/lit/ do you ever find yourself being deeply moved by poetry?

I assume you don't have much eperience with poetry. If you didn't grow up reading a lot of poetry, you don't really have the sensitivity to appreciate it on a first glance. The biggest mistake people have when starting to read poetry is that they just kind of read it once, and then not think about it much. I advise you to be more patient with poetry, reread poems you like, and memorize and recite them to yourself, make it a part of you.

maybe you just havent found the right one

>>8422460
>I advise you to be more patient with poetry, reread poems you like, and memorize and recite them to yourself, make it a part of you.
I always do this, it's how I've grown to really love certain poetry. But even my biggest favorites (who can occupy my mind a lot) doesn't give me strong emotional reactions. They're good, they made me think, they're beautiful... but I don't cry or laugh or feel despair or become depressed or whatever.

I find it very moving. Most poems are like you described, but there are some that are profoundly affecting.

>>8422480

Well, some people just aren't "into" music or movies or books, and I guess you just aren't into poetry.

the best feeling i get with poetry is realizing how everything works with each other after multiple readings down to the word choice and mechanics of it all. modernists really do it for me in this regard

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>>8422508
I can tell you're calling me anti-intellectual between the lines.

>>8422517

I assure you I meant no insult. I never get hugely emotional when listening to music, I dunno why, but I can still enjoy it and it doesn't bother me that much.

(Although you interpreting my post that way shows me there's probably something wrong with you.)

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>>8422534
>(Although you interpreting my post that way shows me there's probably something wrong with you.)

>>8422430
When I read Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen, I seriously tear up.

Leaves of Grass

>>8422430
Poetry is far more moving than prose, I think everyone would agree. Just half an hour ago I had tears in my eyes reading Frost at Midnight by Coleridge. Honestly, poetry is my true love.

Try reading The Exile's Letter by Li Bai, trans. Ezra Pound:
http://www.bartleby.com/265/299.html

The ending is a gut punch. The first time I read this poem I closed the book, hugged it and kissed the cover.

>>8422517
Not the guy you're talking to, but it's a matter of sensibility, not intelligence. I am of a terribly Romantic sensibility, so I love poetry. But not everyone is.

>>8422460
retard

>>8422430
>poetry
>oh that's pretty prose

yo like wtf man haha

>>8422517
Man, you're really insure and that's okay, but I hope one day you'll realize that you don't need to fit some ideal you've conceived for yourself, we will still accept and love you regardless.

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>>8422938
Then why do you all bully me when I post about how Ulysses was 2hard4me2understand?

>>8422953
Because we're all insecure too, and one way we keep it at bay by propping ourselves up at others expense. The ego is a house of cards. It's not a personal attack against you, it's focused inward, satisfying a need to be validated as intelligent we all suffer from.

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>>8422977
you're a better person than any of us, Anon