/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12294704]

How do i into poetry?
Is poetry dead in two thousand 19?
Is it just nothing but liberal demagogues writing about their identity or a pretty flower they saw or some gay shit?

[Anonymous No.12294709]

Frogposter
He destroyed his cage
No
NO
He's shitposting again

[Anonymous No.12294713]

>>12294704
>two thousand 19?
Holy shit the decade's almost over.

What the fuck, I haven't done anything worthwhile in a whole decade.

[Anonymous No.12294724]

>>12294704
i don't think you'll make a very good poet

[Anonymous No.12294725]

>>12294704
Poetry is dead but you can still visit its grave and pay your respects by reading classical poetry.

[Anonymous No.12294733]

>>12294704
A pistol with one bullet, a pen and some paper. Speak to gods and if they do not answer, trigger their attention somehow. Then repeat until you can channel their wisdom on the page and negate that wisdom to suit your will as needed on your pathway to becoming a demigod. You are welcome.

[Anonymous No.12294739]

>>12294733
Overwritten, no rhythm, no flow, no emotional punch. Just a motley assembly of slightly evocative imagery. Poetry is dead.

[Anonymous No.12294749]

>>12294724
i am intrested in poetry but this thread is about reading about poetry and if there is anything about it that is alive in the present. And i am axing the people of lit if they know some shit.
Like is there some hidden great poet or is like 95% cat lady shit now or some shit.
I mean both historically and in the modern day

[Anonymous No.12294755]

>>12294749
Shakespeare, Dante, Poe, and then branch out from there.

[Anonymous No.12294766]

>>12294739
If poetry is dead, the American's have killed him. And so let my lament for their commoners corpses be the last poem, and let it be spoken to the wise and rich and beautiful that I seek in them an allusion to the field of carnage at my feet. Let them hear the last poem, bursting through the p-p-pipes.

[Anonymous No.12294768]

>>12294766
*commoners'

[Anonymous No.12294773]

>>12294766
really gay

[Anonymous No.12294791]

>>12294766
americans were interested in poetry from walt whitman to ezra pound up until the beat generation. Then after that it seemed to sort of die and become gay cat lady shit.

The thing americans really dont like is philosophy. There are no great american philosophers

[Anonymous No.12294805]

>>12294791
James, Peirce, Dewey, Santayana, Royce, Rawls, Nozick, Nagel, Dennett, and Putnam & Putnam off the top of my head.

[Anonymous No.12294813]

>>12294805

all literally who tier

[Anonymous No.12294825]

>>12294813
Maybe if you don't read philosophy

[Anonymous No.12294834]

>>12294749
well poetry is written for poets, you know. it's impossible for anyone to feel it who does not carry within him the seeds of wonderment to which wonders speak. it can't die really but there hasn't been a lot of it about for a while.

[Anonymous No.12294838]

>>12294825
Pierce and Quine are the only Americans worth reading at all and neither are "great" in the grand scheme of things. Stop deluding yourself.

[Anonymous No.12294841]

>>12294834
art is meant to evoke emotion form an audience.
If true then elitism is what kills poetry. No wonder the last poet america cared about was bukowski.
Really need some down to earth niggas making this shit and not pretty and safe people

[Anonymous No.12294863]

>>12294841
if i read a scientific treatise written for scientists i cant blame it if it's obscure to me.

[Anonymous No.12294869]

>>12294838
Nothing is "great," I was just noting notables. If you investigated the history of ideas a little bit you would find that Europe would lose half of its notables if you established the cut off at the formation of the United States. The US is young, and it doing perfectly well philosophically for only having been in operation for a couple hundred years.

[Anonymous No.12294874]

>>12294791
American poetry is niggers mumbling about money and bitches to the tune of a looped samples.

[Anonymous No.12294876]

>>12294713
worth whose while anon

[Anonymous No.12294885]

>>12294704
Poetry is for autists. Do NOT fall for the poetry meme. Art is meant to be visual, words are for conveying thoughts.

[Anonymous No.12294902]

>>12294791
You clearly are viewing poetry from a public eye, a notion of what americans were interested in, which is itself a mark of the feebleminded cultural imperialism that I disdain. The more you seek from that view, the less you see of anything valuable except in what use you give to it - the ultimate American sore that festers and cannot be cured except by force. There is no reason to speak to or hear from your kind. Your screams will be accounted for as tribute to the failings of postmodernism.

[Anonymous No.12294919]

>>12294869
>Nothing is "great,"
Kek, easy on the cope, bugs.
>The US is young, and it doing perfectly well philosophically for only having been in operation for a couple hundred years.
It's not an argument. US didn't reset and restart as a Bronze age civilization. You're a philosophically impotent nation. Stop being delusional.

[Anonymous No.12294921]

>>12294841
fuck your american levelling of good taste, fuck you worry about the common people. If the king hears my poems and deems me good, I may have written something that changes the world. You merely produce consumer trinkets to delude those that you secretly revile. You are the cancer and I shall be your cure by arms and duty, by tradition and institution. You will surrender to my aethetic will and be subsumed in all that I envision. For I speak to your masters, I speak to those who make of you a channel. I am the only true poet you will ever know.

[Anonymous No.12294935]

>>12294885
I actually started to get into poetry because of an ezra pound poem called in a station of the metro. Its a short poem and the style is called imagism. Its the only poem that ever made me feel something. I think i read it while depressed though.

In a Station of the Metro

"The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough."

[Anonymous No.12294943]

>>12294921
>the king

good thing feudalism is dead

[Anonymous No.12295051]

>>12294919
Why are you so angry? Did somebody hurt you, anon?

[Anonymous No.12295056]

>>12295051
>Did somebody hurt you

[Anonymous No.12295070]

>>12295056
Why are you evading, anon? I love you, you know; do you have difficulty forming secure attachments due to social trauma early in your life?

[Anonymous No.12295075]

>>12295070
>so booty bothered by an innocent fact he goes full reddit mode in a span of two posts

[Anonymous No.12295078]

>>12295070
oof, that's gonna be a yikes from me s w e e t i e

[Anonymous No.12295101]

>>12294704
just read ginsberg

[Anonymous No.12295157]

>>12295075
I've never been on reddit so I suppose that I can't anxiously self-editorialize to avoid embarrassing myself in front of my friends like you, Mr. Big Strong Guy.
>>12295078
Ok sweaty

[Anonymous No.12295165]

>>12294943

[Anonymous No.12295204]

>>12295165
They said death to the patriarchy while the others cried foul of postmodernism. So what was I to do other than to bring them back to your grace? If a few I bring back are served on a platter, let my exuberance be shunned but not I dismissed, for I do so for the Kingdom that was, for those subjects without caring masters, and for those whose cries do not find your Majesty. I act only for the betterment of America and Americans so that they may share in the luxury of our commonwealth.

[Anonymous No.12295215]

>>12294838
no

[Anonymous No.12295247]

>>12295165
Who gives a shit what that old bat thinks, if i met her in person i would spit on the ground

[Anonymous No.12295306]

>>12294704
>writing about their identity or a pretty flower they saw or some gay shit?
That's always what poetry was desu

[Anonymous No.12295311]

>>12294704
>just spaces after words makes it deep