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Old 05-01-2004, 08:12 AM
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Word/Author Associatin: Poets

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Anyone want to stretch their memory on poets? Same rules as Bridgette set up: the first ten poets that come to mind.

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Re: Word/Author Associatin: Poets

1. John Donne
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Mark Doty
4. Joy Harjo
5. Thom Gunn
6. Paul Mariah
7. Robert Frost
8. Adrienne Rich
9. A. E. Housman
10. Jorie Graham
 
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Re: Word/Author Associatin: Poets

1. Edmund Spenser
2. Linda Pastan
3. Sharon Olds
4. Rainer Maria Rilke
5. Langston Hughes
6. Edna St. Vincent Millay
7. Sylvia Plath
8. William Stafford
9. Carolyn Kizer
10. Seamus Heaney
 
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Re: Word/Author Associatin: Poets

Ogden Nash
Karl Shapiro
Edward Lear
Stevie Smith
Edgar Allan Poe
Dorothy Parker
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rose Fyleman
Carl Sandburg
Langston Hughes
 
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Re: Word/Author Associatin: Poets

W.H. Auden
Shakespeare
Elizabeth Browning
Edgar Allan Poe
e.e. cummings
Adrienne Rich
Emily Dickinson
William Wordsworth
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
 
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Re: Word/Author Associatin: Poets

Having just done the poetry word association, this is a little easier than it would have been otherwise.

1. William Wordsworth
2. Blake
3. Emily Dickinson
4. Sylvia Plath
5. James Thurber
6. Henry David Thoraeu
7. Shakespeare
8. Milton
9. Homer
10. Marlowe
 
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