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Share your favourite love poem!
Any language is OK, feel free to translate it into English if you wish.
My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me,
you dirty little girl,
and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter.
I am delighted to see that you
do like being fucked arseways. Yes,
now I can remember that night when I fucked you
for so long backwards.
It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling.
My prick was stuck in you for hours,
fucking in and out under your upturned rump.
I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly
and saw your flushed face and mad eyes.
At every fuck I gave you your shameless...
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Love looks not with the eyes... (William Shakespeare)
>>7676352
the ecstasy by donne is the single greatest love poem ever written and if you disagree with me you're blatantly incorrect
I consider myself a fairly grateful, humble, hard working and generally well rounded individual.
I am 23 years old, have worked an office job for five years, and owned my own house for two.
I have always aspired towards becoming a writer, in the same way a 5 year old wants to be an astronaut, or a truck driver.
I have never considered myself a true writer, and do not hold my work in high esteem.
Regardless of all this, in the last six months I have been becoming increasingly depressed within my life, specifically, with my job.
This caused my...
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Just be born rich and have your parents pay for everything haha
>>7676326
Boo hoo I own a house and have a stable job boo hoo wahhh
I'm 19 years old.
I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.
I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.
I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.
I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.
Both my parents are alive and in good health.
I...
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Looking for books along this line of thought.
>inb4 back to r/dicksuckersanonymous
>>7676300
American Psycho.
bernays propaganda
>>7676300
>advertising executive
>the best way he can think of to relay his message is an image of his face with too much white text without a border that would make it readable
I'm confident that this man has never sold me anything
>Oh, Anna, your erotico-dexterousness is accelerating me towards a hyper-dynamic circuit of dedidactic pleasure-intensification and orgasmico-masculine sexual culmination!
What did he mean by this?
> i am cum
>>7676480
90's Nick Land:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXd20B2Oj5U
>>7676670
RHODESIA
What are your 3 favourite poems? I need to analyse 3 poems and I don't know which ones to do
please no edgy ones
>>7676222
sonnet 20!
Der Erlkönig
>>7676222
Hard to pick favorites, but here are 3 I like. I'm not including any long ones since you probably prefer to analyze shorter poems. These are relatively easy poems to analyze too.
The Journey of the Magi - Eliot
Birches - Frost
My Last Duchess - Browning
What do you think of this concept for a short play:
A farce about four players performing three plays from the career of a fictional playwright. The three plays vary in style and show the progression of the playwright's life.
anything can be good.
>>7676622
Is what I have now good?
>>7677020
No.
Currently reading pic related. Comfiest book ever.
How so?
>>7677706
It's a garden party.
>>7678783
after they run away from death and moral chaos.
the stories themselves are rather trite.
Does this passage from a Robert Frost story accurately describe New Englanders?
>>7676105
No idea, but I do know that walls or fences work really well in forcing tenants of large areas of land to get along together.
>>7676105
Never been to New England but I'll take Bob's word for it.
>>7676105
I've felt, recently, this passage best describes the dictionary entry for neighbors.
Do I need to have read The Iliad first in order to read The Odyssey or can I read it on its own?
Kindof, but you can get away by having some general knowledge of the events. Just skim wikipedia, and remember the Horse wasn't actually in the Iliad.
>>7676094
The Horse wasn't in the Iliad? I wasn't aware.
>>7676086
You can read it on its own but you should read the Iliad anyway
What are the best publishing houses ? Are more expensive editions such as those offered by Folio worth buying ?
>>7676069
Random house Vintage books have nice covers.
>>7676069
Folio has some good stuff, but mostly their books are riddled with god-awful illustrations
That said, their edition of Grapes of Wrath is wonderful, though they don't seem to sell it anymore
I have a pronunciation question for UK anons.
Do people normally use this pronunciation?
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gap#English
Because the vowel quality I'm hearing is much more like:
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gap#Polish
(Deep-throated frogginess aside)
Because when I think about a really toffee-nosed accent, "gap" sounds more like "ghep" than like the UK pronunciation above. I can hardly tell the difference between the Polish "gap" and the RP "gap," but the toff RP "gap" sounds very distinct. Is...
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>>7675985
(Overall point is the pronunciation of the /ae/ vowel, not just the word gap.)
Gap rhymes with
Nap, bap, lap, yap, cap, sap, tap, rap, map, zap
It does not rhyme with pep, rep,
Nah nobody says gep in England
What would one gain if they tried to read through Bloom's Western canon without a good base in critical reading*?? Does something like this develop naturally or would it just be a huge waste of time?
To Bloom it is less waste of time than the books he considers a waste of time since it is an art form and to him the elite art form. It is the artfulness of it that makes it wasteful, so those that are not artful are worthless.
Simply, you gain an appreciation for the art.
>>7675970
What do you plan on doing, read a book on critical reading?
How would you read it properly and get anything out of it if you are unable to read it critically?
>>7676182
I don't know. I think it was a stupid question
I just worry about my reading comprehension, I started reading books three years ago
What are some quotes/verse that every cultivated English speaker knows ?
I was thinking of things such as simple as "nevermore" in The Raven.
it was the worst of times, it was the best of times, ...
i am become death
to be or not to be
Arse full of farts
>>7675955
Do you think the archangel Gabriel
thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly and
respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance?
Who ain’t a slave? Tell me that
ITT: Good poetry
I am not my grandmother or my mother
Although they are flowing into me
Into me, I am not them
And I will not take this beating
Beating down like the rain
Beating down like the rain
Without a sound
>>7675882
you start
>>7675882
Kinda lame tbqhwyf. I would post some but I am not a poet. Come up with something that really has something to say instead of something you'd find superimposed over black and white pictures of windows on instagram
>>7675882
I Love (You), Savannah.
How would you feel if a major Hollywood studio picked up all the rights to your favorite author's books, then said they intended to make them into a "cinematic universe"?
>>7675880
I'd be kinda sorry for them. Shit's crazy, it'll be a second Dune.
i'd prob go check out the movies when they come out
