whos a good poet who wrote teenage poetry?

[*MaNgO*]

im supposed to be doing a report on a poet but i dont know many. do u know any good poets who wrote poems for teenagers?

[kalibasa]

Well, it's tough because a lot of poets, even if they're great, tended to have their best stuff later in life; most of these themes, then, would be about time or themes too old for teenagers to really understand. You could consider great teenage poets (Keats died at 17, Coleridge died very young...), but it's probably not the best way.

You know who might actually be a good choice, though? Shakespeare. Some of his sonnets are certainly lovely (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day, etc.), but most of them have themes that would really resonate with a younger audience. Some of them have crude jokes, some are full of sexual tension and confusion, some just reveal the narrator as being very lost and afraid... This may seem like a surprising choice but it would be a really neat way to approach it (it would make people think of Shakespeare differently).

Check out, for example, sonnets 29 (feeling exiled and lost), 147 (confusion in passion/love), and135 (and in this one know that "will" is a three-way pun; will as in willpower, Will=William Shakespeare, and then "will" at the time meant sexual organs... at the least it will make you laugh

[love _poet]

nope srry, all i kno is i am a teenage poet,lol


good luck tho

[Star Man]

Robert Frost may be a good one