/lit/ - Literature

>>14490273
Is that an actual quote from her because i think i got that in a fortune cookie once.

>>14490273
The only people who read contemporary poetry want to write contemporary poetry. At least Rupi Kaur is trying to interrupt this idea.

P O W E R F U L

>>14490280
>want to write contemporary poetry
wrong, her instagram poetry is easily consumed by any passing person scrolling through their explore

It's actually embaressing how women like her are basically the modern fetishization of the exotic. You can beat your ass if she had blonde hair and was some regular white woman, her poetry would be in a dollar bin, not a NYT best seller.

>>14490273
Semantically void, incoherent statement. Daniel Dennett is cringe, but his concept of "deepity" applies perfectly here.
>Dennett adopted and somewhat redefined the term "deepity", originally coined by Miriam Weizenbaum. Dennett used "deepity" for a statement that is apparently profound, but is actually trivial on one level and meaningless on another. Generally, a deepity has two (or more) meanings: one that is true but trivial, and another that sounds profound and would be important if true, but is actually false or meaningless. Examples are "Que sera sera!", "Beauty is only skin deep!", "The power of intention can transform your life."

>>14490273
Our generation is fucking abysmal so probably

>we began
>with honesty
>let us end
>in it too

Wowee I've had a break up before! This is so relatable.
Someone please put me out of my misery

>>14490471
why do all middle school poetry look and sound the same

>>14490291
I think you’ve misunderstood me. I said that Rupi Kaur is a poet with mass appeal.

I really want to fuck her. It's strange, I don't even think she looks all that attractive.

>>14490273
This doesnt make sense.

>>14491012
The first part is a reference to Paradise Lost, and the second describes the imminence of the Kingdom of God on Earth as described by the Gospels of Mark and Luke.

Shes yummy

>>14491293
No, they aren't. And you know it.

>>14491002
i think she scrubs up quite nicely
but then i have an incurable case of curry fever

>>14491920
if her hands and mouth are too busy with my cock maybe she won't be able to write or speak anymore...

>>14491293
my first thoughts as well

>>14490273
Wow, what a pretty sentence that means absolutely nothing

>>14490273
Riddle me this /lit/

If Kaur can write what she does and it isn't literature, yet Catullus can write "I hate and I love, perhaps you ask how I do it? I don't know. But I feel it happening and am tortured." and its considered canon?

this type of reaffirming poetry has always been and always will be popular.

>>14490273
No, she's just another dumb thing on parade

>>14492398
>Catullus
That's cause Catullus did it literally 2000 years ago

>>14490618
Foot fetishists are the lowest form of cuck. Only women, niggers, and gays care about shoes. Real men put on practical shoes and then banish shoes from their awareness.

How dare she compare herself to a succubus? Commanding attention from the dregs plagued by sexual dysfunction that are foot fetishists is akin to commanding a dog's attention with a scrap of meat. There is nothing of value in the act. At least a whore has the gumption to brazenly shoulder society's scorn. This disgusting creature risks nothing and equates her spoils to those who actually dare. A typical writer, if ever such a thing existed. This charlatan will never be worthy of the respect due the whores she jealously copies with her half measured actions. And the gall to push her shameful timidity onto others! To normalize her insidious imitation of a bold mode of being. An artificial woman with superficial desires and insubstantial daring. This is truly the voice of our generation.

>>14490273
What does that even mean?

That's like saying "if you were born without hair you were also born with hair"

>>14490273
>quick write nu-poetry

i left my burger
in the fridge
like you left me
in the cold

>>14492860
I kicked a man
a can
pan
Panama canal

>>14492870
Anon it needs to be without capitals or punctuation to truly get the aesthetic right

i took a shit
and the brown
the toilet white
grew into flowers

>>14492895
I don't think she's ever that vulgar or evocative of disgusting imagery that isn't also 'beautiful', it would detract from her accessibility

>>14490273
>>14492917
Literally idiocracy

I think we're just bored now

I like falling
the rush, the terminal velocity,
Climbing is for protestants
who want
the monarchy of all they see,
but their eyes
are inadequate organs
glaucoma
and a-stygmatic
What they see
is a monotonous swamp.

I'll be here,
falling into the middle of the earth
through a pothole, unbound.

>>14490273
but that's nonsensical, the first doesn't imply the latter at all.
>current year
>say whatever you want, just so long as it sounds affirming
>be praised as a genius, no one ever criticises you seriously, not subject to academic rigour
>masses are too smallbrain to even realize you're full of shit
liar's paradise

>>14491920
>only took 5 gallons of facepaint and 4 fulltime photoshop experts working around the clock to make her look presentable
so impressive

>>14492561
Alright, then give us your novel and inventive poetry, anon. You're such the expert on what makes poverty good or bad, right?

>>14490273
>>14492870
>>14492895
Consoom
Consoom
Consoom
Consoomm
yes
YES
CONSOOM

>>14490273
>If you were [bad] you can be [good]
Women "philosophy"

>>14493324
huh

>>14493302
I suppose there would be backlash if some of these "poets" were publicly criticized for their shitty chopped up prose.

>>14493835
>2020
>not allowed to criticise an arteeeest if they have a large enough twitter following to serve as a personal army
great literary scene.

>>14490291
That's his point. Kaur and R.H. Sin are the only poets with a mainstream appeal.

>>14491002
Any poet worth a damn should be good in bed. I'm not joking.

this current zeitgeist of posting rupi threads, ironically (or gasp, unironically), needs to stop
let this meme die

>>14490273
I've been reading the last night of the earth poems by bukowski recently I've never read poetry before who should I read. All modern poets seem like feminist pandering faggots.

>>14491002
That is just a hatefuck response with some Attainability Syndrome sprinkled on it.

>>14492841
I think that it would be a closer analogy if you said:
>"if you were born without hair then you were also born with the ability to grow hair"

>>14492917
You asked for it.

>>14494703
I like Michael C. Ford but he gets into the weeds once he starts thinking about sports. "Polluting the Poetry Pool" is my favorite of his.

>>14493366
Ohh, ohh, ohh, IIIIIIIIIII'MMMMMMMM CONNNNNNSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGG!!!!!!