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Poetry critique thread 2016-05-08 13:30:31 Post No.8012637
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Come on, let them loose.
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My scarf rojo is wrapped around my neck
like the noose that ties me to the gibbet-lintel
of propriety. I rip it off
and it flutters in the wind with the sound of the wings of a bird negro
that is batting with all his strength
and is letting the wind underwing
that he would fly, fly, fly away.
I hold the scarf high above my head
with one hand as the other grips the bicycle handle
and it catches the wind roaring into its battlefield
that is encircled by clouds
and it does a war dance that it hails its passing.
I loosen my grip, or maybe the wind is too strong for me,
but my scarf rojo, fluttering violently in jubilation,
it slips my grasp and is lost forever
in the tumbling wildness of the Tierra del Fuego.
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GLOIRE
L'averse couleur de lézard,
Subtilement,
Fille enfin nue t'a mêlée
A l'été; pur.
Tu es le soleil gonflant l'étoile
De ses rayons,
Beauté flottante dans ses voiles
D'illusion.
Voici comme une épée qui saigne
L'astre de chair,
Quand d'aube luisante et de braise
Brille la mer...
Not mine
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I am required to read The Book Thief for English class.
Is it worth reading or should I just use noting websites and find relevant quotes for my essay?
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>>8065507
It's good and worth reading imo.
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the main hero has a vagina
instantly drop
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No its pretty shit.
I got about half way through. As absurd as such a things sounds is a cliche novel about the holocaust.
>mfw Infinite Jest is just this movie
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Infinite Jest the joke that keeps on going.
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>>8065415
Sort of a never ending humorous anecdote.
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>>8065389
Say the name of the movie, faggot
I am very new to this board, never been on it before, Ive read all high school level essentials, jekyll and hyde, old man and the sea, lotf, etc, I found a few essential charts online and was wondering where I could start, Already read the sticky and it was too much, far too many books to choose from, is this chart a meme? Or do you guys suggest reading these?
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You obviously didn'treadthe sticky very closely or you'd've found the starter kit enclosed to the left.
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>>8065314
Sorry m8 im a cunt. thx
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>>8065316
;^)
That tier chart looks like a decent alternative. Just remove the tiers.
are platitudes literature?
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no they're latitutudes
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>>8065187
i like your attitude :^)
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>>8065188
I appreciate the gratitude.
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I just finished a collection of Pound's poetry, and I have come to the realization that there will not be a poet of the same magnitude since our academic institutions have completely derailed. To save art, we need to change University standards.
If you disagree with me, please explain why I am wrong. I would like to feel differently, since this realization makes me feel uneasy.
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>>8065125
A poet doesn't have to be educated in an academic institution, I'm not sure how that's at all relevant.
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>>8065128
but someone as great as Pound had a great education. it's very relevant, since the thread is about him and poets alike.
If you are right, who is a modern poet with no formal education that's of a similar caliber?
I'm saying, I want to sustain his spirit and lineage of poetry, but it's not possible if nobody cares or standards continue to be low.
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We just have to find some bright /pol/ users and lock them in a steel box for a few years. Humans are like olives, they give their best when they are crushed.
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Book you dare your friends to read 2016-05-21 04:40:58 Post No.8065106
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Book you dare your friends to read
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>Pic related
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>>8065106
why would you dare someone to read that?
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I dare /lit to read this all the time. but they think they are to stupid or something.
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What am I in for?
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Baseball.
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>>8064998
disappointment
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>>8064998
It's practically a brochure just fucking read it
How the fuck did anyone read this in the 40s without a guide? i'm being serious..
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nigga they were the ones making the guides.
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i guess either they were an english professor whose job was to study literature, or they took a course taught by one.
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That book is an abomination. Joyce went full pretentious fedora with it.
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Do audiobooks have less merit than paper or digital books that you have to read?
If a person only "reads" audiobooks can they really be considered a real fan of literature?
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No.
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audiobooks = passive activity
reading = active activity
not quite the same
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>>8064837
>active activity
and that is "better" because....?
Writers who chain smoke while they work. Who has kicked the habit and has it affected your relationship with writing, the act of writing in particular.
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>>8064699
Yes, they may. And so are you?
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>>8064744
What?
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Anybody up for a bit of a game/test?
I came here to get some help with my writers block but figured perhaps I could extend what I wanted to anyone else willing to participate. What I wanted was to ask you guys to submit an: idea, metaphor, character, setting, theme, picture, etc., that I could write about--while also dictating whether it be prose or verse. Then I'll take a few hours to do my best to write about it interestingly (obvious troll submissions will be disregarded).
I then figured I'd extend it into a thread where anyone else who would like to partake may say so and do so. This way, it's like a spur of the moment, throwaway critique thread that helps get the brain into a writing mood. Or else, not even a critique thread, but still an attempt to help break some writers block.
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Anime becomes real, hilarity ensues.
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>>8064676
The only real anime I watched was DBZ when I was younger. I never got into it now that I'm older, so I'm not sure how well I could do with that in a few hours.
But it's the only suggestion for now. Do you want prose it verse?
And would you also want a suggestion and to try this out?
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In Chicago, IL., a Hellenistic Polytheist and revivalist of Alexander the Great's Empire finds himself endowed with extremely powerful telekinesis and grapples with his role in the progression of mankind.
or some shit
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I remember seeing a really detailed infographic here that provided a kind of flowchart for approaching the Classics. If someone could post it again that would be great. I want to try to knock out a bunch of this over the summer.
It was like this infographic but with a much broader scope
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>>8064424
You mean this senpai?
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It was laid out like the picture in the OP, but this is very good as well. Many thanks
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this one for the greeks?
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Where are those threads, /lit/? I'm disappointed.
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these threads are better
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>>8064464
*tips*
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>>8064465
what is tipping* about this
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Holy shit, how have I never heard of this brilliant man?
This is some of the best anti-Marx, anti-collectivism stuff I've ever read, and this guy's background was completely working class
>>The explosive component in the contemporary scene is not the clamor of the masses but the self-righteous claims of a multitude of graduates from schools and universities. This army of scribes is clamoring for a society in which planning, regulation, and supervision are paramount and the prerogative of the educated. They hanker for the scribe's golden age, for a return to something like the scribe-dominated societies of ancient Egypt, China, and Europe of the Middle Ages. There is little doubt that the present trend in the new and renovated countries toward social regimentation stems partly from the need to create adequate employment for a large number of scribes. And since the tempo of the production of the literate is continually increasing, the prospect is of ever-swelling bureaucracies.
>There is not an idea that cannot be expressed in 200 words. But the writer must know precisely what he wants to say. If you have nothing to say and want badly to say it, then all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice.
>It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power — power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
>They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society. The frustrated, oppressed by their shortcomings, blame their failure on existing restraints. Actually, their innermost desire is for an end to the "free for all." They want to eliminate free competition and the ruthless testing to which the individual is continually subjected in a free society.
This is a perfect critique of every asinine social movement we have today in America:
>Hoffer argued that fanatical and extremist cultural movements, whether religious or political, arose under predictable circumstances: when large numbers of people come to believe that their individual lives are worthless and ruined, that the modern world is irreparably corrupt, and that hope lies only in joining a larger group that demands radical changes.
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I had to look him up
Seems pretty based, kept working on the docks even after getting published
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>>8064288
>/pol/ thinking marxist philosophy is at all relevant in present-day geopolitics, or anywhere outside of the plebosphere
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>>8064342
Marxism was a tool of political destabilization used by capitalists to break up established governments that were not willing to lay down. McCarthyites are dumb as fuck.