What is your favorite work of poetry?
>>8185081
my diary desu senpai
10 Crack Commandments by Smalls, Biggie
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Would Paradise Lost count?
I do love some of the story's in Metamorphosis though.
>>8185081
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
(haven't read much poetry though)
God's Father by Lil B.
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Sea and the Mirror by Auden
Or the posthumous "More Poems" by Housman
Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware, Beware
Out of the ashes, I rise
With my red hair
And I eat men like AIR
>>8185223
>With my red hair
>And I eat men like AIR
now, and it was not considered a moon-june-spoon type of rhyme because the freaking silvia plath wrote it
quod licet jovi, non licet bovi
american poets past poe and longfellow are hacks
>>8185227
What is your point, exactly?
>>8185227
stop posting retard
I don't know but I can tell you what the biggest meme poem is
started with the and ends with raven
>>8185441
The abominable Wes Craven?
>>8185227
>tripfag on an anonymous board trying to rant about hacks
Ozymandias
>>8185501
the japs did it better.
>>8185081
The Tower by Yeats or Personae by Pound.
>>8185227
>american poets past poe and longfellow are hacks
>Wallace Stevens is a hack
>Ezra Pound is a hack
>William Carlos Williams is a hack
>Hart Crane is a hack
>John Ashbery is a hack
Go back to whatever board you came from, pseud.
>>8185441
My Immortal?
Emily Dickinson's shit i guess
That and Leaves of Grass, though ive had waves where i passionately hated that thing. shits rambly and boring and poorly written, bur i think thats kinda the point.
Die Bürgschaft by Schiller.
I cried the first time I heard it.
There's just so many parts where the emotion is palatable, especially the panic Damon feels as he's running up and down the riverbank- it get's me everytime.
Iliad, of course. When I'm 40 it will be the Odyssey.
>>8185618
wow your entire post is awful and senseless
>>8185081
Sunflower Sutra by Ginsberg.
Tell me a line make it easy for me
Open your arms
Dance with me until I feel all right
It's good in the dark, good in the dark
But into the lover's light
Here comes another fight
So ring the alarm, ring the alarm
Bar me and hold me and cling to my arm
Here it comes, here it comes
And what you're asking me now, disastrous now
Hoping and hoping and hoping
The feeling goes away
Never change, never change, never change, never change
Never change, never change, never change
This is why I fell in love
Never change, never change, never change, never change
Never change, never change, never change
That's just too up there in love with
This is the time the very best time
So give me a line and take me home
Take me over
But dashing the hopes dashing the hopes
And smashing the pride
The morning's got you on the ropes
And love is a murderer, love is a murderer
But if she calls you tonight
Everything is all right
Yeah, we know
And love is a curse shoved in a hearse
Love is an open book to a verse of your bad poetry
And this is coming from me
But I can change, I can change, I can change, I can change
I can change, I can change, I can change
If it helps you fall in love
Turn on the light make it easy for me
Fill the divide fumble in the kitchen
Til it's right
What an awful sight
But there's love in your eyes
Love in your eyes, love in your eyes
But maybe that's just what your lover finds
All night!
But I can change, I can change, I can change, I can change
I can change, I can change, I can change
If it helps you fall in love
>>8185236
isn't it clear? i think my post couldn't be clearer in what my point was
on a side note, it reminded me tennyson's kraken, lol:
>Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
>Then once by men and angels to be seen,
>In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
now, tennyson was a real poet
>>8185573
>Wallace Stevens is a hack
ok, he wrote a nice poem about ice cream
>Ezra Pound is a hack
hack, even lovecraft scolded jews better in his letters
>William Carlos Williams is a hack
literally who unknown outside of the usa
>Hart Crane is a hack
literally who known for appearing on the blowjob eyes macro on 4chan /lit/
>John Ashbery is a hack
literally who unknown outside of the usa
>>8187841
Don't you have summer reading you should be doing
eugene onegin
Probably the strongest emotion I've felt from a poem came from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens. It gives me chills as well as a weird, subtle, feeling of dread and I have no idea why...
paradise lost
>>8187853
now, tell me how my criticism of plath is not valid and it's certainly not a forced rhyme there which she could get away with because reasons
>>8187841
>i dont actually read: the post
Just stop
Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke
>>8187885
why
>>8187841
How about you actually read them before you spout stupid shit about them. Better yet, how about you go back to whatever board you came from and, for all of our benefit, stay there.
>>8187841
I thought you were an at least passable tripfag, now I know you're a pseud. Goodbye.
>>8185111
nice trips
>Metamorphoses
>>8188028
What I would have said.
Based.
I really like Dream Record: June 8th, 1955 by Ginsberg. It's probably my favorite right now.
Self Portrait In A Convex Mirror is probably my single favorite poem
Piers Plowman
anything by wallace stevens.
why does /lit/ suck with poetry?
Love poetry by the likes of Sappho and Catullus
Sappho
And how you laugh your charming laugh. Why it
makes my heart flutter within my breast,
because the moment I look at you, right then, for me,
to make any sound at all won’t work any more
Catullus
To sit where I can see your face
And hear your laughter come and go Is greater bliss than all the gods
Can ever know.
The bright dream carries me away:
Watching your lips, your hair, your cheek
I have so many things to say,
Yet cannot speak. I look, I listen, and my soul Flame
>>8188742
>loving Sappho
pseudo poetry fan detected. how can you love someone whos work only survives in tiny fragments
>>8188466
i actually visited lit for a while, lit was better back then... it's so pale now, deserted and inhabited by you
but everybody still loves these free style american poets as a good victim of american education should and still cannot stand strong opinions
honestly, your list is pretty lacking, you mentioned three literally whos, didn't mention carl sandburg and t.s. elliot, leaving aside whitman (though whitman is of longfellow times); but at least you didn't mention somebody like langston hughes muh nigga poet nigga can be a poet just like mista white, and also you didn't mention emily dickinson muh feminism a spinster writing random ramblings can be a poet too poet, so you are not completely lost... though dickinson is of longfellow times so maybe you didn't mention her for that reason while actually you worship her poetry
Should I read Rimbaud with the English translations or just not bother
>>8188817
right, so anyone who ever says they admire or love Sappho is a pseud, because her work exists in fragments. You are a retard.
>>8188903
admire, sure. you can't love something that essentially exists only as a concept.
>>8188931
>the surviving fragments are concrete
the surviving fragments are insignificant
>>8185081
The Iliad
English: John Milton, Paradise Lost
German: Rilke, Duino Elegies
Latin: Virgil, Aeneid
Ancient Greek: Homer, Iliad
>>8188941
they may be insignificant to you, a lonely loveless virgin, but to me, there is something captivating about a poet from 2800 years ago writing love poetry that accurately conveys sentiments which i might have written myself, that makes it possible to 'love' her poetry, even if it only exists in fragments.
>>8188883
>honestly, your list is pretty lacking, you mentioned three literally whos
Admitting to never reading them is not a very good argument against their greatness.
>didn't mention carl sandburg and t.s. elliot
Forgot about Eliot; and I'm man enough to say I haven't read Sandburg, so I ain't saying shit about him.
>didn't mention somebody like langston hughes muh nigga poet nigga can be a poet just like mista white, and also you didn't mention emily dickinson muh feminism a spinster writing random ramblings can be a poet too poet
You think in memes, don't you?
As a whole, you seem like someone who would be better off leaving 4chan completely--it's had a profoundly negative effect on you, as a person and as a reader, and it'll only get worse.
fuck brows, this Kerouac poem still does it for me
>>8188899
>Should I read Rimbaud with the English translations or just not bother
Poetry pleb here.
I can't say I overly enjoyed reading him in English
>>8187901
It's a forced rhyme that she got away with because it fits.
>>8188817
>greek culture was pseud as a whole
>ctrl+f Faust
>0 results.
Pleebs.
Tennyson's "Ulysses"
Mainly because I read The Odyssey in senior year at high school, but also due to the scene in Skyfall where M reads the final lines aloud. That, married with the use of some glorious scores sends chills down my spine.
If you haven't seen it: https://youtu.be/ptqoSZgh7q8?t=76
>>8189781
btw, don't take my banter too serious
i have some grudge against american poets though because they overuse free style and it's one of the reasons why poetry is in decline imo
p.s. i still find it amusing that it took me a couple of readings to understand that she actually doesn't write about a leviathan/kraken like lord tennyson did
>>8189872
Do you like Ralph Waldo Emerson? He's my favorite American poet.
>>8185155
This and The Hollow Men
I cross the room
to the last wall
the last window
the last pink sun
with its arm around the world
with its arms around me
I hear the death-whisper of the heron
the bone-thoughts of sea-things
that are almost rock;
this screen caved like a soul
and scrawled with flies,
my tensions and damnations
are those of a pig,
pink sun pink sun
I hate your holiness
crawling your gilded cross of life
as my fingers and feet and face
come down to this
sleeping with the whore of your fancy wife
you must some day die for nothing
as I
have lived.
Brodsky's A Part of Speech.
Joyce's Chamber Music.
Nabokov's Poems and Problems.
I'm a pleb when it comes to poetry tho, haven't read much of it and can't tell a good poem from a bad one.
I'm a bit of a poetry pleb although I'm slowly working my way out of that through this board
My dad read Prufrock, The Waste Land and The Hollow Men to me as a kid to get me to sleep, so they've stuck with me as favourites for now
>>8189900
i like his "uriel"
i also wonder if it affected frank long when he wrote "the hounds of tindalos" (it has a geometric conflict of angles and curves as its core), considering that he quotes a poem from "the book of jade" in his "the space-eaters" he probably had some interest in poetry and likely read emerson
well, emerson by the conflict of the line and the round meant a conflict of the linear time and the eternal recurrence since lines do exist in nature and even were mentioned by uriel himself - sunbeams, rays, but still
>>8185618
I'll never understand what people see in Dickinson.
>>8189872
>overuse free style and it's one of the reasons why poetry is in decline imo
free verse has nothing to do with poetry being "in decline" but I'm curious as to why you think this.
>>8190014
>My dad read Prufrock, The Waste Land and The Hollow Men to me as a kid to get me to sleep
Nothing like a lighthearted read to send a kid to dreamland...
