Name some critical books…
elements of style, by strunk and white
critical of every dipshit who mis-used an apostrophe.
What edition of Piers Plowman would be fine for a non native English speaker?
If your pointing out that you are a non native speaker comes from assuming that native speakers usually read the original, I doubt that's the case.
Otherwise if you speak German or French, the middle english version should probably be manageable, but a very slow read.
Wisdom is understanding the hypocrisies of society while recognizing you are guilty of the same hypocrisies.
>>7708686
Definitely.
Why is it that travelogues written by men describe the place, while travelogues written by women describe themselves in the place?
>>7708682
Because women are self centered. Just look at your average woman that goes to Africa to "help."
>women are self-centred, valium popping cunts
Hey /lit/. I'm new to contributing to Wikipedia. How do I format references? Do I just insert the link and the title of the document I linked to? Or is there more to it?
Wikipedia has places to ask this. Fuck off, stop shitting up our board.
Nobody else needs to reply to this.
Why don't you read the wiki page on it? This is not /lit/, go away.
>>7708659
Have fun having your contribution reverted in five minutes
Someone wanna critique this poem I wrote? Also general poetry critique thread.
Lyric go -- Lyric be
Blesséd and with me
Lyric stay -- Lyric show,
How things come to be.
If lyric show -- and lyric know
What had befallen thee,
Then lyric stay -- and lyric play
So all may come to see.
Lyric stay--lyric show..shit happens...then lyric stay again? I don't get it.
How do I get into pulp novels. Is there any online library's of resources I can check out.
Consult the sticky OR go to a library and ask a librarian. They are masters of google-fu.
Is this good for retards like me that can't do more than passive reading?
how are you supposed to read it?
>>7708670
He can get the audio book I suppose.
>>7708670
have a mentor read it to you.
Is there anything I should read before tackling this?
no.
harry potter
>>7708583
Helps if you know some of the history of that era.
Can someone write me a Shakespearean sonnet? Make it about music please
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,
Resembling sire and child and happy mother
Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none.'
Not doing your homework.
Does it say /hw/ at the top? A board for faggot high schoolers who are too damn stupid to do simple homework assignments?
Anyone have any poems or prose or quotes that helped pull them out of depression?
This probably gets asked a lot here, but if anyone could help out, I'd really appreciate it.
Asking for a friend.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
zorba might help.
my pill's dose has been increased today though, so don't mind me.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/let-it-enfold-you/
I think I figured it out. I was just taking a shit, thinking about people who treat YA literature as if it's on par with actual literature and how there is no argument against "It's just your opinion." Of course you could talk about the superior prose, story and skill etc but that doesn't really mean much. The thing is, a book like Harry Potter has no substance or soul. I mean, when Nabokov wrote Lolita, or Kafka wrote The Trial or any other example, they saw something they just had to capture. That's the mark of a truly great artist, they saw something in the world, and it incaptivated them and forced them to depict it. Like the beauty of Mona Lisa or, being more literary, the nature of humanity in Moby Dick. For Harry Potter this isn't there, it's a nice enough story but has no soul. This is all very wishy washy, but I needed to write it down before I forget. Chances are it's all sentimental gibberish. Have a photo of my cat.
Cute cat.
My "opus magnus" or whatever they call it feels like a thing I need to capture, so thanks for making me realise how I felt about it. Ofc I already loved it, but now I know why.
>>7708453
>The thing is, a book like Harry Potter has no substance or soul. I mean, when Nabokov wrote Lolita, or Kafka wrote The Trial or any other example, they saw something they just had to capture. That's the mark of a truly great artist, they saw something in the world
>le artist must communicate something about the society meme
>>7708453
Not really, it just has to be good with a considerable degree of depth. Of all of the YA series lit could use for this type of comparison Harry Potter makes the least sense. As the series goes on its depth increases greatly, it somehow sidesteps PC bullshit, and JK Rowling studied the classics and makes ample reference to them throughout.
No they're not patrician(they're constrained by having to be readable by 12-17 year olds), but they're about as patrician as YA can possibly go.
A few times I've been around that track, so it's not just gonna happen like that 'cause I ain't no
>>7708450
took me a while to get it but I laughed all the same.
Did this pun deserve its own thread tho
we've been over this, its not pronounced like that, nerd (not that i have any clue how u actually pronounce the fucking shit, but pronouncing pleb authors' names isn't something i do often so no worries on my part)
I ain't no who-le-bay?
What?
https://bitchmedia.org/post/a-great-artist-kills-his-wife—now-its-just-a-quirky-footnote-in-his-history
What does /lit/ think of this?
>>7708432
Pretty sure he shout his wife playing william tell
>>7708432
>Leela Ginelle is a journalist, playwright and transgender woman living in Portland, OR.
Someone should play William Tell with her.
>>7708462
>her
Is poetry translatable?
Sometimes, depends on the poem
>>7708428
Some. What Pound describes as melopoiea is very difficult to translate, and is often lost in translation.
Are translations poetic?