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What Is Your Favourite Poem Of All Time?

Are you a Shakespeare, Plath, or Amanda Gorman fan?

Sam Cleal
by Sam Cleal

BuzzFeed Staff

It's World Poetry Day on Sunday, so we want to know – what's your favourite poem of all time?

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Maybe you like something comical and sweet, like Wendy Cope's "The Orange"?

At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave They got quarters and I had a half
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Or maybe you prefer a nice sonnet like Keats's "Bright Star"?

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart Like nature's patient sleepless Eremite
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Maybe Audre Lorde's "Generation II" is more your preference for poetry?

A Black girl going into the woman her mother desired and prayed for walks alone and afraid of both their angers
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Or perhaps you love Stevie Smith's classic elegy "Not Waving but Drowning"?

Nobody heard him, the dead man But still he lay moaning I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning
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Whatever it may be, tell us your favourite poem and WHY you love it in the comments below and you could be featured in a future BuzzFeed Community post or video!