Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 1623. page

>>9212855
You got to get off the syllables and on the ictus.

if you plan to publish i don't think it's worth it; the golden age of poetry is gone and i doubt it'll ever come back. all contemporary poetry is just free verse emotional masturbatory trash.

>>9212855
Practice more. Pick a topic and write a sonnet. It doesn't have to be good, just follow the form and practice.
No one sits down at the piano their first time and plays something beautiful, they need to practice and study. So do you.

Jacques Prévert

Some XXth or XIXth century literature would surely be more appropriate,classical literature being far more difficult to read. Perhaps some short stories quite pleasing, simple but elegant and easily understandable would be Prosper Mérimée's ones. At least you can give it a try.

>>9212808
ok

>>9212808
For me, it's the McChicken. Intelligent, nihilistic, with a WICKED sense of humor. I usually ask for extra McChicken sauce packets and the staff is so friendly and more than willing to oblige.

One time I asked for McChicken sauce packets and they gave me three. I said, "Wow, three for free!" and the nice friendly McDonald's worker laughed and said, "I'm going to call you 3-for-free!".

Now the staff greets me with "hey it's 3-for-free!" and ALWAYS give me three packets. It's such a fun and cool atmosphere at my local McDonald's restaurant, I go there at least 3 times a week for lunch and a large iced coffee with milk instead of cream, 1-2 times for breakfast on the weekend, and maybe once for dinner when I'm in a rush but want a great meal that is affordable, fast, and can match my daily nutritional needs.

I even dip my fries in McChicken sauce, it's delicious! What a great restaurant.

For me, it's masturbation in the late afternoon.

>>9212710
>Fagles

It's shit.

>>9212710
I think its got some books on it.
You should read some of those.

>>9212710
>LotGH
10/10

[–]penispenis9 2 Punkte vor 16 Stunden

The arbitrary creation of a concept by a person sitting in a room thinking about something is not analogous to the creation of the concept of morality. Morality didn't come from nowhere, it has a real history. Bad analogy. All creation is not equal

OP btfo by a redditor. SAD!

It's worth investigating because we have strong intuitions about what concept1 says we should do in certain situations, so it's useful to try to formalize those intuitions together into some coherent generalization so that we know what the concept1 recommendation is for more ambiguous situations, where we intuitively want to follow concept1 but don't as easily intuit the right course of action. It's precisely because we want to develop coherent theories of action that follow certain of our concept1 intuitions that generalizations are interesting.

>ask* subreddits
Jesus Anon those are almost as bad as the bad* subreddits, why would you even bother?

>Ferris
>gay
DELET THIS

>>9212665
Ferris loves cock

>>9212631
I wish Ferris was real and my boyfriend.

>>9212613
The End of an Affair by Graham Greene
The Master of Hestviken by Sigrid Undset
Barrabas by Per Lagervist
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Silence by Shuskau Endo
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
laurus by eugene vodolazkin
Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Les Miserables by Hugo

I personally am not a fan of Flannery OConnor, but others here love him. Disregard Wolfe posters. Consider Hillaire Belloc

>>9212613
>religious fiction
Biggest tautology I've ever read

>>9212689
And a hearty dip o the ol fedora to you too

>>9212517
awful book
only lefty shills would push this moron. the 19th century paul ryan.

>>9212517
political cartoons were so much better in those days

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>>9212464

>>9212464
Look at him. Look at his face, goddamn it. Who'd even want to marry that thing?

>>9212464
Lovecraft's racism is overblown, he was a man of his time.

Haven't read it, sorry

>>9212468
it's okay, what are you reading rn?

>>9212473
Currently? Dry academic lit for my history studies, which is almost the exact opposite of what Moore seems to be doing here

>>9212408
1) no
2) ?
3) alienate yourself" -fixed for you
And yes.
4) ?

Speaking eloquently = fag

>>9212408

It is better to speak to people in language they can understand unless they have an interest in learning new words in which case is probably not in spoken dialogue, but in reading.

People will consider you pretentious and condescending if you speak above their level. That's the short simple truth of it even if that's not your intention.

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>>9212344

>>9212300
Good prose and it makes me feel. Good book.

1. Álvaro de Campos
2. Bernardo Soares
3. Alberto Caeiro

90001. Ricardo Reis

>>9212300
"We never know self-realization.
We are two abysses-a well staring at the sky."

It's also important to remember that Pessoa was a warlock

tl;dr penis mom

me lol

>>9212292
Wrong.

read every book of literary merit you are interested in, you will retain language to be deployed at will. If you read specifically for that purpose you'll end up talking like a stilted politician

>>9212359
Thanks for the honest and helpful information.