/lit/ - Literature

>>12482021
>Night
>time
>is only
>the other side
>of day
>time

>But if you've
>ever
>waited for
>the sun

>You
>Know
>what it's like
> to wish
>that son
>would
>cum

>>12482021
Women do this with everything

my love
was not watered
so it wilted
like a flower

My love
was not erect
so it waited
until it was
it was then
that from within
her heart did
flutter and clutter
spacing and filling
shaping and engorging
erect stood love

>>12482021
imagine thinking this is funny

goose is loose

I was standing in the poetry section trying to decide on some books that I wanted and a group of arthoes walked up (all wearing a sweater and most in overalls). They picked up some copies of Rupi Kaur and other instagram poetry collections; they talked very loudly about how good the poems were and they shared aloud their favorites. I was the only other person in the section and they asked me what I was looking for. I showed them the copy of Leaves of Grass and he copy of Paradise Lost I was holding and they asked me who those guys were. One of the girls in the back knew who Whitman was and explained him as “this old dude from New York who used to write poetry on the profundities of nature and simplicity.” I explained Milton and they were obviously bored; they asked me if I ever read Rupi Kaur and I said “no, never.” They were shocked and gave me some reccs then left.
It will never cease to amaze me how women can be so unceasingly mid-wit

>>12482115
Profound.

>>12482119
>Rupi Kaur
S-should I r-read her to g-get art hoes?

He was a
puppy
excited and young
licking her
up and down

She had never loved
before
so she didn't
complain
tell him she was
tired and running on
fumes

He ran her
dry

>>12482134
extremely erotic

looking at photos
of herself
those people dont exist anymore
and who knows if they ever did

>>12482198
until wandering
i
through the graveyard
i
find that the were
once
until they were embraced
by finality
death

he was a wind
she
a petal
he blew her away

>>12482119
Midwit is giving them too much credit

>>12482021

He
grabbed
her
by
the
pussy

She
grabbed
him
by
the
rape
accusation

>>12482214
he was a g
she
a hoe
he blew her away

>>12482084
You know
That day destroys
The night
Night divides
The day

Try to run
Try to hide
Break on through
To the other side
Break on through
To the other side
Yeah

>>12482222
Entitled:
>Trumped

>>12482214
he was a man
she
a dust bunny
he blew her away

>>12482114
imagine not posting your breasts

>>12482132
no, Silvia Plath

>>12482097
Even with the Bible?

>>12482240
Is it worth it though?

>>12482115
based

>>12482119
>Walt Whitman
Is he really much better than Rupi? All free verse just feels like some faggot used the enter key too much to me.

he was a shitpost
i was a janny

i didn't want
to do it for free
anymore

Rupi Kaur's poems are obviously stupid, and the argument that she is deconstructing what poetry means in the spirit of a woman not giving a fuck about dead white male's opinions of what a poem should be like is also obviously stupid. What you should be asking yourself is how these women, Rupi and the collective arthoes with their powers combined seem to be able to ignore or not even recognize how absurdly funny these poems are in their shittyness. Like, look at pic related. The ending: "i popped their heads off / and ate them". How can you not fucking realize how funny that shit is? Especially after the "one / by / one" lines, which are not even that bad and make it seem like it could be an enjoyable poem. The hidden message here is one of a feminine trick: a power move. I cannot imagine hearing someone say "and ate them" at the end of that poem out loud without me rolling on the floor laughing. However, try saying it yourself, right now, stop reading this and say it out loud. If you did, you realize something, or at least have a glimpse feeling of something being there. And that there is a hidden female power move. It's unconscious, but it's deliberate. It is a powering through, unconsciously intentional ignoring (or cutting out) of the funniness of the line while still keeping the absurdity (which is indeed very Kafkian). The goal of this is, as some may guess is, essentially, castration. The unnatural severing of the joke into two parts, dividing the absurdity from the humour that is naturally supposed to succeed it and resolve the tension is analogous to the entrapment of a simple guy while he's arguing with his girl and the oppressive silence, the judging look in the girl's eyes and the condescendingly sterilizing tone in her self-assured voice that all work together to signal: Yes, what I'm saying is absurd, but you will not laugh. And you will enter my world, with my rules, where everything you believe will stop making sense, and I will be right. And you will believe it.


This is the essence of the enjoyment females get from Rupi Kaur. Note that even though my post has been mostly negative, I don't believe it's all that malevolent. But in its core, it is wish-fulfillment of dominance power-fantasies manifested in the form of stupid, childlike ultrasincerity and confidence in something that's stupid, obviously wrong and plain shitty, but alas, feminine.

>>12482584
I wonder sometimes...
Does the Jannie love me?
I get 3 days
bans
My active threads
Vanish
But each day he touches
My posts
And he does it
For
Free

>>12482229

lmao

chopped
prose
does
not
make
a
poem
thanks bye

>>12482627
actually
it does
a poem
can be defined
by
any metric even things
like this
have
u
no
red
john agards
haf
caste?

he was a boy
she was a girl
can i make it
any more obvious

>>12482674
...
they made stew

>>12482214
He was a boy
She was a girl
Can it get any more obvious

>>12482587
Actually a good post

>>12482685
>>12482674
Fuck

>>12482696
What were the chances of this occuring?

>>12482587
Good post...but I wouldn't say it's feminine, only the idea of femininity is associated with it due to a mainstream conciousness of what feminism actually is, and this idea is fabricated by organisations who have financial interests at heart.

in essence
all the problems
in
the world
can be blamed on
you know who

>>12482248
big time, just follow any youth group thot on instagram

>>12482250
Plath actually has some merits as a poet and got to her station as the patron saint of teenage girls for reasons other than just pandering super hard and understanding
how to market digitally

>>12482726
So, she's basically the Oprah of poetry?

>MS Paint
>Times New Roman, size 12
>Shit doodle with pencil tool
Now you are this generation's most important female poet. Post results

>>12482734
if you think that Oprah has genuine artistic value than sure

>>12482759
For her ability to swindle wino soccer moms? Sure.

>>12482248
>>12482716
Primary Facie evidence: Joel Osteen readers

>>12482587
Great post

>>12482021
you
are the victim
of a man who couldn't appreciate you
a queen
also feminine energy or something
then to top it all off with some
vagina symbolism

--Boopi Krauer

>>12482218
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

>>12482587
Thanks for explaining thoughtful anon.

>>12482587
This for me seriously thinking: are all romantic sentiments simply power fantasies? I'm thinking of romantic thinkers like Nietzsche or Hegel, and I can't help but notice that whenever they drift from a strict rationalist approach into imagery or speculation, there's always some element of power at play, as if they are imagining a world that works according to their own strengths where they can win. I realize what that means is that romanticism is just a cope for feeling powerless and solipsistic, which seems overly harsh. Is that right? Help me out lit. For some reason I can't think of any examples to the contrary.

>>12482587
>The unnatural severing of the joke into two parts, dividing the absurdity from the humour that is naturally supposed to succeed it and resolve the tension is analogous to the entrapment of a simple guy while he's arguing with his girl and the oppressive silence, the judging look in the girl's eyes and the condescendingly sterilizing tone in her self-assured voice that all work together to signal: Yes, what I'm saying is absurd, but you will not laugh. And you will enter my world, with my rules, where everything you believe will stop making sense, and I will be right. And you will believe it.
holy shit you're right

>>12482742

>>12483166 (checked)
There's power at play in everything but that doesn't mean that power is all there is.

>>12482587
lmao get laid incel
>this is what a female would unironically respond with

>>12482587
And that also explains the shrill panic and irrational accusations of cruelty and sexism when you catch women out. From whom did you steal this idea, or from whom did you adopt the concepts requisite for this insightful amalgamation?

>>12482587
We are also seeing her rage manifest in a distinctly feminine way, which translates it into a goofy self destructive act

>>12483218
It doesn't really require insight. Anyone who has ever borne witness to a females passive aggression in person knows this fully, although I imagine for many it would not be so coherent a thought or so consciously formed, rather more likely your average man subconsciously knows it but doesn't confront it.

>>12482250
>>12482726
>>12482734

>>12482566
if you are not american you will never understand Walt Whitman. He was the last truly great free-verse poet.

>>12482701
https://youtu.be/TIy3n2b7V9k

>>12483333
nice quads bro

>>12482115
Truthbomb detected

>>12482587
oh
sweetie
who hurt you
honey
no
like just
don't
incel

>>12482132
Just skim some images of her more popular stuff off of the web. You do not need a mastery of it to impress art hoes - you only need a couple of nuggets.

>>12482214
she was a wind
he
a petal
she blew him anyways

>>12482701
Can I make it any more obvious?

i've got
a

feeling

we're not
in
kansas
anymore
- rupees crore

the tiger
he destroyed his cage
yes
YES
the tiger is out

>>12482248
in a religious friend circle, Yes.

>>12482627
Don't
mansplain
poetry to
me

I am
a
princess
I do
what i please

i enjoy
my boyfriend's presence
and
men
don't threaten my
insecurities
and
i'm my own person
who accepts the mistakes
i've made

>>12483575

>>12483537
publishable

>>12482119
So there I was, putting on my rape shoes, and practicing my sexual harassment pickup lines this morning. I just got done cyberbullying my coworkers. It was time to shave, I yelled at my wife to smile because I demand it, while pinching her butt right after she told me she didn't consent to it. Putting on the shaving cream and thinking about how I can get my son into a fight at the next BBQ, I replaced the worn Gillette brand Mach3 and began to chant "boys will be boys" as I started to shave. Then suddenly my daughter burst into the bathroom holding her phone. As I began to mansplain to her why she isn't smart enough to know my shaving time is my time she showed me the new Gillette ad. I realized how my every view and behavior I've ever held dear was wrong. I'm calling in sick at the toxic masculinity factory today and registering Democrat. Thanks Gillette, now excuse me while I help to impeach.

>>12483513
the poet
she destroyed her meter
yes
YES
the poet is out

>>12482587
I think it's actually, "I wanted to make poetry for women who don't actually like poetry." All the feebleminded girls from my school posted excerpts from that book when it rose in popularity (they wouldn't post about any other books before or after that unless it was from grabbing some equally trite poetry from Instagram).
Regardless, I always admire someone who understands their audience well. So I must applaud Kaur's efforts.

i was listed
on his flight plan

but he
didn't fly
so good

When I met you, you were sweet
But now you're out sucking dick
Haven't slept in a week

>>12482587
that
feel
when
no women to dominate my world

>>12483922
I lold

>>12482021
Kek

>>12482248

>>12482710
roasted at low temp for however long it took to finish reading

>>12482119
cunt you're cringe

good thread guys

>>12483520
is this fucking real? please tell me we live in a bad dream and we will wake up soon

‘Keats is dead...’: How young women are changing the rules of poetry
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/26/new-generation-young-women-poets
>“A lot of the poets who are coming from online platforms are women or people of colour, and I think that has unsettled the very traditional, predominantly white, older male community, who have spent so long feeling that poetry is an incredibly exclusive academic club. Well, it’s not any more. Suddenly, it’s being blown open,”
Based and dare I say it, redpilled.

>>12483215
who hurt you

>>12482742
>ruby gloom
every fucking time

>>12482021
Biscuits and gravy?

What does this mean in amerispeak?

>>12484717
biscuit is the ameriburger word for bread roll

theyre seriously fucking wierd

>>12483922
why would he
shoot
a girl
before throwing her
out of
a plane

>>12484720
>bread roll
This only raises further questions

>>12484664
What a massive crock of shit

>>12484720
Have fun being killed by Muslims because you’re weak faggots just like we’ve been saying all along. HAHAHAHA.

>>12482674
>>12482685
hey
HEY
you
YOU
I don't like
your girlfriend
no way
NO WAY
I think
you need
a new one

>bought my girlfriend a copy of Milk and Honey when I broke up with her
>she hated it

>>12482587

>How can you not fucking realize how funny that shit is?

Is "funny" some kind of literary technique I'm supposed to "get"? Is it poetic if I phrase the question as such:

Is "funny"
some kind of
literary technique
I'm supposed
to "get"?

>If you did, you realize something, or at least have a glimpse feeling of something being there.

If you become cold when you walk in an empty room, it doesn't mean there are ghosts.

my cunt
is a sandwich
whose beef
Chad roasted

>>12482587
I've never read Rupi Kaur before, but that poem you posted does make sense if you don't read it through a "fuck women" perspective. You missed the point of it because you chose to ignore the poem's meaning and instead forced your own expectations onto it and refused to then see it as anything else. You read her poem through a filter that left you attacking whatever surface-level meaning you could salvage. That is why you find it absurd--you don't think about the poem, you think about how the author must be a bitch, and then do mental gymnastics to twist the poem into whatever validates your perspective on the author.

She ate the flowers so they could become apart of her body and soul. I assume you are familiar with basic biology, so the phrase, "you are what you eat," plays a significant role to understanding this poem. The flowers represent love, and "the last bouquet" suggests a long-lasting relationship that recently ended in seemingly tragedy for either or both partners. She is attached to and misses him, and that's all that matters, regardless of whether he died or left her. "The last bouquet of flowers...now wilting in their vase," represent, in her perspective, the death and decay of the memories and essence of the relationship. If she let the last flowers wilt, she will be left with nothing left from him, and she will disrespect the love they had. So, in order to retain the relationship, and pay tribute to her partner, she consumes the last flowers so that he becomes a part of, and stays with, her forever.

So no, it is not a funny poem like you intemperate it as. If you laugh because she ate flowers, then you are literally a child.

>>12485184
cringe and roastiepilled
eat cyanide

>>12485233
Don't worry, Anon. We all get angry at things we can't understand and control. That's why /r9k/ and /pol/ exist.

>>12482587
smart anon
learned something

>>12482214
Top fucking kek

>>12485282
Anon, are you on a campaign of kidposting throughout /lit/?
I can’t seem to decide whether to congratulate you or call you a retard and to give up.
Nonetheless, good luck.

>>12482639
But not!
By
This me-
-tric al-
-one
Poetry; does this make—

>>12485318
I don't have any idea what you're talking about. I only read his post and noticed his obvious misunderstandings of a simple poem.

>>12482587
>What you should be asking yourself is how these women, Rupi and the collective arthoes with their powers combined seem to be able to ignore or not even recognize how absurdly funny these poems are in their shittyness.
>not even recognize
You answered the question yourself. They're just dumb bitches.
>The hidden message here is one of a feminine trick: a power move.
Taking feminism seriously..
>The goal of this is, as some may guess is, essentially, castration.
Funny how it only works on the sackless among us. Nice trick.
>analogous to the entrapment of a simple guy while he's arguing with his girl and the oppressive silence, the judging look in the girl's eyes and the condescendingly sterilizing tone in her self-assured voice that all work together to signal: Yes, what I'm saying is absurd, but you will not laugh. And you will enter my world, with my rules, where everything you believe will stop making sense, and I will be right. And you will believe it.
The fate of such a pussy of a man can be explained very simply by a timeless adage.
Leave a pussy out in the open and it's gonna get got.
>the essence of the enjoyment females get from Rupi Kaur
is that it's by and for dumb bitches. Stop taking them so seriously before they get you too.

I'm high strung, universal donor
That's Type A, Type O
To wake up, calm down, or shape up:
Chai tea
Tai chi
Tae bo
No easy money
I'm tryna get rich slow
Standing on the acorn I planted
I trust that oak trees grow
ENFP Myers Briggs
6'2" in my highest kicks
Hero to the neighbor's kid
Dolled up I'm the baddest person
Still like backpacks over purses
Hate that Qs are 2s in cursive
Talk real fast when I get nervous
Rap real fast, but that's on purpose
I've single-handed some duets
I've been as bad as good girls get
But I don't regret too much just yet
I mostly gave more than I got
Tried not to watch the ticking clock
Like, always a bridesmaid
Never an astronaut

>>12482587
It's not fair to dismiss the argument that Kaur's poetry is an attempt at brazen deconstruction of hitherto canonical tradition when your argument, which is that the enforced suspension of recognition of her poetry's inherent absurdity is the realisation of something like a 'feminine' power fantasy, is a step away from stating that the entire Kaur "poetic" project is the realisation of a power fantasy by making these shitty poems so popular that to recognise their shit-ness is to immediately be dismissed and excluded from discourse as a reactionary. Her ubiquity and popularity reconfigure the concept of poetic standards in contemporary discourse. Rupi Kaur's popularity, the presence of her books at the top of all print poetry charts, the convergence of all contemporary poetry with an artistic schema wrought by her - all these are things that say to anyone with an appreciation for poetry of a different sort: "you will enter my world, with my rules, where everything you believe will stop making sense, and I will be right. And you will believe it."

In other words, Kaur's shitty poems being ubiquitously popular is an elaborate means of gaslighting anyone who thinks they are shit. The collective arthoes are empowered by the knowledge that they have set the discursive standards that make it impossible to criticise Kaur without immediately being condemned as a snob, a sexist, a racist, a reactionary and so on.

Maybe some women? My girlfriend has double d breasts and has read The Republic...

The smart women are out there retards. You’re all being collectively stupid

>>12482134
based and leafpilled

>>12483189
we should do a vagina anthology, maybe even a mangina anthology

>>12485184
>wilting flowers represent wilting love
>remnants of flowers represent the remnants of the relationship
So this surface level imagery that anyone could write into a poem makes it not shitty?

>>12482229
based and breakpilled

i said,
you're a pretty big guy
with a cold look
and stone shiver
on top of me
dignity torn

he said,
for you

Poetry
is so
fucking
dumnb

>>12484664
christ maya angelou got a pulitzer nod in 1971

>>12486049
Unfortunately the masses continue to really only have good poetry rattling around in their collective unconscious. We needed instathots to really stake their claim if women were to be memorable

>>12486049
Right but what they’re saying is ‘what’s wrong if most of the predominant teachers, academics, and peopleruling society were black’.

I have yet to find an answer for this question. There would be nothing wrong with it

>>12482223
He was a
boy
she
a girl
can
I be any
more obvious

>>12486135
>I have yet to find an answer for this question. There would be nothing wrong with it
lol believing this

>>12482587
200 iq post

>>12483922
He wanted
me
not my friends
they weren't
on
the plan
not
for him

Bugs..
Easy on the carrots
Bugs..
The bun got fat and died

>>12484233
Is that Alex Jones' little sister?

>>12482710
This honestly isn't too bad.

>>12482742
>ruby gloom
delet

>>12485808
>my gf reads plato she is so smart

>>12485132
"I'm better than Cervantes at poetry" is kind of like being better than a paraplegic at the 100m hurdles.

>>12486628
It's a reference to Harold Bloom. He said Stephen King is Cervantes compared to David Floppy Walrus.

>>12482685
lol nice

>>12485282
>moans about people surface-level reading out of uncharitable bias
>immediately ruins it with this foot in the bog

smdh my nigger

>>12485184
I don't think the ideas of the poem is funny. The execution is.