What are some of your favorite poems?
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Er, nah. I don't care for poetry.

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My absolute favourite is Maud: A Monodrama by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Since it's a long piece, I'll just post the beginining here:

PART I

I.

    I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood,
    Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-red heath,
    The red-ribb’d ledges drip with a silent horror of blood,
    And Echo there, whatever is ask’d her, answers ‘Death.’

II.

    For there in the ghastly pit long since a body was found,
    His who had given me life–O father! O God! was it well?–
    Mangled, and flatten’d, and crush’d, and dinted into the ground:
    There yet lies the rock that fell with him when he fell.