1. Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas
While there are a lot of poems I appreciate, I learned to appreciate this one from Rodney Dangerfield, specifically his movie Back to School:
People think of comedians as funny, but truly great comedy is philosophical, and Dangerfield shows this by capturing the meaning of this poem perfectly, albeit humorously.
2. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
I tend to prefer more positive poetry, but Poe's darkness is sublime. The Raven is arguably his best example of it, as a first person poetic account of a man whose love, Lenore, has died, and his grief is as eternal as his love for her was.
3. The Charge Of The Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
If ever there was a better poem honoring soldiers, I haven't read it. It also has one of my favorite stanzas of any poem:
'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do & die,
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
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