The most important poets to me personally have been Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, and Langston Hughes, That is not to negate the works of all the other great writers whose work remains truthful and undiluted. There is confusion that lurks within some writers own minds to the point that thier wit is left as meaningless. Though they are well acclaimed, how much does a T.S. Elliot confuse rather than enlighten. The measure of greatness for the poet is to what degree you are left to understand the authors emotion or to perhaps be enlightened as to your own. Words that are too mu more...