Poetry #2b

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1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot

2. The Lady of Shalott, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. I picked the only stanza that didn't end in "Shalott". I suppose that one was a gimme.

3. The Ballad of East and West, Rudyard Kipling

4. The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost. I think this is one of his three most well-known poems.

5. Kublai Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

6. The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, Edna St. Vincent Millay

Anyone who has noticed a slight bias towards Kipling and Frost, no, you're not imagining things. They're my two favorite poets. :-)

I would have thought more people would have tried their hand at these, since they were actually easier than the first round. I mean, all of them are in modern English, and a couple are really well-known, or should be. Feh.

Any mention of red wheelbarrows will be met with scorn and derision.

Comments

[polypolyglot.livejournal.com]

I should have been able to identify Eliot and Frost. I must be braindead.

[caoilfhionn.livejournal.com]

Any mention of red wheelbarrows will be met with scorn and derision.

Really, scorn and derision are the only reason I bring it up. Oh, and the evil factor, I suppose. Heh.