/lit/ - Literature

>>19089042
>favorite book from my childhood.
Same, an annoying teacher made my class read a "classic" of our choosing every couple months back in middle school, and I'm really glad I happened to pick this one up. It just felt on another level from the typical action fiction stuff a young boy like me was reading. Although I never bothered with the sequels or movie(s?), which from what I hear might have been for the best. Honestly I need to reread it sometime to refresh my memory and see if I feel the same way now.

It's the first day of spring /lit/ bros! Share your favorite spring poetry/aphorisms.

To Spring - William Blake

O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down
Through the clear windows of the morning, turn
Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,
Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!

The hills tell one another, and the listening
Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turn'd
Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth
And let thy holy feet visit our clime!

Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds
Kiss they perfumed garments; let us taste
Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls
Upon our lovesick land that mourns for thee.

O deck her forth with thy fair fingers; pour
Thy soft kisses on her bosom; and put
Thy golden crown upon her languish'd head,
Whose modest tresses are bound up for thee.

>>17300231
>Not learning the language of every book you want to read and then combining all of that knowledge into some supreme masterpiece that we could call, say, Bennigans Bake
Couldn't be me

Are there any books about ignoring or not caring about your mental health?

>>17063934
The Sound and the Fury

>>16769686
Based and frenpilled. Keep it up champ!

>>16647961
>>16647967
Not Pokemon, but Yugioh was what all the cool kids were trading at my elementary school

Alright, what's everyone working on today? You are at least meeting your daily quota, right?

You are correct in fact. Fiction is the least manly scope of writing.

>Bitch Tier:
>fiction (of any kind)

>Acceptable Tier:
>nonfiction
>reference (civic, commercial, industrial)

>Master Tier
>academic
>philosophy

>>16518907
>CADDY SMELLS LIKE TREES

>>16473863
His voice is even greater than I imagined it. Now I know how to read his work aloud in my head

>>16349738
CADDY SMELLS LIKE TREES

>>16333912
>Yeah, reading is pretty cool. So anyways, I hear that you like sports. What do you play?

>spend years studying the Greeks
>study theology and the history of the early Church
>work my way up to the great modernists
>enjoy the aesthetic prose of Joyce and the gritty stream of consciousness of Faulkner
>put them down, since I now feel ready to tackle real literature
>crack open a wuxia novel fresh from the amazon warehouse
>years of training have prepared me to vividly visualize martial artists slapping each other to death with supernatural powers
It doesn't get any comfier than this, lads