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Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the Sun:
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the travellers journey is done.

Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow:
Arise from their graves and aspire,
Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.

>>9598445
Who wrote that?
I'm sorry only poem i know is by pushkine :

Я вac любил: любoвь eщe, быть мoжeт
B дyшe мoeй yгacлa нe coвceм;
Ho пycть oнa вac бoльшe нe тpeвoжит;
Я нe хoчy пeчaлить вac ничeм.
Я вac любил бeзмoлвнo, бeзнaдeжнo,
To poбocтью, тo peвнocтью тoмим;
Я вac любил тaк иcкpeннo, тaк нeжнo,
Кaк дaй вaм бoг любимoй быть дpyгим.


I loved you once: perhaps that love has yet
To die down thoroughly within my soul;
But let it not dismay you any longer;
I have no wish to cause you any sorrow.
I loved you wordlessly, without a hope,
By shyness tortured, or by jealousy.
I loved you with such tenderness and candor
And pray God grants you to be loved that way again.

And it's because my mom is Russian and just loves his poetry.

>>9598422
Entry level but this is the first poem that I actually liked https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/44212 I'm not into the old fashioned "Ah! Beautiful youth" kinda poetry and am more into modernist and confessional stuff so this is what I gravitate towards.

This is also pretty good https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/49013 Background is that the narrator is in the hospital after a suicide attempt

I don't know how you feel about listening to poems but I feel like it's help you appreciate them more because of the rhythm and so on https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LioRmN7u2iU

>implying the tragic story of my waifu's struggle with the human condition isn't nobel prize worthy

>Implying my epic poem about someone taking the redpill and killing cucks isn't nobel prize worthy

>implying my wife's son's diary isn't nobel prize worthy

>>9598384
I studie Geography and economics with the goal to be working in the field of City planing. The average wage is about 80.000€ a year here in europe.
Idk about the US but studying is worth it

I literally can't express how much better my life has been since I attended Oxford. I went to a state school and gradually became the stereotypical moody, withdrawn sensitive type who both despises the quality of his immediate culture and feels a weird pride for having been raised in a sort of anti-intellectual and brutal environment. I was all set to take my Russell Group humanities BA and spend my life working as an anonymous, insecure wageslave forever thankful of being offered a job and forever too insecure to pursue my creative ambitions. The chip on my shoulder had become something of a wedge, and I felt too out of place regardless of my environment, too resentful and bitter to even attempt to make it in the artistic world. Then I finally applied for Oxford and got in to study an English MA, with reassurance that should I work hard enough a career in academia or within one of Oxford's affiliated companies would be almost guaranteed. I turned up as apprehensive as usual, and the first few days were spent regretting my decision and desperately feigning a cultured personality. But then I realized that the people there were just interesting and that the snobbery and exclusivity I had anticipated was just a myth borne out of my working class upbringing. I've since graduated, having spend the year dining in grand halls with groups of interesting people, dating several girls (one of whom, a petite Russian whose family traces back to the aristocracy, is now my fiancee). I work four days a week at a publishing company and earn £38k a year. I regularly meet up with friends from my college and visit Oxford for nights out and for meetings with my professors. The Martin Eden-esque novel I have been writing for two years has been selected for publication at a major British publishing house and, honestly, I could not have imagined a few years ago how great life could be. I come on /lit/ and see how pathetic you all are and just shake my head and chuckle. If I saw you guys on the street I would of course throw you a penny or discuss Bukowski or whatever "realist" writers you enjoy, but ultimately I would be able to tell within ten seconds if you're an Oxbridge grad and would dismiss you as a potential source of good company if you are not. I never thought I'd know what it was like to be objectively better than somebody else, for the value of my existence to be superior to the value of a stranger's, but now I do and I've never been happier. People are awed by power and prestige. All I need to do is mention the university I attended (if only for a year) and they immediately begin to hunch and look at their feet because they know they are in the presence of greatness.

>>9598411
this

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Wittgenstein am Imbiss:
"Was darf es sein?"
"Die Frage ist sinnlos."

>>9598378
Vasteh ich nich

>>9598357
The analytical philosopher will accuse the continental philosopher of being insufficiently clear, the continental will accuse the analytical of being insufficiently.

>white CIS male

We're not interested dude. It's 2017. Don't you get it?

The age of white men is over. The age of the Orc has arrived.

>>9598616
Lel

OP you obviously wanted a sincere conversation here so I'll bite. I just bought this book on kindle and I've read about ten pages. It's okay. You can tell it's a children's author, but it isn't all bad. Sort of like a small-time George Saunders with the excitability of John Green. A nu-male Sherwood Anderson.

where do you guys find mommies like this? I'm thinking about trading mine out for a better one. the old hag would never make me breakfast in bath. nevermind how she lets me grope her when I sleep between her and daddy.

>>9598199
>mommy shouts upstairs asking I want breakfast
Stopped reading. I'd rather live in the South Side of Chicago and work a shitty minimum wage job than live with the wretched cunt that is my dear mother.

>>9598199
What's eggs and soldiers?

>Nazi
>Conservative
Choose one.

Schmitt was also, by the way, an opponent of the Nazis until they won power, then he joined them. Maybe he thought he could bring them down from the inside?

He's a good writer, and I'm usually pretty excited by his work while I'm reading it, but I find that his insights are more suggestive then substantive and I end up not retaining that much when I'm down. I do love the idea from The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy that fascism is more democratic than liberal democracy and use it to annoy my lefty friends all the fucking time.

>>9598173
Johann was a better Schmitt philosophy wise senpai

and why

I'm going into my junior year. Is it too late to minor in math? I would have to start with Calc I

Economics is that high? I mean, my IQ is that high, but I never knew that was the average IQ for econ majors. Nearly all of my peers were total dumbasses.

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Free Books for life my dude.

>>9598075
Disappointment when you realize you should have bought an Oasis. However, you're still better off than you were without one. You'll probably read more than you used to as well.

>>9598075
an instant dictionary for words you dont know. normally id figure out the general idea from the context, but its great to be able to check it straight away

>>9598001
Spinoza was the first to examine the Bible in a non theological manner; start there.

The Art of the Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter
The David Story by Robert Alter
How to Read the Bible by Brettler

Bloom did exactly that in 'The Shadow of a Great Rock'.

>>9597957
bump

>>9597969
Here, have *two* bumps

>>9597957
You gotta be a good public speaker as well, and have a good instagram, or otherwise you won't be invited to talk on Dr Oz.

Granted, anons on here have made money off porn novels when that shit is free everywhere, so I don't know why selling 400 of pic related won't make you some cash.

>>9597683
philosophy doesn't owe the world shit

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does this count

The irony is that if you'd read Hegel, you'd understand the senselessness of trying to decry the notion of a line of thought somehow "falling into disaster."

>>9597578
no

>>9597578
I started learning Latin recently because I wanted some grounding in the classical tradition. Since I just started learning, I don't know much but I'm already starting to have second thoughts about it. I haven't read any Latin literature, but it seems to me that Latin is more of a political language than an artistic one, which is why Latin literature doesn't seem to be very highly acclaimed, at least not compared to Greek literature. You may end up spending years just to learn a language that no one other than a few geeks speaks anymore, and whose literature isn't particularly famous.

>>9597608
Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and Catullus are considered some of the best poets in the canon. Start with Horace's Odes. You'll see their influence in everything: Milton, Dryden, Johnson, Marvell, Tennyson, Keats, Pound, Housman, Auden, and Frost.

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>he is not getting bitches

>>9597469
>>9597483
because people don't fucking pay me to be an anti-guru

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>>9597490

Ug couldn't take care of himself after the calamity. Instead he had bitches take care of him. Hate the game not the playa

Alienation

rape

>>9597442
Incestuous molestation

He rapes his sister