pay?
He believed his choice to die would be his to make

Unknown Poets 1
Too much on my mind
I have lost what im trying to find
I never in any life would be able to show you truly how I feel
And I had soo much to say.. too bad it had to end this way

Famous Poets: Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (July 7 (O.S.) = July 19 (N.S.), 1893 - April 14, 1930) was among the foremost representatives for the poetic futurism of early 20th century Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union.

Life and work

He was born the third child in Bagdadi, Georgia where his father worked as a forest ranger. Both parents were descendants of Cossacks. At the age of 14 Mayakovsky took part in socialist demonstrations at the town of Kutaisi, where he attended the local Grammar School. After the sudden and premature death of his father in 1906, the family — Mayakovsky, his mother, and his two sisters — moved to Moscow, where he attended the school No. 5.

Famous Poets: Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864 – December 31, 1936) was a Spanish writer and philosopher.

Introduction

Unamuno worked in all major genres: essays, novels, poetry, and theater, and, as a modernist, contributed greatly to dissolving the boundaries between genres and creating new ones. There is some debate as to whether Unamuno was in fact a member of the Generation of '98 (an ex post facto literary group of Spanish intellectuals and philosophers which was the creation of José Martínez Ruiz--a group that includes Antonio Machado, Azorín , Pío Baroja, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Maetzu and Ganivet, among others). His philosophy also foreshadowed the thinking of 20th century existentialists, such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.

Famous Poets: Federico Garcia Lorca
Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5,1898; died near Granada, August 19,1936, García Lorca is Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poet and dramatist. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less obvious works). He must now be bracketed with MACHADO as one of the two greatest poets Spain has produced this century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.

Famous Poets: Gabriela Mistral
(b. April 7, 1889, Vicu–a , Chile / d. Jan. 10, 1957, Hempstead N.Y., US) (pen-name of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga) Chilean poet, educator and diplomat, the first Latin American to receive the Nobel Prize in literature (1945). After an early love affair tragically ended by the suicide of her lover, Mistral lived a life of self-described desolation, yearning for, but never experiencing motherhood.

Famous Poets: Raymond Carver
Ramond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon in 1938 and grew up in Yakima, Washington State. His father was a sawmill worker and his mother was a waitress and clerk. He married early and for years writing had to take second place to earning a living for his young family , although he attened the John Gardnrer creative writing class at Chico State College. During this time he undertook many mundane jobs including, hospital porter, textbook editor, dictionary salesman, petrol station attendant and deliveryman. These experiences and his own increasingly desperate domestic circumstances where frequently the subject of his poetry and short stories.

Famous Poets: Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud was the prototype of the poet as a wayward genius. Born on October 20 1854 in Charville, France, the son of an army captain (who deserted his family when Arthur was 6 years old) A rebel from a young age, at the age of 10 he wrote: "..You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that!" This feeling of rebelliousness and alienation grew throughout his life, running away from home at 16, and wandered around aimlessly for almost a year, picking up odd-jobs where he could and spending some time in jail on a vagrancy charge, and is returned home.

Famous Poets: Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire is rightly considered to have been one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century. A radical, revolutionary in his own time, Baudelaire led a tempestuous, often despairing lifestyle. He's still renowned today, not only as a poet but also as an art critic and translator. Baudelaire was born on the ninth of April 1821, the only child of Francois Baudelaire (a sixty-one year old ex-priest, turned civil servant) and Caroline Defayis (twenty-seven years old). Francois, being a modestly talented poet and painter himself, installed an appreciation of the arts in his son.

Famous Poets: Pablo Neruda
Born: 1904 Died: 1973

Born NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASOALTO in southern Chile on July 12, 1904, Pablo Neruda led a life charged with poetic and political activity. In 1923 he sold all of his possessions to finance the publication of his first book, Crepusculario ("Twilight"). He published the volume under the pseudonym "Pablo Neruda" to avoid conflict with his family, who disapproved of his occupation. The following year, he found a publisher for Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada ("Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair"). The book made a celebrity of Neruda, who gave up his studies at the age of twenty to devote himself to his craft.

Famous Poets: Gustavo A. Becquer
Birth Date: February 17, 1836 Seville, Spain
Death Date: December 22, 1870 Madrid, Spain

Spanish poet and romance-writer, Becquer was born in Seville, one of the eight sons of Don Jose Dominguez Becquer, well know genre painter of Seville, and Dona Joaquina Bostida de Vargas. The family was of distinguished Flemish ancestry. Before he was ten Gustavo Adolfo was orphaned; he was forced in his early years to depend on the generosity of a succession of relatives.

Famous Poets: Victor Hugo
Hugo, Victor Marie, Vicomte /// Born:1802 Died:1885

(hy´g, Fr. vktôr´ mär´ vkôNt´ üg´) (KEY) , 1802–85, French poet, dramatist, and novelist, b. Besançon. His father was a general under Napoleon. As a child he was taken to Italy and Spain and at a very early age had published his first book of poems, resolving “to be Chateaubriand or nothing.” The preface to his drama Cromwell (1827) placed him at the head of the romanticists; he remained the greatest exponent of the school and was considered by many the greatest poet of his day.

Famous Poets: Anna Akhmatova
Born: 1889 Died: 1966

O let the organ, many-voiced, sing boldly,
O let it roar like spring's first thunderstorm!
My half-closed eyes over your young bride's shoulder
Will meet your eyes just once and then no more.
Goodbye, be very happy, I relieve you
Of all your vows - but, dearest heart, take care
Lest my most sacred words, my ravings fevered
You breathe in your enamored partner's ear.
Know this: they'll poison and corrode your ardent
And blessed union... I go forth to seek -
To seek and claim the lovely magic garden
Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.

1921

The poetry of Anna Akhmatova can be called “the book of woman’s soul”. At the turn of the centuries – 19th and 20th, on the edge of the great revolution, in the epoch shattered by two world wars, there appeared, formed and developed perhaps the most significant female poetry in the history of the new time.

Famous Poets: Alexandr Pushkin
Born: 1799 Died: 1837



I love you - love you, even as I
Rage at myself for this obsession,
And as I make my shamed confession,
Despairing at your feet I lie.
I know, I know - it ill becomes me,
I am too old, time to be wise...
But how?.. This love - it overcomes me,
A sickness this in passion's guise.
When you are near I'm filled with sadness,
When far, I yawn, for life's a bore.
I must pour out this love, this madness,
There's nothing that I long for more!
When your skirts rustle, when, my angel,
Your girlish voice I hear, when your
Light step sounds in the parlor - strangely,
I turn confused, perturbed, unsure. …

Nobody has been able to say “I love you” in a more passionate, desperate, deep and yet elegant and tasteful way. That is what distinguishes Alexander Pushkin from any person in the world, alive or dead. He was a genius, and no renowned person in Russia is worshipped more. Pushkin pours out our Russian soul - gleeful, suffering, generous, confused, glorious and unsure… In St. Petersburg Pushkin is everywhere. The streets, parks, boulevards, squares and riversides keep the sound of his heroes’ steps. Russian painting and music abound in Pushkin’s ideas, plots, characters, and moods. The time when he lived is called “the Golden Age of the Russian literature”. He is the ONE who influenced the cultural development of Russia in every way.

Famous Poets: William Butler Yeats
Born: June 13, 1865 // Died: January 18, 1939

W. B. Yeats, b. Dublin, June 13, 1865, d. Jan. 28, 1939, was perhaps the greatest English-language poet of the 20th century. The major defining elements of Yeats's poetic career were visible by his 24th year. He had formed a profound attachment to the county of Sligo, where he stayed for long periods while living in London (1867-83); his interest in the occult led him to found (1885) the Dublin Hermetic Society and to join (1887) the London Lodge of Theosophists; his 1885 meeting with the nationalist John O'Leary prompted his discovery of Ireland as a literary subject and his commitment to the cause of Irish national identity; in 1889 he fell in love with Maud Gonne and published The Wanderings of Oisin.

Famous Poets: William Wordsworth
Born: April 7, 1770 // Died: April 23, 1850

In 1793, Wordsworth published his first two books of verse, An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. Each was a longish poem in heroic couplets, the dominant English verse form of the eighteenth century. Essentially backward-looking in style and sensibility, they were false starts for a radical thinker who would soon also be the most revolutionary poet of the time.

Famous Poets: Walt Whitman
Born: May 31, 1819 // Died: March 26, 1892

A native New Yorker, Whitman published his first work "Leaves of Grass" at his own expense. It was universally criticized because of it's sexual subject matter and innovative use of free verse. Whitman's work is filled with his concepts of freedom and the dignity of man; and his themes of equality, individuality, sexuality, patriotism, spiritualism, and death are still vehemently studied and celebrated.