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17671607 No.17671607 [Reply] [Original]

How do I get into poetry friends? Should I not bother and just stick with prose?

>> No.17671614

>>17671607
Read some ;)

>> No.17671628 [DELETED] 

Paradise Lost
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
The anthologies recommended on /lit/ wiki
English Romantic Poetry (Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Blake)
Yeats

>> No.17671643 [DELETED] 

Shakespeare, Donne, and Marvell.

>> No.17671673

>>17671628
>>17671643
I'm not asking for recommendations I'm asking HOW to read a poem. I try to read poems and don't get much from them.

>> No.17671678

>>17671607
pupy pupy why so small :3?
fit in arms of frog!

>> No.17671693

>>17671673
you're a retard. just stick to prose.

>> No.17671727

>>17671607
For me, it was the Iliad translated by Alexander Pope

>> No.17672724

bump

>> No.17672761

>>17671673
is this your first day using a website https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki/Poetry

>> No.17672849

>>17672761
Having just gone through the five intro to poetry books you can skip Hollander and Mary Oliver.

>> No.17672864

>>17672849
can i also skip mason and fry? fussell seems the only good one

>> No.17672881

>>17672864
Mason is more of a traditional textbook and has the added benefit of coming with an anthology in the back. So you can sample full poems and figure out your tastes. Fry I had my doubts about but it was surprisingly informative and very entry level friendly. They all more or less cover the same information.

>> No.17672885

>>17671673
Read what you like. And then you will find yourself liking more things.

>> No.17672942

>>17672881
is there anything that is missing in fusell or what's the point of reading others?

>> No.17673082

>>17672942
I read all five just to really hammer it in my head. Oliver and Hollander write for people already familiar with poetry. Fussell isn’t missing anything. It hits all the major topics you need for English poetry.

>> No.17673109

>>17673082
i admire your dedication to read all of them lol

>> No.17673123

>>17673109
I did get something from each one even if at times it felt repetitive.

>> No.17673132

>>17673123
what poetry are you gonna read now?

>> No.17673157

I’d say the main thing is to just slow down. Most poetry isn’t going to be as immediately comprehensible as prose. Read the poem once through then work line by line/ stanza by stanza summarizing or paraphrasing various parts (looking up words you don’t know, possible allusions, etc).

>> No.17673295

>>17671607
This list from Harold Bloom got me started.
Poems

A. E. Housman "Into My Heart an Air That Kills"

William Blake "The Sick Rose"

Walter Savage Landor "On His Seventy-fifth Birthday"

Alfred Lord Tennyson "The Eagle" and "Ulysses

Robert Browning "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"

Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"

Emily Dickinson "Poem 1260 - Because That You Are Going"

Emily Bronte "Stanzas: Often Rebuked, Yet Always Back Returning"

Popular Ballads "Sir Patrick Spence" and "The Unquiet Grave"

Anonymous "Tom O'Bedlam"

Shakespeare's "Sonnet 121 - Tis Better to Be Vil Than Vile Esteemed" and "Sonnet 129 - The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame" and "Sonnet 144 - Two Loves I have, of Comfort and Despair"

John Milton "Paradise Lost"

William Wordsworth "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" and "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Triumph of Life"

John Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

>> No.17673321

Imagine if people still lurked and used the sticky and shit maybe this board wouldn’t be such fucking trash making a thread every 10 seconds for your latest inane thought

>> No.17673348

>>17673321
Such is the essence of 4chan

>> No.17673364

>>17673132
I just finished Richmond Lattimores translation of the Greek Lyrics and will start Anne Carson’s translation of Sappho. After that I plan to read The Oxford Book of English Verse vol. 1