/lit/ - Literature

>>21667806
Yeah I'm sure Pale Fire would work great if told orally by a wandering bard

>non-English book's English title isn't just a translation of its original title

>>21444171
>poet rhymes "dry" and "thereby" with "eternity"
Why are they like this?

I tell them it's hard to explain and then act very standoffish, because usually it's a Philip K. Dick book or something else that might result in an awkward convo (like Leon Degrelle, Robert Snyder, or William Shirer for example). But I always make sure to act standoffish lol (unless it's an attractive woman – however people rarely ask me what I'm reading anyways nevermind any women whatsoever). Going up to people in public minding their own business and asking them what they're reading is fucking cringe and awkward anyways.
>Captcha is GTGDM O_o

>poet rhymes "fire" with "desire"

>book is called "ABC of Reading"
>only actual advice to learn how to read is "read more"
>followed by 200 pages of his opinions on 12th century Occitan poetry
BRAVO POUND

>heroic couplets
Not a fan.

>poem that used to rhyme doesn't rhyme anymore

>words that rhymed when the poem was written don't rhyme anymore

>>18614078
>I haven't read AFFC and ADOD yet
>but let me give my opinions on them anyway

>>18606081
>He said he believed in God but he did not believe Jesus was God, which is pretty much the Islamic position.
>Muslims invented Arianism

Explain to me RIGHT NOW how transsexuals projecting their ideas onto Tolkien's work is any more cringe than, say, the Romantics deciding Satan was actually the good guy.

>animorphs aren't naked when they turn back into humans
Fucking dropped, even as a kid that made no sense to me.