Which Famous Poet Are You?
My Score: Dylan Thomas!
I scored:
66 Demeanour,
54 Debauchery,
62 Traditionalism, and
65 Expression!
Man! Do you love to party or what! If it's not fun, you probably haven't done it in a while. But that doesn't mean you're not serious about some things. You are a person with deep passions and a respect for beauty and craft. The world is a better place for having you in it. Too bad you won't be around that long. Drink up! Your masterpiece is "Under Milkwood".
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[For your reading pleasure, here's the first Dylan Thomas poem I ever loved:]
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
i always knew you were a wild man at heart.
i am:
E.E. Cummings!
You scored 66 Demeanour, 63 Debauchery, 50 Traditionalism, and 80 Expression!
You are generally good-natured, but you have a dark side, and your dark side wants to party. You make your own rules and say what's on your mind. You love life, but you don't take shit from anyone. You have strong political opinions, but you probably think about sex more often than just about anything else. Your masterpiece is "Somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond".
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[somewhere i have never travelled]
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose
or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands
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I am sure both of you are what you think you are without having to take one of these tests. I am always raging into the dark night so I must be Dylan. LMAO
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"what i am is what i am are you what you or what?"
edie brickell
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/What-I-Am-lyrics-Edie-Brickell-New-Bohemians/33C196C89D47B22948256D920026F0EA
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"I'm not aware of too many things.
I know what I know, if you know what I mean."
-Edie Brickell
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"philosophy is a walk on the slippery rocks
religion is a light in the fog "
edie brickell
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This too...
"Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box
Religion is the smile on a dog"
-Edie Brickell
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is she still married to paul simon? why is that question making me laugh?
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They're no longer married. Maybe she called him Al.
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wonder if he called her betty? maybe he thought she had diamonds on the soles of her shoes?
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Yo soy yo con mis circunstancias. Unamuno
Ask John what that means...
I got Maya Angelou but am as much like her as I am a duck bill platypus.
However Maya culture is interesting and I have traveled with hieroglyph experts to many Maya ruins in Mexico and Central America.
Remember all poetry is just words, and more words. Everything is obfuscated and has meaning for those who write it and possibly truth for those who read it if they can understand the truth. However, too many play games and tell lies and we are all held prisoner with this both in our lives, religions and politics. Only truth will make us free.
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Perhaps you don't remember this, John, but in one of the first letters you wrote to me from prison you quoted Dylan Thomas's lines "Rage, rage, etc. I guess he has been a favorite of yours for over 15 years.
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My favorite Unamuno line is "Siento luego soy" (I feel, therefore I am).
And Descartes, with his "Cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am) is probably rolling over in his grave.
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i'm here, therefore i am.
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I exist because I feel. I am here with all my circumstances and my life that had so much in the past. What I want now I realize might be a curse instead of joy and happiness so I let it go and therefore, I am, I have, I feel, I do not want. It is like circular reincarnation..and the flowers always bloom in the spring so there is everlasting hope for love.
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helen, we all exist because we feel, think, are. you know that. we're all here with our circumstances, whatever they might be. and a lot of us (meaning that in a general way) know that what we want is a curse, in some way.
everything is circular. what goes around comes around, in more ways than one.
life, death, rebirth.
there's always hope for love, even if it doesn't find you in this life, in person, i believe it can happen sometime in another one.
without hope, you (and i mean this in a general sense as well) might as well just give up. it's why i don't succumb to the lure of of all my meds that scream at me a lot to just take them all and be done with it.
i have hope. i can't take the hope away from my friends and family that i'll get better. they've alrady been through enough losing each other. my brother gave up and drank himself to death and i had to witness my then 12 year old nephew watch his father die. i could no more let him see something like that happen to me than i could well, i can't think of a good analogy for that right now.
everyone's got SOMETHING going on in this life. all of us do.
it always goes around and around.
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Maya Angelou. Go figure. I never get to be the exciting ones.
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Maya got to compose and read a poem for Bill Clinton's inauguration!
I wonder who Hillary would select.
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i had forgotten that.
maya started inadvertently started the red hat craze. think i'll go put on a purple dress.
i wonder what her campaign song will be?
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Your Score: Maya Angelou!
You scored 58 Demeanour, 36 Debauchery, 75 Traditionalism, and 55 Expression!
You like to talk about yourself, and you smile ALL THE FUCKING TIME. You're not very daring or original, but hey, that's why Oprah loves you! Your masterpiece is "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", or at least you think it is.
My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 20% on Demeanour
You scored higher than 5% on Debauchery
You scored higher than 80% on Traditionalism
You scored higher than 9% on Expression
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Another Maya (and doesn't that name mean "Illusion"?)!
Thanks, Angela.
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Mike, my nephew, went to Mexico with me.
He was so impressed with the Maya ruins he named his dog Maya. Yes, Maya has many meanings. So do all names including John or Juan. Helen also is Elena and all our illusive names and surnames. That is why we all want to be someone else by name. Who is Jesus? I knew a Puerto Rican named Jesus and a Spanish woman named Jesusa. Maria is common but
name your name on my space and it sticks forever like glue on an envelope that can be wiped off or cut out with a knife and will never appear on your tombstone.
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Well I thought I'd come up with Emily Dickenson or some such thing..
Yes, it came up Dylan Thomas... evidently I am more debauched than I thought...
The fact that his writing style is so different from my own makes me wonder what planet the quiz developer lives on.
Anyway.. thanks for the chuckle...
Poetry month and all...
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I expected to be e.e. cummings or T.S. Eliot, or perhaps one of the 19th century Romantics.
I used to like to party many, many years ago. But I can't remember the last time I've gone to a party - and I've only been in a bar maybe three times in the past 15 years, always to hear music, not to "party." Dylan might have fit me better in 1992.
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How many parties, how many drinks, how many loves, how many concerts, how much is too much? Dylan is dead. We aren't and this is the only reason to forget the past and love NOW. FREEDOM, PEACE AND LOVE.
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Yes, but our own society we live in, is slowly taking all these things away from us. For instance, a group of teens wore matching t-shirts that stated what they believed - 'Abortion is Homocide' - and the school started threatening them that if they did not take the shirts off, they would be suspended, refused their rights to go to their own prom, etc. Kids that believe in God and pray during their lunch period or bring a bible to school are scrutinized by faculty and staff members because of their beliefs. It really stinks that they do not and have not said 'The Pledge of Alegence since my oldest was in kindegarten. What has our world come to?!
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These where my scores:
Dylan Thomas
You scored higher than 20% on Demeanour
You scored higher than 82% on Debauchery
You scored higher than 2% on Traditionalism
You scored higher than 82% on Expression
All because I love the city I suspect....
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Now go back and read my last comment on the Pope blog. How can anyone BE a poet if they are not poetic and don't write poetry. I find this a stupid game to play and made up by ignorant and non poetic people. Debauchery? What is that anyway? The originators of this blog are 100% for debauchery aren't they? YOU ARE NOT DYLAN THOMAS, THE ALCOHOLIC POET, NEITHER IS JOHN AND I AM NOT MAYA ANGELOU. HOWEVER WE ARE ALL MANKIND AND HUMAN. THIMK! LOL
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I don't know if what I scored was good or bad haha. I don't agree with the results. And GOD I AM A POET hahaha.
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Thanks, Chris!
Interesting, since I chose the "nice quiet house in the country" both times.
In a different mood today, I retook the test:
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i wonder how many poets there are for choices to be scored on?
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Your Score: Maya Angelou!
You scored 75 Demeanour, 40 Debauchery, 70 Traditionalism, and 75 Expression!
You like to talk about yourself, and you smile ALL THE FUCKING TIME. You're not very daring or original, but hey, that's why Oprah loves you! Your masterpiece is "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", or at least you think it is.
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Maya may seem "not very daring or original" now - what, almost 40 years after her breakout? Maybe Johnny Carson and Bill Cosby don't either. But that doesn't mean they weren't.
As an adolescent, I opened one of her books in the library and the first line my eyes fell upon was "Picking undigested beans from yesterday's shit" - a jarring line in a poem about the horrors of poverty. Seemed daring and original to me at the time.... And though I've only read that poem once, around 1980, it's stuck with with me since. I also remember getting chill bumps when I heard her read her poetic invocation at Bill Clinton's inauguration. Not saying she's always brilliant, because she's not (who is?) - but I don't think the quiz creator does her justice. For that matter, he doesn't do Dylan Thomas justice either.
This from a guy who also knows "why the caged bird sings"....
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LOL JOHN!! WHY DO YOU SING?? BECAUSE YOU NEVER WENT TO SINGSING. THAT IS FAR BEHIND YOUR HORIZON.
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This is what I got:
Your Score: Dylan Thomas!You scored 70 Demeanour, 54 Debauchery, 70 Traditionalism, and 70 Expression!
Man! Do you love to party or what! If it's not fun, you probably haven't done it in a while. But that doesn't mean you're not serious about some things. You are a person with deep passions and a respect for beauty and craft. The world is a better place for having you in it. Too bad you won't be around that long. Drink up! You're masterpiece is "Under Milkwood".
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Another Dylan!
Thanks for sharing your results, Kimberly!
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You want results and that's what I gave you
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that poem is where i fashioned this line from Now Zen:
There ain't no dark night's ungentle light.
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Yeah, Smith, I agree. Dark nights and dark knights are usually gentle and give out lights, at least matches or bics to light our way stumbling along paths that lead to somewhere in our jungles' nights.
I dig Zen in the NOW.
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I dig your "Now Zen," Smith. One of my favorites of yours... and thanks again for giving me permission to use it in the near future.
I also dig Zen NOW, Elena, though my first thought was that they were two different things. Then I remembered these words from my poem John Cage Engaged and Uncaged:
"And there is no disharmony
Only harmonies to which our ears
(my dears and our fears)
Are unaccustomed."
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I also get Dylan Thomas. I've actually taken a similar test on another site, and got the same result, too. Guess that means it's true. LOL I'd write a more competent response if not for the fact that I am completely blitzed. Shit, at this point my only hope if that I spelled stuff right...
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Your response is competent enough for me.
Thanks for stopping by and "partying" with us Dylan Thomases and other assorted poets!
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In retrospect, it is pretty darn fitting that I should pop in and write a comment, professing my similarity to a partying poet, while completely drunk from partying.
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Absolutely perfect....
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Oh, I know I am. But, it's nice to hear anyway. ;-P
Okay, maybe I'm still a bit drunk. I'm can be a bit cocky, when I'm buzzed.lol
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Hahaha!
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I got Dylan Thomas too. And I scored 90 for expression. I love to party and used to do that a lot. These days all of the parties I go to involve cake, balloons and Disney princesses. My how times change!
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lol... thanks for stopping by, Tara!
I guess if I count the ones involving cake, balloons, and cartoon characters, I've been one heck of a partier these past few years as well.
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You scored 62 Demeanour, 54 Debauchery, 66 Traditionalism, and 70 Expression!
Man! Do you love to party or what! If it's not fun, you probably haven't done it in a while. But that doesn't mean you're not serious about some things. You are a person with deep passions and a respect for beauty and craft. The world is a better place for having you in it. Too bad you won't be around that long. Drink up! You're masterpiece is "Under Milkwood".
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Thanks for visiting my blog and sharing your results, Sid!
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i guess i'm the oddball because i got tagged e.e.cummings. 66 demeanour, 68 debauchery, 45 traditionalism, 90 expressionism. to be honest, i've never been much of an e.e. fan, but i do have an aversion to capitalization...hmmm?
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lol... I do love e.e. - though for me he was a bit of an acquired taste.
I greatly appreciate you stopping by and sharing!
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