The most interesting poems for college students

Most students should read and be inspired by poetry while in college. After all, poetry can fill with overgrown feelings, excite, give pleasure and simply develop the spirituality of each young man. The themes of the poems are always very diverse, and each student has the freedom to choose something to their taste and desires. Young people can read poems about eternally beautiful feelings - love or hopes, poems about life and social phenomena, or even feminist poetry.

The variety of topics of the poems is simply amazing, it is too difficult to choose from them the best ones for the obligatory reading. Apparently, first of all, students will be interested in reading poems about life, which are the most popular. For many young people, life in college is a very difficult time and period. They often have feelings of fear and anxiety, and the poems are designed to relieve them of such unpleasant feelings. So, what poems about life can be interesting for students most of all? They definitely would like “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” by Amiri Baraka, “Starfish” by Eleanor Lerman, “Dust” by Dorianne Laux, “Making a Fist” by Naomi Shihab Nye, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick, “The Rolling Saint” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, “To Those of You Alive in the Future” by Dean Young.

In a case, if college students would like to get to know more about popular and interesting poems and their authors they can visit Gradesfixer and find there more exciting and useful information about American poetry and different poets.

Another topic in poetry that students also enjoy is social justice and contemporary events. Poets in their lyrics often tell about the events. And young people, respectively, reading such lyrics can gain interesting knowledge in poetic form about real events. Such topic can be found in the following poems: “The Diameter of the Bomb” by Yehuda Amichai, “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats, “America” by Allen Ginsberg, “10-Year-Old Shot Three Times, But She’s Fine” by Patricia Smith, “Who Said It Was Simple” by Audre Lorde, “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes.

The topic of love, which is an eternal theme, has always been and will be presented in poems that students love so much. After all, this topic is close to them and they are very impressed. Young people are just in great shape when they just want to love. Although the bitter experience of unrequited love is also known to students. The best poems about love can be these ones: “Having a Coke With You” by Frank O’Hara, “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams, “First Memory” by Louise Glück, “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, “Postcard from the Heartbreak Hotel” by John Brehm, “Movement Song” by Audre Lorde and many others.

The mentioned poems are not the whole list that will be interesting for young people. Poetry is an incredible world of the artistic world, which constantly arouses students' interest and makes them fall in love with this art of the word.

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