/lit/ - Literature

I think you're going about this a bit too rigidly.

I consider meter less important, and less accessible, as a means to unravel the meaning of verse than symbol, for several reasons - I'll name the chief of these.

A poem is meant to be read - and felt. If one is reading a poem, you are meant to feel the flow of it's verse. This is highly intuitive, not analytical. The analysis of formal metrical structures is the pastime of poets and students of poetry, but it is not the natural way of reading a poem.

Also, a change in meter does not "produce" meaning, nor does it "evoke" meaning. Rather the poet's intention is to bring the reader into a sort of rhythmic trance, wherein he may weave his imaginations, and by breaking that rhythm, call attention to the moment of it's breaking within the lines of verse; however, the meaning lies, not in the broken rhythm, but in the symbolic prose of the poem.

That said, there are poets and times when a broken rhythm is itself a symbol.

It may be more helpful to demonstrate the means of an analysis of symbolic imagery of poems - beginning with this, indeed simple, piece of poetry.

Should this thread remain, I would love to contribute. At present, I must say good night.

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>>9710026 (OP)
I don't care about what gender or race an author is, save in its relevance to the discussion they shall embark upon. Otherwise, I care only for topics of discussion and an author's ability to converse.

If you refuse to read an author based on their race or gender, you are a pseud. It should be the topic of discussion and what they have to say which leads your interest.

Encouraging people to "Read less straight white men," is basically a campaign to revel in ignorance, for, even the translations of foreign geniuses into English will most likely have been done by a straight white man.

Honestly, what does sexual preference have to do with intellect anyway? This is one prominent reason I consider most homosexuals, trans, and non-binaries shallow. For most of them, sex is always at the center of affairs - a true perversion of intellect.

Likewise, for anyone who lives in Europe or North America, you're essential arguing for a disconnect from one's own cultural, linguistic, and scholastic heritage - an absolutely ludicrous and barbaric notion. One which tells me you lack understanding in what brings cultural cohesion to a people. Rather, you should be encouraging immigrants and minorities dwelling in historically Anglo regions to read more straight, white men.

I consider cultural studies, especially literary ones, to be of immense value to all involved, however, the onus is on the immigrant to appropriate the culture of the native and not the reverse. Otherwise, the migrant is no migrant but an invader who should be sent soundly packing.

In any case, the last WoC I've read is Tracy K. Smith, the current Poet Laureate of the United States of America, I believe (that she is the last WoC I read, that is). I like her, as a person. I am unsure, however, how I feel about her poetry. I'd like to spend more time ruminating on it.

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>>9293103
I love poetry too. I don't write often, but I read it voraciously.

Keep at it, friend.

>>6727167
gr8 b8 m8

wordsworth byron shelley milton spenser tennyson yeats (irish but W/e) keats Eliot (shut up yanks he was a naturalised brit) donne auden coleridge browning clare kipling hopkins graves betjemin

The english may not be the best painters or musicians but nobody can doubt the linguistic supremacy of this meager island