/lit/ - Literature

>>13831250
>greatest poetry books that are about the seasons
they're all in chinese and japanese learn one of those languages
>Or any poetry books that have deep religious themes?
they're all in latin and greek learn one of those languages

glad to help

>>13831256
>what even is arabic/persian poetry

>>13831250
>deep religious themes
>'send dick pics'
you're giving me mixed signals

anyway,
https://poets.org/anthology/seasonal-poems

As I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow,
Surpris’d I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;
And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,
A pretty Babe all burning bright did in the air appear;
Who, scorched with excessive heat, such floods of tears did shed
As though his floods should quench his flames which with his tears were fed.
“Alas!” quoth he, “but newly born, in fiery heats I fry,
Yet none approach to warm their hearts or feel my fire but I!
My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns,
Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;
The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals,
The metal in this furnace wrought are men’s defiled souls,
For which, as now on fire I am to work them to their good,
So will I melt into a bath to wash them in my blood.”
With this he vanish’d out of sight and swiftly shrunk away,
And straight I called unto mind that it was Christmas day.

>>13831256
fuck i had a sentence about english books only but i deleted it because i thought /lit/ would know what i meant
>>13831274
love it. could you explain to me how i would read this poem using form? I don't know which syllables are hard or soft or whatever. I want to write a comfy seasonal poem, but I don't know anything about form.

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

>>13831263
as deep as a puddle

>>13831292
t. ajami

>>13831250
Read T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Four Quartets.
I would also recommend going through Robert Frost's works, he often engages with nature in a comfy way that might satisfy what you're looking for.
Similarly, Gerard Manley Hopkins is a deeply Religious poet and often writes about appreciating the beauty of nature, see "Pied Beauty" and "The Windhover"

>>13831250
>>13831331
also - I feel like epic narrative poems might not be what you are looking for, but if you deeply religious themes and haven't read The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost, you really should.