/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13893279]

>Lovecraft's first published poem

[Anonymous No.13893282]

>>13893279
>Lovecraft was mad people wanted to replace some Anglo nobody by Cristopher Columbus, one of the greatest explorer in history
Didn't know he was a brainlet.

[Anonymous No.13893289]

What was his cat's name /lit/?

[Anonymous No.13893291]

>>13893282

Names are one of the few stable things in life. Who knows what horrors you'll unleash by changing them?

[Anonymous No.13893302]

He wasn't wrong

[Anonymous No.13893314]

>>13893302

A recent naming ceremony in Canada comes to mind:

>Winnipeg recently dedicated a park to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of the modern state of Pakistan.

[Anonymous No.13893315]

Why was Lovecraft such an autistic cringelord?

>I am naturally a Nordic — a chalk-white, bulky Teuton of the Scandinavian or North-German forests — a Viking berserk killer — a predatory rover of Hengist and Horsa — a conqueror of Celts and mongrels and founders of Empires — a son of the thunders and the arctic winds, and brother to the frosts and the auroras — a drinker of foemen's blood from new picked skulls — a friend of the mountain buzzards and feeder of seacoast vultures — a blond beast of eternal snows and frozen oceans — a prayer to Odin and Thor and Woden and Alfadur, the raucous shouter of Niffelheim — a comrade of the wolves, and rider of nightmares

[Anonymous No.13893329]

>>13893289

I continue to maintain that this poem is a playful, and entertaining, engagement with the 'great chain of being'--an idea that impressed itself on intellectuals since Plato's day.

[Anonymous No.13893335]

>people in the old days and even now are still xenophobic

really gets you to think

[Anonymous No.13893336]

>>13893279
He was basically correct though

[Anonymous No.13893351]

>>13893315
I thought he hated swedes?

[Anonymous No.13893355]

>>13893279

Good poem desu

[Anonymous No.13893358]

>>13893291
By changing Anglos nobody for glorious European pioneers? You'd unleash a lot of improvement I'd say. And names aren't stable at all, they just take a bit longer to change.

[Anonymous No.13893363]

>>13893315
Is that from him? I like Lovecraft but imagining his sheltered hypocondriac British self writing this while his Jewish wife makes pudding for him is pretty cringy.

[Anonymous No.13893366]

>>13893351

Lovecraft tried to help a Swede once. It didn't work.

[Anonymous No.13893399]

>>13893355
The beginning is meh, then it gets decent, then better if a bit repetitive and the end is really good.

It's also very funny to think Lovecraft's idea of the swarming immigrants horror is a mix of Spaniards, Swedes, Irishmen and Jews. Basically he's complaining that America is made of European immigrants.
The bit about Nouvelle Paris is really good when you remember this is the country that has a city named Baton Rouge.

[Anonymous No.13893408]

>>13893355
>Wsjzxypq$?&%$ladislaw
gets me every time

[Anonymous No.13893412]

>>13893279
>>13893289
Yeah, I'm thinking he's based.

[Anonymous No.13893424]

>>13893315
It's like /int/ and their Kara boga fantasies, but white instead of black.

[Anonymous No.13893456]

>>13893315
G*rmoids had to wield m*doids and l*tinoids to conquer of the CELTIC BVLL

[Anonymous No.13893479]

>>13893408

Is that supposed to be Polish?

[Anonymous No.13893494]

>>13893315
*marries a jew*

[Anonymous No.13893509]

>>13893314
Based. Immigrants show more courage by making the journey to a foreign country than some complacent anglos with rose-tinted glasses that sit on their ass all day complaining about immigrants

[Anonymous No.13893513]

>>13893355
>Rhyming "car" with "square"
I guess if he wants to sound like the grizzled captain of a whaling ship.

[Anonymous No.13893520]

Dude. Imagine being pals with young Lovecraft and reading his fresh juvenilia.

[Anonymous No.13893592]

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