Reminder that if you don't memorize a poem once a week at the very least, then you can't even come close to calling yourself a patrician.
>>8320157
I have dozens of poems memorized, from short rhyming ones to Ulysses, Prufrock, and Thanatopsis, and I'm still far from patrician. What went wrong?
>>8320160
You're a faggot.
>>8320160
Keep working at it, my son.
>>8320165
That would actually make me more patrician if true.
>tfw memorized hundreds of lines of poetry but never have occasion to demonstrate
feelsbadman
>tfw I have a few poems in my head that I can mull over when bored and am constantly uncovering new meanings from the text
feelsgoodman
>>8320222
There is no greater feeling then calling forth some Yeats and impressing a QT with it, anon.
>>8320239
>cringe thread
>*cringed*
>*still cringing*
>*will continue to cringe for the duration of this thread*
>...
>yup still cringing
>>8320384
go back to r/books
>>8320160
Wow, you memorized all of Ulysses???? It's not a poem though, lol..............
>>8320157
I love this old man.
>>8320239
I was expecting you to say something like enjoying the poem for its aesthetic qualities, and I was about to agree, but instead you decided to be a fag
>>8320384
It's dumb but it works, kind of like how porn dialog sounds awful until you find yourself saying it during sex.