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Which poem would you consider as art on par with best music or paintings?

>> No.19513678

>>19513635
The Divine Comedy, but only the English translations.

>> No.19513687
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19513687

Celia, Celia by Adrian Mitchell.

"When I am sad and weary
When I think all hope has gone
When I walk along High Holborn
I think of you with nothing on."

>> No.19513688
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>>19513635
Never been a big poetry guy, but lots of Shelley, Hopkins, and Eliot really makes me feel the same way great music and paintings make me feel.

>> No.19513731

>>19513678
Which translations?

>> No.19513738

>>19513635
>on par

Poetry is the highest art. Read Hegel

>> No.19513797

Literally anything by Rainer Maria Rilke is a masterpiece.

>> No.19513807

>>19513635
I unironically think pic is a good poem.

>> No.19513830

>>19513688
>tiger pretends to sleep
>will say that cage crumbled accidentally
>he likes the cage anyways
the feels

>> No.19513853

>>19513807
not an unpopular opinion. It's pretty genius

>> No.19513863

>>19513807
It's a funny thing: the kid who wrote it certainly didn't understand the delightful ambiguity of it, but an adult can easily appreciate it.
One can imagine the childlike joy of a six-year-old boy, one whose imagination is still set aflame by dinosaurs, seeing in the flesh a large, powerful animal destroying its enclosure, and prowling free.
Or one can equally imagine it as the words of a person shouting for, or calling to, a zookeeper, or animal control: the reader's mind can supply the other half of the dialogue, the breathless panic, the exclamation marks.

>> No.19513864

>>19513807
Few disagree.

>> No.19514525

>>19513807
That's because it is a good poem.

>> No.19514540

>>19513688
>Eliot
I was going to bring him up. Four Quartets and Prufrock are some of the most beautiful poems I've read.

>> No.19514562

>>19514540
I've always wondered by Prufrock never became a /lit/ meme. I think a lot of people here would find it all too relatable.

>> No.19514594

>>19513863
I definitely think it was a case of lightning in a bottle. I doubt this kid has any other halfway decent poems, even for his age. He just lucked into brilliancy which kids can do sometimes

>> No.19514622

Rupi Kaur's complete works

>> No.19514625

>>19514562
>I do not think that they will sing to me.
There are only a few lines I've ever read that really fucking stuck themselves permanently into my head as much as that one.

>> No.19515004

>>19513635
it's odd of God
to choose the Jews