OOC: Poetry Recommendations?

[watch_is_me]

So, oddly, since I've gotten into Who and started writing fic, I've also found myself reading poetry. I've always looked at poetry and gone "Pfft. Poetry. It's like, what you do if you can't write fiction." Of course, now I'm reading poetry and going "Well, hell, no, it's not the same thing at all. This is what you write to say the things you *can't* say in narrative prose." And it's lovely for providing hooks and inspiration for ideas and fiction, so far, or seems like it will/could be.

Anyway, so I've been on a Shakespeare and Walt Whitman kick recently, and have Dickinson and "The Waste Land" lying about my room, and mean to get to Wilfred Owen and Dylan Thomas, but I was wondering, for those more poetically well-read than I, any good recommendations? Any poems or poets that specifically make you think of the Doctor or of your muse? Or that are just, you know, really good?

Links to poems would be awesome!

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"Unicorn evils." That's a very nice turn of phrase, there. It's amazing how nice death is, for literary work. It makes for beautiful songs, too. So many good folksongs about the dead, especially war dead and criminal dead.

I need to read more Frost. I'm guessing I'd like him, but I've just picked up the usual osmosis ones--ye old paths less-traveled by and woods stopped by, etc. Bryant, I don't know. Shall look into to! And cummings, I know, but haven't read. Heh, same with Tennyson!

It's such a funny thing, wandering into a field I don't usually play in. I realize I know all the *names,* but I don't know what they stand for. Whereas, in genre fiction, you know, if someone said "Butler" to me, or "Philip K. Dick" or "William Gibson," I immediately know what that name *means.* Not just that they're an author, but what that name describes. Always strange, being a newbie.