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Imagine you're going to jail and you can bring 5 books but they have to be works of poetry.which works would you choose?
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>>7869583
Would you include epics?
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>>7869613
Yeah anything in verse. Prose poetry works too
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>>7869583
Definitely the book of psalms so I can fit in with the idiot bible thumping prisoners and prevent them from shanking me.
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Cantos by Ezra Pound
Kubla Khan by Coleridge
Paradise Loft by Milton
Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire
Leaves of Glass by Walt Whitman
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The Canterbury Tales
The Upanishads
The Book of Job
Songs of Innocence and Experience
The Metamorphoses
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>>7869583
The Cantos
The Bridge
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
Duino Elegies
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>>7869623
-The Complete Works of Shakespeare
-Beowulf in original Old English (gotta assimilate into that codex bruv)
-KJV (gotta dissasimilate out of that codex bruv)
-"Is Homer poetry and why don't I give a fuck..." original poem
-unnecessary slot, pick at random
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>>7869583
A book of bob dylan lyrics
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Dante
Juvenal
Odyssey
The Decameron
and if the complete works of Shakespeare count. That
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Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
The Aeneid
Complete Shakespeare
Complete Keats
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>>7869665
Cheers, not read duino Elegies.
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>>7869710
Decameron ain't in verse, fool!
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>>7869715
This, but the Illiad instead of Roman fanfiction
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>>7869646
whitman is shite
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>>7869998
t. undergrad
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I don't have to pretend OP
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>>7869583
Paris Spleen
The Illiad
Paradise Lost
Kubla Khan
Self Portrait in a convex mirror
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