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Ten American Poets Everyone Should Read
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This is just a list of poets that I think every American should read as they really encapsulate the American Spirit, for good or ill. In parenthesis are two favorite poems by each poet. Enjoy!
| 1. | Edgar Allan Poe (Annabel Lee or The Raven) |
| 2. | Walt Whitman (Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night or O Captain My Captain) |
| 3. | Robert Frost (Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening or the Road Less Traveled) |
| 4. | T.S. Eliot (The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock or the Hollow Men) |
| 5. | Langston Hughes (Harlem Sweeties or Let America be America Again) |
| 6. | Theodore Roethke (Elegy for Jane or My Papa's Waltz) |
| 7. | Sylvia Plath (Cut or Daddy) |
| 8. | Shel Silverstein (Where The Sidewalk Ends or Forgotten Language) |
| 9. | Emily Dickinson (#465 "I heard a fly buzz when I died" or #241 I like a look of Agony) |
| 10. | Alan Ginsberg (Howl or To Aunt Rose) |
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