Here is a list of some of the top poets of the 20th century. I recommend that you read their work.
– Maya Angelou
– Hilaire Belloc
– William Blake
– Lewis Carrol
– Emily Dickinson
– Robert Frost
– Langston Hughes
– Issa
– Edward Lear
– Eve Merriam
– Jack Prelutsky
– Edgar Allan Poe
– Christian Rossetti
– Carl Sandburg
– Robert Louis Stevenson
– Walt Whitman
– William Carlos Williams