Over at General Talk we're having fun comparing the results of an online quiz that purports to reveal what poet(s) the quiztaker most resembles. People are getting some delightfully incongruent results. For example, I am told that I resemble Tennyson and Maya Angelou. (Of course my first impulse was to try to write a poem that blends the two, but I don't know enough about Angelou and don't have any of her poetry at hand.)
As Len Krisak points out in that thread, the quiz seems to be based entirely on what the poets write about, not on style or technique. So here's my question:
Who are the seemingly unlikely poets between (or among) whom you sense similarities, and why? The similarities can be in content, technique, both, or something else. I think in content, for example, Ginsburg could be Wordsworth after a very big dose of laudanum, both of them straining for transcendence, both feeling that they've been educated out of their innocence and insight, clapped into prison by society, so to speak.
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