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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:25:59 No.7294753 View Reply Report Delete

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Hey
Hey /lit/
Let's talk poetry
>Favorite Poet,
>Favorite Epic Poem
>Favorite Short Poem
>Do You Write Poetry?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:29:48 No.7294772 Report Delete

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>>7294753
Blake
Odyssey
Do Not Go Gentle
Badly

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:30:05 No.7294773 Report Delete

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>>7294753
>qt
>it's actually an ugly autistic faggot

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:31:03 No.7294777 Report Delete

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>>7294773
All chickens look like that dude

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:32:15 No.7294781 Report Delete

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>QT Bird
are you kidding me chickens are fucking ugly

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:33:18 No.7294783 Report Delete

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the concept of favorites is such a banal platitude.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:40:10 No.7294810 Report Delete

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>>7294753
>favorite poet
Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, Edmund Spenser, Rainer Maria Rilke atm, Pound, Thomas Campion, I like Thomas Beddoes, Alexander Pope is the king of satire. Goulding's Ovid is wondrous, obviously Shakespeare as if it needs to be said.
>favorite epic
Song of Myself. If you don't consider it an epic shame on you, but The Faerie Queene in that case.
>Favorite short poem
Uh, I don't know. Crane's Voyages, Rilke's Liebeslied. Crane's Virginia is a cute one. Whitman's Lilacs, dozens of Shakespeare's sonnets, many of Sidney's sonnets. Ashbery's Painter, Donne's The Ecstasy.
>Do you write poetry?
for years. publish it too

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:42:42 No.7294819 Report Delete

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>>7294783
i know its funny to refute others thoughts but still only fun,nothing else.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:43:38 No.7294823 Report Delete

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who is this cum plum?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:43:51 No.7294825 Report Delete

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>Favorite Poet,
Scatman Jones
>Favorite Epic Poem
The Marajahadphadda
>Favorite Short Poem
Winter by Tomas Tranströmer by Elytis
>Do You Write Poetry?
Published in two literary journals.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:45:20 No.7294829 Report Delete

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>>7294825
Patrician choices m8 gj

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:57:54 No.7294868 Report Delete

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Milton

Paradise Lost

Depending on definition of short poetry: Samson Agonistes / Bright Star or Never Give All the Heart

Ye

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 15:01:11 No.7294880 Report Delete

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Wallace Stevens
Paradise Lost
maybe Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
No

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 15:04:17 No.7294892 Report Delete

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>>7294753
Poe
Horatius at the Bridge
The Sleeper
I think up decent poems but never get them on paper

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 15:07:35 No.7294900 Report Delete

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Ovid
The Metamorphoses
Crane's The Broken Tower
I stopped trying a few months ago

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 15:16:18 No.7294920 Report Delete

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>Paul Celan
>Don Juan, Divine Comedy
>Except for many unnamed ones by Celan - Ashbery's "Some Trees", "The Painter".
>Yeah, I even published a book

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:06:53 No.7295116 Report Delete

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>>7294783
>banal platitude.
as is this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:26:52 No.7296156 Report Delete

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Bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:34:21 No.7296184 Report Delete

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>>7294753
Morrison
his life
ghost song
yes

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:41:53 No.7296209 Report Delete

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>>7294753
>Rainer Rilke, Conrad Aiken, Hart Crane
>I don't care for epics
>Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (it changes with the wind though)
>Yep

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 09:09:38 No.7297854 Report Delete

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>>7294753
I automatically want to marry this person.

Anyway I don't like much poetry. But let's try this.

>Favorite Poet,
Don't have one.

>Favorite Epic Poem
Mahabharata. What I've read of it.

>Favorite Short Poem
One I read in a literary journal. One of the few poems that really inject any feeling into me. I can't remember the name, though.

>Do You Write Poetry?
Sometimes, just to warm up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 09:35:48 No.7297893 Report Delete

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>>7294753
I'm almost impervious to poetry.... Do I miss something ?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 10:30:01 No.7298016 Report Delete

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>>7294777
enderetted pest

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 10:33:08 No.7298025 Report Delete

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>>7294781
u mutherfuker i wil be fuking yor mother u son of bich, top top top secret see u biching hed, i wil put my lulla in her vagina u little shitty basterd, then i wil be yor new dad u shit!! u wil respect me i am yor dad u shitty dickbich bloody basterd!!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 10:37:47 No.7298037 Report Delete

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>>7297893
Yes, obviously

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 10:51:09 No.7298079 Report Delete

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>Favorite Poet
e.e. cummings
>Favorite Epic Poem
Nibelungenlied/Odyssey
>Favorite Short Poem
2 little whos (e.e. cummings)
>Do You Write Poetry?
Yes, sometimes (I mostly write plays)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 10:52:32 No.7298085 Report Delete

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>>7294920
>Yeah, I even published a book
Could you share the name?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 11:11:13 No.7298144 Report Delete

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>Blake
>Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Blake) / The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock (Eliot)
>Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward (Sexton) / For the Last Wolverine (Dickey)
>Not as well or as often as I used to

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:11:17 No.7299069 Report Delete

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>>7294781
chickens are cute CUTE

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:13:19 No.7299075 Report Delete

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>>7294753
Hey, hey
You, you
I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way
I think you need a new one
Hey, hey
You, you
I could be your girlfriend
Hey, hey
You, you
I know that you like me
No way, no way
No, it's not a secret
Hey, hey
You, you
I want to be your girlfriend

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:13:26 No.7299077 Report Delete

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>>7294753
me
my diary
my napkin
no

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:17:57 No.7299098 Report Delete

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>>7294777
Ah, le old Reddit didgeridoo!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:18:47 No.7299102 Report Delete

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>>7294753
E.E Cummings
Songs of Myself (if that counts)
Harlem by Langston Hughes
Yeah i do, i am pretty decent at it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:19:54 No.7299108 Report Delete

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>>7299102
Song of Myself*
sry

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:22:08 No.7299116 Report Delete

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Eluard and Yeats
Don't have one
Yeats' Leda and the Swan (and the Second Coming obviously)
Yes but I don't have the balls to show it to anyone

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:23:51 No.7299122 Report Delete

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Now that we're alone we can talk prince man to man
though you lie on the stairs and see no more than a dead ant
nothing but black sun with broken rays
I could never think of your hands without smiling
and now that they lie on the stone like fallen nests
they are as defenceless as before The end is exactly this
The hands lie apart The sword lies apart The head apart
and the knight's feet in soft slippers

You will have a soldier's funeral without having been a soldier
the only ritual I am acquainted with a little
There will be no candles no singing only cannon-fuses and bursts
crepe dragged on the pavement helmets boots artillery horses drums
drums I know nothing exquisite
those will be my manoeuvres before I start to rule
one has to take the city by the neck and shake it a bit

Anyhow you had to perish Hamlet you were not for life
you believed in crystal notions not in human clay
always twitching as if asleep you hunted chimeras
wolfishly you crunched the air only to vomit
you knew no human thing you did not know even how to breathe

Now you have peace Hamlet you accomplished what you had to
and you have peace The rest is not silence but belongs to me
you chose the easier part an elegant thrust
but what is heroic death compared with eternal watching
with a cold apple in one's hand on a narrow chair
with a view of the ant-hill and the clock's dial

Adieu prince I have tasks a sewer project
and a decree on prostitutes and beggars
I must also elaborate a better system of prisons
since as you justly said Denmark is a prison
I go to my affairs This night is born
a star named Hamlet We shall never meet
what I shall leave will not be worth a tragedy

It is not for us to greet each other or bid farewell we live on archipelagos
and that water these words what can they do what can they do prince

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:30:44 No.7299148 Report Delete

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>>7294825
Who is Scatman Jones? I can't find anything about him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:52:54 No.7299213 Report Delete

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>>7299122
Shit son, this is fantastic, thanks for the discovery

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 17:03:54 No.7299255 Report Delete

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>>7294753
>Poet
Emerson
>Epic
Sohrab and Rustum
>Short
O Captain! My Captain!
>Do you write?
Yes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 17:16:41 No.7299311 Report Delete

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>>7298085
"מן גנעדנום", in hebrew. Translates to "Kind of an Heaven-hell", I guess.
I'm not too fond of it nowdays, as I am working on a new and quite different book, but I'll be happy to translate a couple poems if you're curious.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 18:20:48 No.7299580 Report Delete

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I don't "get" poetry.
Are you supposed to vocalize it? Or read it to yourself? Because when I just read it in my head, I don't hear the rhymes at all.
And I have trouble finding the flow of the narrative, like it keeps jumping out of focus.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 18:30:55 No.7299619 Report Delete

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>>7299580
You're supposed to memorize it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 18:31:33 No.7299625 Report Delete

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Giacomo Leopardi
The Odyssey
Ma Bohème by Rimbaud
Yes, usually lyric poetry in free verses (they're actually written in regular metrical lines, but they're not rhymed, I don't know how they are called in English)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 18:35:04 No.7299637 Report Delete

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>>7299619
I once did 40 lines of Goethe's Faust for school.
Was nice I guess. One of the few people who actually knew how to use german right.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 19:20:22 No.7299791 Report Delete

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>>7299580
You definitely don't have to "memorize it". Just subvocalize. I know some people who claim to keep track and appreciate the rhymes and meters without subvocalizing, but I don't even understand how it's possible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 19:27:04 No.7299820 Report Delete

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>>7294753
You browse me_irl too?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 19:45:09 No.7299901 Report Delete

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>>7299820
Nope, they stole it from my vine

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 19:55:49 No.7299945 Report Delete

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>>7294753
This bitch looks like my cousin I want to bang.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 19:59:29 No.7299961 Report Delete

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>>7294753
Not sure, Omar Khayyam maybe.
Martin Fierro
Tamerlan - Borges, (was it plagiarized from Poe?)
No.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:01:26 No.7299968 Report Delete

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>>7294753
Is it me, or we have more poetry threads on lit after Bolanho got popular?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 00:44:21 No.7300939 Report Delete

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>>7299820
m e t o o t h a n k s

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 13:53:27 No.7302805 Report Delete

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>>7299945
>bitch
what a nasty way to speak about a pretty lass you've never met

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:04:20 No.7304010 Report Delete

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Aeneid" - Virgil
"Journey of The Magi" - Eliot
I do not

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:15:44 No.7304068 Report Delete

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>>7299968
no people started making more threads after flowerposter started replying to them all

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