What's your favorite mythological poem?

Question

That someone else wrote.

Answer 1

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Answer 2

I'm sorry but I don't have a favorite.

Answer 3

Cavafy's Ithaka is a wonderfully subtle and multilayered poem. It certainly knows about the Odyssey.  It also inspired Auden's poem Atlantis:

http://cepa.newschool.edu/~wrightd/cavaf...

Marilyn Hacker's Nimue to Merlin, which I don't believe is available on-line, is another classic poem, modernist, which handles mythological material in a timeless manner and which is the only poem which competes with the Cavafy, IMHO for my affection and respect.

Answer 4

The Kalevala