Ferlinghetti

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/don-t-let-that-horse/

For my poet I basically just chose the person with the coolest sounding name and that happened to be Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He was an American poet born in 1919. His poetic movement was beat poetry. 

Don't let that horse

Don't let that horse
eat that violin

cried Chagall's mother

But he
kept right on
painting

And became famous

And kept on painting
The Horse With Violin In Mouth

And when he finally finished it
he jumped up upon the horse
and rode away
waving the violin

And then with a low bow gave it
to the first naked nude he ran across


And there were no strings
attached 

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I think that this poem was talking about how Chagall didn’t listen to what others said and how they said not to do it and he became a successful artist. The poem has not structure or even rhyme scheme. It also feels like a thought straight out of his head, unchanged, unedited. Which I feel is what he thinks people should be.