was he the peak of western poetry?
no
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>>7746414
>threading your own post in the post itself
jesus...
>>7746415
I SAID /THREAD FAGGOT
DON'T YOU EVER REPLY TO ME AGAIN
>>7746419
not sure if you're being ironic, post-ironic or just newfag
Post a good poem by him.
>>7746409
Auden.
>>7746422
fosterforce officer here, looks like yer standard first n third
why does /lit/ have such a hard-on for him when 10% of you at best can read him without translation
>>7746483
that poem of his where he's telling everyone to pack away the world always struck me as very beautiful
>>7746508
Reputation, boypuss, enfant terrible, complete stoppage of poetic output early on in life, dying in thirties. Cult of inflammation and mystery or something like that I guess.
>>7746513
Which?
>>7746508
easy, we read it in translation
>>7746409
http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Bateau.html
This kind of stuff is honestly incredible, I would in no way call him the peak of Western poetry which I don't see how you can not assign to Dante, but it is still absurdly good.
Shittier than Baudelaire, Rilke, Stevens
Sadly you've only limited this to Western poetry. I'll give you a tip though. The peak of poetry died in the 1980s in China and left behind an unfinished poem that combines elements of Nietzsche, high Mysticism, Taoism, multiple voices, and some of the most powerful and rigorous cosmic and natural imagery out there. See if you can find him.
>>7746567
>The peak of poetry died in the 1980s in China and left behind an unfinished poem that combines elements of Nietzsche, high Mysticism, Taoism, multiple voices, and some of the most powerful and rigorous cosmic and natural imagery out there. See if you can find him.
...Who?
>>7746567
Mais quelle tante tu fais, incroyable.
Hp lovecraft wrote better poetry
>>7746597
对不起,我不知道法国语
>>7746567
Godammit don't be a cocktease
>>7746619
没关系
>>7746567
You're really not going to give the poet?
>>7746663
This is the epigraph of the poem
北冥有鱼,其名为鲲,鲲之大,不知其几千里也。化而为鸟,其名为鹏,鹏之背,不知其几千里也;怒而飞,其翼若垂天之云。
——庄子
>>7746597
>look at me I know french
fag...
>>7746714
>look at me, I know Englisch!
fagott.
He was the peak of my erection to be honest. ;)
>>7746670
Godammit man
>>7746746
如果你不知道谁是海子,那是你的问题。
>>7746758
海子还可以。像一个中国版的TSEliot/EzraPound.
死的太早了,否则应该有更成熟的作品。
>>7746774
所以他像Rimbaud一样。
但我真正的意见是Stevens还是Rilke比他们两个还好。
>>7746567
you mean he died in 1972 in Italy, but yeah, Pound was really the peak of (western) poetry
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>>7746409
nah
>>7746409
Nah, Crane owns his pansy ass
The tarantula rattling at the lily’s foot
Across the feet of the dead, laid in white sand
Near the coral beach—nor zigzag fiddle crabs
Side-stilting from the path (that shift, subvert
And anagrammatize your name)—No, nothing here
Below the palsy that one eucalyptus lifts
In wrinkled shadows—mourns.
And yet suppose
I count these nacreous frames of tropic death,
Brutal necklaces of shells around each grave
Squared off so carefully. Then
To the white sand I may speak a name, fertile
Albeit in a stranger tongue. Tree names, flower names
Deliberate, gainsay death’s brittle crypt. Meanwhile
The wind that knots itself in one great death—
Coils and withdraws. So syllables want breath.
But where is the Captain of this doubloon isle
Without a turnstile? Who but catchword crabs
Patrols the dry groins of the underbrush?
What man, or What
Is Commissioner of mildew throughout the ambushed senses?
His Carib mathematics web the eyes’ baked lenses!
Under the poinciana, of a noon or afternoon
Let fiery blossoms clot the light, render my ghost
Sieved upward, white and black along the air
Until it meets the blue’s comedian host.
Let not the pilgrim see himself again
For slow evisceration bound like those huge terrapin
Each daybreak on the wharf, their brine-caked eyes;
—Spiked, overturned; such thunder in their strain!
And clenched beaks coughing for the surge again!
Slagged of the hurricane—I, cast within its flow,
Congeal by afternoons here, satin and vacant.
You have given me the shell, Satan,—carbonic amulet
Sere of the sun exploded in the sea.
>>7746409
That's not Ezra Pound.
>>7746816
我个人还是更喜欢Eliot。
Stevens满不错,可我对Rilke从来没什么感觉
How do I into Pound's ouevre? I know you can't just start with the Cantos, what are his best works and his most accessible ones?
>>7747067
Chronologically is probably the best, since his style became more and more difficult to understand as he aged.
>>7746567
who is it?
>>7746530
Now i'm not one to fully embrace the >translations meme, but really, reading poetry in translation is completely pointless.
>>7747083
Ezra Pound and Tomas Tranströmer would both disagree with you.
>>7747090
great post senpai
i like wha tthis article has to say about the issue http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2011/11/30/translating-dark/
>>7747148
Googled "Hai zi unfinished poem" and it sounds like "The Sun." Got a link to that?
>>7747286
http://www.readers365.com/haizi/index.htm
>>7747346
-_-"
>>7746409
nah, he was pretty transphobic
>>7747714
Leave.
>>7749010
Still here fagbag
>poetry
>peaking
confirmed for not understanding poetry
>>7749023
How does it feel being a defect of nature?
>>7749044
what is nature?
Mallarmé would be a far more logical choice, at least for French poetry
No, ezra pounded his ass
>>7746409
>not posting Charles Baudelaire
go jack off to the Doors or something.
Shakespeare
