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Do you think it's possible for someone to write a thousand-page epic poem in a mixture of English, French, German, Latin, Greek and Hebrew, with a lot of really obscure words in all five languages, AND for it to be good?

>> No.16869196

>>16869184
>all five languages
*six

>> No.16869224

Sure, if you figure yourself the next Lovecraft – which I doubt you are, but yes, the possibility of said endeavour exists, albeit in·fi·ni·te·si·mal.

>> No.16869235

>>16869184
Make it 2,000 pages in 4 volumes. Gotta beat Dante.

>> No.16869264

>>16869184
Literally just Pound’s Cantos

>> No.16869266

>>16869264
Exactly. So the answer is no.

>> No.16869324

>>16869264
OP said it has to be good

>> No.16869355

>>16869184
yes, but everyone will hate you

>> No.16869403

>>16869264
OP here, I'm not a racist.

>> No.16869405

>>16869266
>>16869324
>le shit on renowned author becuz it funny to be contrarian :)
Grow up. The Cantos are essential to understanding modernism and are a masterpiece of 20th Century literature.

>> No.16869444

>>16869235
Make it 5,000 pages across 4 volumes.

>> No.16869457

>>16869184
>AND for it to be good
I don't know about that but you'll surely get shilled a lot on /lit/

>> No.16869868

>>16869405
They're also full of shit

>> No.16869989

>>16869868
Astounding criticism. You've literally not even read it.

>> No.16870983

>>16869184
I don't think you understand the purpose behind an epic. Just write a novel and analyse Milton if you are obsessed about languages and epic literature.

>> No.16870991

>>16870983
Nothing wrong with writing a postmodern epic poem.

>> No.16870996

>>16869264
this
Dunno why anyone would read it though

>> No.16871183

>>16870991
What has postmodernism have to do anything? Many postmodern epics have already been written.

>> No.16871198

>>16869184
Joseph and His Brothers?

>> No.16871291

>>16869184
Mate you speak exactly the same language as I do except I also have Italian. Holy shit I thought I was the only one with this combination.

>> No.16871295

>>16871291
I mean not literally of course but that’s pretty uncommon if you’re not a catholic philosophy student

>> No.16871299

>>16869444
Chekt

>> No.16871637

>>16871291
How long did the fluency in writing and speech take you to refine in all of these languages?

>> No.16871790

>>16869184
Writing truly interwoven (not tolstoi stlye) multi lingual poetry is the future.
And of course it is incredibly patrician and the only people who oppose this notion are monolinguals or those who struggle with using even jsut two languages.