How are some good poems that depict violence in stark and interesting ways?
I've already read Homer and Ovid
Sir Gawain and the Greentexter.
Some books of the Bible too (e.g. the Book of Job, the Psalms, the book of Lamentations, etc).
First World War poetry.
The Aeneid.
The Faerie Queene.
>>8287261
thanks! will check out the faerie queen
>>8287206
Leda and the Swan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4CJ7h3mX4Q
The Song of Roland is nowadays mostly known for it.
>>8287261
What's the best way to get into WWI poetry? An anthology?
>>8287501
Probably. Lots of WW1 poets like John McCrae are only known for a single poem like ' In Flanders Fields '.
rap (rhythm and poetry) is the most violent and transgressive of all poetry. It is objectively more complex than the greatest poetry of the past.
>>8287519
Have any recs?
>>8287526
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRyPFYC4B8Q
This is the highest form of art.
>>8287526
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn8ai8viqLI
futurism
>>8289224
those are p neat, thanks.
>>8287519
What's your rubric for objective complexity? If you're judging based on meter, voice, or other traditional statistical plugs for complexity measures, it falls way short from most epic meters and obviously modernism giants
Alliterative Morte Arthure
>>8287261
>>8287501
>>8287514
>Tim Kendall - Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology
https://u.pomf.is/yhqvck.epub
>The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent. Its poets mark the conflict in ways that are both intensely personal and as enduring as any monument. Their lines have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and consequences of war.
>This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets and offers a fresh assessment of the work on the centenary of the Great War's outbreak. Focusing on the poets themselves, the book is organized by writer, not theme or chronology. It offers generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Rupert Brooke, whilst also incorporating less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. It also includes two previously unpublished poems by Ivor Gurney.
>A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context.
>Although the War has now passed out of living memory, its haunting of our language and culture has not been exorcised. Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us
>>8289238
I was baiting, Anon.
I based it on some idiot on /lit/ that takes this crap seriously and occasionally comes over from circlejerking on /mu/ to make a 'hip hop is REEL poetry' thread.
>>8289768
Thanks a lot, anon!
