Reading poetry is a good way to gauge your own level of interest, appreciation, acceptance, openness, awareness, compassion, caring, and love for; well, the experience of yourself and others. What you don't get, what you hate, what you don't care to finish reading, what you are bored by, are all valuable things to find out. Find the language in a poem that speaks your language, and that you can relate to.
Whatever your response to a specific poetic dream, drama, or derision may be, this link is the place to explore a variety of poems that have been chosen as the best of the era. Find your poetry where you find it, in the dirt under your fingernails, in the pain in your back, in the night sky, or in the epic of what is your life. Poetry can tell you something about yourself, and your relationship with yourself and everything else. Your the literary critic. You decide for yourself what style you enjoy or mood your attracted to. Feast on:
Poem: Congo by Vachel Lindsay http://www.bartleby.com/104/81.html
Anthology: Modern American Poetry, 1919 by Louis Untermeyer
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