/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13052938]

>he reads poetry

[Anonymous No.13053914]

>he hasn't realized that prose is the poor man's poetry

[Anonymous No.13053940]

A flower was offer'd to me,
Such a flower as May never bore;
But I said 'I've a Pretty Rose-tree,'
And I passed the sweet flower o'er

Then I went to my Pretty Rose-tree,
To tend her by day and by night
But my Rose turn'd away with jealousy,
And her thorns were my only delight.

This expresses more and is more pleasant to read than a thousand novels.

[Anonymous No.13053971]

>>13052938
>he writes erotics

[Anonymous No.13054126]

im going to take this opportunity to share this poem i found in the /sci/ archives

by richard brautigan

[Anonymous No.13054136]

>>13054126
Cringe

[Anonymous No.13054137]

>>13054126
Scary...
I'm concerned

[Anonymous No.13054144]

>>13052938
Every philosopher wishes he were a poet, every poet wishes he were a musician. Every musician wishes he had more money.

[Anonymous No.13054163]

>>13054144
over dinner, the bankers talk about art and the artists talk of money

[Anonymous No.13054186]

>>13052938
>he hasn't realized poetry is the highest form of literature
Anon, are you even trying?

[Anonymous No.13054504]

>>13054144
I wish I were a philosopher, what does that make me?

[Anonymous No.13055184]

>>13052938
What's the deal with poetry? It seems like it's simultaneously cringe and gay, intellectual, and romantic.

[Anonymous No.13055882]

>>13055184
This is only true if all emotions and non-standard language are cringe and gay.
Read some of Ambrose Bierce's poems. They're not that impressive from a technique standpoint but they're really funny. Also, not all poetry is romantic (in the art history sense) it's just that a lot of the best stuff is.

[Anonymous No.13055920]

>>13053940
Depends on the thousand novels you choose.

[Anonymous No.13056331]

Poetry is a truly outdated form. Unlike prose, which stays faithful to the intellectual realm, even when it ventures into aesthetic (Ulysses etc), poetry is an attempt to make language musical and visual, something no longer necessary because we now have, you know, music and visual mediums.

[Anonymous No.13056352]

>>13056331
>>13052938
Cringe.

[Anonymous No.13057063]

I wrote a poems guys

Boomers gonna boom
Zoomers gonna zoom
Discord is full of trannies
Fuck niggers and jannies

[Anonymous No.13057154]

truly based an dredpilled

[Anonymous No.13057382]

Poems are only enjoyed by people who are completely in over their head, melodramatic, feminine, or all of the above. It is legitimately funny that anyone would read poetry and tell himself "wow that's deep" or "wow that's relatable." It is the literary equivalent of an emo band.

[Anonymous No.13057388]

>>13057382
Begone, philistine.

[Anonymous No.13057398]

>>13057388
t. teenage girl

[Anonymous No.13057413]

>>13054504
A brainlet.

This reminds me of Balzac's rant: "Nowadays idiots want to be men of wit, men of wit want to be men of talent, men of talent want to be geniuses and geniuses feel cheated whenever they're not treated as demigods."

[Anonymous No.13057424]

>>13056331
We've had music much before poetry. Some of the oldest musical instruments are over 11k years old.

[Anonymous No.13057432]

>>13057382
>poems

You mean writing. Enjoying literature is for melodramatic people.

[Anonymous No.13057771]

>>13057382

Write these words back down inside
We have burned their villages and all the people in them died
And we adopt their customs and everything they say we steal
All the dreams they had we kill
Still we all sleep sound tonight
Is this what you wanted to hear?
We erased all their images and dance
And replaced them with borders and flags
At the top of this timeline you'll remember
This is the lipstick on the collar
and in my own life I've seen it in the mirror
sometimes at the cost of others hopes
Write these words back down inside
That's where you need it the most and without conviction of heart
You will never feel it at all
Yeah, we all dance to the same beat when we're marching
Yeah, the TV tells us everything we need
And this scene is painting in all the fashions
Of the moment and history is all the same
Everything you say you stole
Every dream you dream you bought

[Anonymous No.13058799]

>>13057424
Yes, but we didn't have ways to preserve music. Music only existed when a musician was in the room. Just like visual mediums were only present when an acting troupe visited the town.

[Anonymous No.13059523]

https://youtu.be/IMP0H5DQJX4
>>13052938
Most of it is shit, yes

[Anonymous No.13059555]

>>13057382
you're actually right i'm super feminine and low-test and i love and relate to poetry, funny you should mention emo cause i had an emo phase and still enjoy plenty of emo bands

[Anonymous No.13059569]

>>13053914
>baba’s first aesthetic conclusion
you havent into modernism yet, have you??

[Anonymous No.13059573]

>>13059555
hey

there's nothing wrong with being effeminate.

[Anonymous No.13059575]

>>13057063
Mind your rhythm, should've been "fuck niggers and fuck jannies"

[Anonymous No.13059670]

Poetry is a blight upon the face of literature and I hate it. The poetic form and it's goal are both idiotic and disrespectful to the real, sublime beauty of the Word. The beauty that trascends rough shackles of syllabic guttoral musicks that we use to express the language, and embodies an Idea - complex, mystical, intimate. A word, to me, is a short fuse trigger, which used craftily by a master-writer, can overwhelm my mind with Imagery and Meaning. Poets, on the other hand, are drooling cavemen who look at the grandiose construct of the language and see it's most superficial qualities. They obsess over the amount of iambs in the verse, asinine notions of placing the proper "caesura", like children they ogle wide-eyed at alliterations, anaphoras, and anapests, as if any that matters, as if vocality is more than accidental, crudely functional, as if a word is more than a sign. Poets would have you read out loud, an act most of us leave in childhood as we cease to subvocalize and glide our eyes across the page until letters dissolve and Meaning takes the reign. A poet is a mental child, a manchild.

[Anonymous No.13060255]

>tfw recently got into reading and writing poetry but no one I know irl is into it
>tfw poetry in general has become increasingly more unpopular (and shitty) over time
Is there even any point in caring about poetry anymore?

[Anonymous No.13060384]

>>13057382
good post

[Anonymous No.13060397]

>>13052938
>He reads pottery

[Anonymous No.13060852]

>/sci/ has better poets than /lit/