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I don't get poets.

They are just writers of short texts representing insights into being human, aren't they?

I feel you have to read a lot of peoples to find one to take home with you. To find one worth remembering. Thus it seems perceived quality of poets just directly correlates to how much you agree with the poets personal opinions about things.
Or are there actually insights to be gained from such short texts?

Don't get me wrong, I love witty lines, but it's just that it doesn't feel like more than that. Not really worth a genre.

>>8003640
Poetry is about intense, condensed aesthetic experience. It's about being able to use language to illicit emotions in the most compact way possible. Why read a whole novel when every page of poetry contains just as much?

Nicanor Parra, Homero Aridjis.

>>8003311
The Sun Also Rises

The real answer is to read all of his short fiction.

For Whom the Bell Tolls.

If there's one thing I took away from it, it's that I can clean my bowl with a piece of bread.

>>8003318
You'll get that gem from a lot of the Nick Adams stories, too.

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>>8003215
>(embed)

>>8003222
Shit. That'll teach me to just ctrl+v from the last thread.

>>8003222
>weeb

i wish i knew that feel fampai..

>>8003212
>>8003209
samefag

>>8003214
>3 posters

>Any good ideas for an opening sentence?

There you go.

Why are you so gay, OP?

is this gay erotica

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Emerson exudes raw vigour and vitality.

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read the sticky

>>8002802

>patanjali
>essayist

what the

the only good one he wrote

I do not understand.

>>8002641
This. I also like Birth of Tragedy, thoughts on that one?

Sappho is Greek

Catullus
Mainly for reasons already stated.

>>8002595
>>8002596
alright lets not go full retard here. just answer the question

>>8002578
>>8002580

http://pastebin.com/Phw496bh

1 its shit
2 funny
3 a let down on the third line/
>4 saying one word 3 times in a haiku
5 fuck off
6 enjoyable
7 fuck off
8 that makes me pity you
9 cute i like this one
10 fuck off
11 stupid
12 replace the first much with something else
13 creep
14 you need to write a story about a man who is sexually attracted to swans and spends his days in central park
15 fuck off
16 stupid
17 good you asshole, making me review all these poems. wow. dickhead. you're so cool. you wrote the laziest form of poem 50 times to tell me that you actually do shit! you think you're creative? you're garbage. this is all stupid garbage.
18 i bet you think you're so clever
19 i don't care
20 nobody likes haikus
21 literally the maximum you can get from a haiku is "ha"
22 lol so epik & randumb
23 you're worse than an ant fuck off
24 you can't read people as well as you think
25 ok that's clever well done
>26 i've never been to the tundra
27 gay

i'm done, stay out of my prose thread you nosefaced tinydick

Each stanza should be 4 lines and the last one, 8, but pastebin moved the words a bit.

http://pastebin.com/raw/QXmErW2G

>>8002599
thanks

fuck off

>>8002364
glass bead game

>>8002364
handmaid's tale. they are making a tv series about it so you need to read it before that appears otherwise people will think you are only reading it because of the series. and of course it will mean you can knowledgeably point out the discrepancies between the book and the series.

Currently reading Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment (loving it so far).

What I've read already:

> Spiegelman's Maus
> Houellebecq's Submission
> Kafka's The Trial
> McCarthy's The Road
> McCarthy's Child Of God
> Weir's The Martian (it's shit but I felt inclined to read it since somebody gave it to me)
> Melville's Moby Dick
> Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
> Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
> Dante's Divine Comedy
> Steinbeck's Of Mice & Men
> Nabokov's Lolita
> Moore's Watchmen

I have Don Quixote, To The Lighthouse, Blood Meridian, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and some Aristophanes lined up for the Summer.

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I hated Hour of the Star, compared to her other books.

>Death of a salesman-Arthur Miller
>Cathedral-Raymond Carver
>Collected Stories-William Faulkner
>Hunger-Knut Hamsun
>Oblomov-Ivan Goncharov
>Dubliners-James Joyce
>Some stories by Conrad
>Fathers and sons-Turgenev
>El juguete rabioso-Roberto Arlt
>El beso de la mujer araña-Manuel Puig
>Wise Blood-Flannery O'Connor
>El libro de arena-Jorge Luis Borges
>Odyssey-Homer
>Taras Bulba-Nikolai Gogol
>Artificial Paradises-Charles Baudelaire
>Fear and trembling-Sören Kierkegaard
>Apology/Menon/Cratylus-Plato
>Tristram Shandy-Laurence Sterne
>Anabasis-Xenophon
>The violent bear it away-Flannery O'Connor
>Las fuerzas extrañas-Leopoldo Lugones
>Tractatus logico-philosophicus-Ludwing Wittgenstein
>V.-Thomas Pynchon
>Sorrows of Young Werther-J.W. Goethe
>Light in august-William Faulkner
>Violence-Slavoj Zizek
>Under the Volcano-Malcolm Lowry

he's a sage

We don't like racists here

>>8002055
I guess you could describe him as 'cool' and he has 'cool' ideas but he's a terrible writer

read corncob tortilla's "blood on the sand". There's some chip n dip in that one i think

>>8002483
give me the taco name bro.
google doesn't give me anything.

CHI

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the only books that matter

>>8001542
404 literature not found

>>8001542
Only about two or three of those books are literature. They are all comics, manga books, and children's books. I think you're on the wrong board. There's a /co/ board for comics and cartoons. I know this sounds a bit mean but its true.

>>8001317
blood meridian

Either Mason & Dixon or My Ántonia

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I know it gets incredibly fucked at parts, but I just pictured the world so well