/lit/ - Literature

The same reason gummy candies are popular

>>11254811
Most people do not read.

Most people like the identity of being a reader.

Since most people don't know what literature, poetry, etc look like, you can sell their idea of what literature, poetry, etc look like

>>11254848
I don't read nearly as much as I should myself, but
>not reading at all
>wanting to call yourself a reader
Literally why? Is it the benefit of being able to call themselves cultured that people are after?

>>11254811
It's simple enough to understand, simple to share and simple to start discussions with, even if it's about how trite it is. It's a great work of art, faggot.

>>11254899
This is the kind of person we're dealing with

>>11254899
The stereotype of "reading = smart" is still alive and well.

>>11254899
I know a girl who just walks around with a book in hand all the time
I've seen her "read", she spends 5 minutes on one page and then goes on her phone

People think books=smart and sophisticated

>>11254925
>Purple hair and glasses
Giving women agency was a mistake

>It's so relatable
that is all they say anon, don't give too much thought to it

>>11254925
You know I'm pretty creative but I don't think I've ever imagined that my oven was a dragon.

>>11254914
Yeah, sure, throw this shit in with the works of the classics and call them great works of art.
>>11254925
>>11254926
>>11254951
Things like these make me become increasingly disappointed of the direction we're headed in. Why not actually pick up a book and read for a change? Why neglect the valuable information and life lessons you could learn from books? It seems to me like the lazier people are the harder they try to prove the opposite.

>>11254964
>t. ordinary person

women are fucking stupid tasteless whores

Finding out that Rupi and that cigarette guy were being 100% genuine and weren't, as I'd always expected, publishing house creations to make a quick buck off of tumblr kids bothered me more than it should have

To answer your question OP, garbage poetry and literature appeals to the uneducated because it flatters them, gives them just enough to think about without requiring any sort of actual contemplation or knowledge. Say the absolute worst of literature, maybe some Naruto fanfiction, has Level 0 symbolism and Level 0 depth. A John Green novel may be Level 1 or 2 in these respects- still garbage, but people feel like they're reading something "deep" because it's not the absolute bottom of the barrel. People like to feel smart and cultured. But sitting down and trudging through the Divine Comedy takes more effort than they decide it's worth. It's not about personal enlightenment, it's about feeling good. It's a commodity like food.
Meme poetry is similar. 95% of people have never read a line of poetry with the exception of what they were forced to do in high school. Poetry is seen as a far-off, pretentious art for a select type of person. Getting a plastic approximation of what they think poetry is (dude line breaks lmao), with the same Level 1 "depth" as you get from YA lit.
It's all masturbation, basically.

>>11254926
Reading does improve your sentence structure and can make you smarter anon

>>11254993
Depends on what you read

The same reason threads like this are popular and more substantial threads get less replies/attention.

>>11254981
Well, it's unlikely to survive time, so I guess to rephrase my point: "it has the most aspects of great art covered".

>It seems to me like the lazier people are the harder they try to prove the opposite.
Now add a doddle and become the next Rupi!

>>11254993
Wouldn't watching a semi-competent faggot on youtube playing vidya accomplish that too?

>>11254811
same reason JBP is popular

>>11254811
Its easy, and people that read it can tell themselves and others that they read poetry.

>>11254988
It doesn't help that the majority of "classic" English language poetry is actually terrible.

>>11255233
>keats
>yeats
>donne
>marvell
>pope
>spenser
>shakespeare
>dickinson
>blake
>milton
>chaucer
>langland
>gawain poet
>byron
>terrible

Bait.

>>11255301
Half of them are trash.

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>>11255339

>>11254972
>Says he's creative
>No skim milk chai latte
>No MFA degree
>No mac covered in stickers
>No angeryblog
>No ankle/wrist tattoos
Leave this board

>>11255339
Yeah I picked up a copy of The Canterbury Tales and, like, half the words were misspelt.
The shit that gets published these days...

>>11254988
>that cigarette guy
He's genuinely worse than Rupi
Rupi is just poor-quality twitter garbage
The cig guy puts such work into """aesthetics""" and pretense that he doesn't even pretend the poetry is an important part of it
Style-over-substance will always be my bane

>>11254811
you incels always cherrypick the worst ones to show how muh women can't write
post good rupi

>>11255436
wtf i love rupi now

>>11255436
>good

>>11255436
best one i've read of hers so far. fake?

>>11254925
id much rather fuck the ordinary person

>>11255456
its joyce

>>11255463
well anon, i know it's joycean; but, who wrote it?

>>11255468
James "P. Sullivan" Joyce

>>11255490
prithee, anon; thank you; it would seem misleadingly some would cozen others for no other reason but merriment and a lack of useful time; having appertainedly ascribed the name rupi kaur to words and echos by a james joyce; i thank ye most potently and avariciously for thine service

>>11254899
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>>11254951
Why so many people get shocked at pseuds using books as a fashion statement? It's quite trivial if you take in consideration the fact that books are the universal symbol for "intelligence", the physical book becoming a trinket you can carry around and flash for social cred.
Blatant pseuds are not a problem, but I always mistrust those who have a subtle, but still obnoxious way of associating themselves to reading. The "special snowflakes" who fetishize the act of reading, who will sometimes take excessive care of books, buy more than they can read or display their library in an ocd fueled manner. The people who talk about reading like it's a full time job, as if the reason for reading it's the act of reading itself, not the information you absorb. The kind that usually keeps written record of his read books, sometimes even of his page progress (ex goodreads), merely another trinket to boost his selfesteem.
The meme "reading = smart" is usually kept alive by young folk. A more mature mind doesn't even read that much. At certain age you stop bingeing and consider twice before taking the reaponsability of a new book.

>>11255529
Good post.

>>11254811
>he's coming back
>whispered my head
>he has to
>sobbed my heart

I get where this shit is coming from, but it's like, literally what I used to write when I was an edgy tween. If I want non-rhyming post modern nihilistic poetry, I'll listen to the Front Bottoms like everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N05h8IVPggw

>>11255529
>At certain age you stop bingeing and consider twice before taking the reaponsability of a new book.

This. As I get older, I read less and less, for the reason that I'm of aware of my limitations, and know the amount of time I need to properly absorb the content of a book.

>>11254811
It perfectly reflects the shallowness of its admirers.

>>11254811
basically all of her poems can be summarized as "we get it, you dated a fuckboy"

>>11255511
ok ok I wrote it

>>11254925
I doubt the drawer every watched a microwave enthralled imagining it as a dragon

>>11255301
only yeats, shakespeare, chaucer, byron are actually good

the rest are shit

This is legitimate poetry and the effect it has on the human emotions is real.

>>11254811
It's marketing. It's hype. it's targeting a niche group, for fun and profit. Anyone can write shit grade poetry. It takes real marketing skill to put lipstick on the pig and sell it. Welcome to capitalism, anon.

>>11257286
>stealing lines from obscure qt booktubers

>>11255436
My favorite one is Sakura Morning Moon
>as clouds falls, sakura blooms
>fallen warrior gather on the evening gloom
>and you meet your doom
>- rupi kaur

>>11258087
that is gold

>>11255529
I kind of fit this profile, but honestly it's more a hoarding/OCD thing with me. Where I live, literally no one fucking cares either about the quality or quantity of what a person reads.
There's worse hobbies out there.

>>11254964
I never not think about this

>>11257706
You don't like Milton?