Recently, for World Poetry Day, we asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to share their favourite poems and why they love them so much. Here are some of the best responses:
1. "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou.

2. "An Unfortunate Choice" by Wendy Cope.

3. "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas.

4. "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

5. "Resumé" by Dorothy Parker.

6. "When the Fat Girl Gets Skinny" by Blythe Baird.

7. "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

8. "The Tyger" by William Blake.

9. "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats.

10. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost.

11. "The Shirt" by Jane Kenyon.

12. "[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]" by E.E. Cummings.

13. "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou.

14. "Sonnet 130" by William Shakespeare.

15. "For Women Who Are Difficult' to Love" by Warsan Shire.

16. "If–" by Rudyard Kipling.

17. "oh yes" by Charles Bukowski.

18. "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII" by Pablo Neruda.

20. "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe.

21. "The Stolen Child" by W. B. Yeats.

22. "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley.

23. "Afternoons" by Philip Larkin.

24. "People" by D. H. Lawrence.

25. "Embarrassed" by Hollie McNish.

26. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot.

27. "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen.

Note: Some entries were edited for length and/or clarity.