Do you have better taste in poetry than reddit? Well /lit/ h

>>8726306
Yes. I don't read poetry, I win by default. Rimbaud doesn't count.
Poetry is as dead an artform as plays and tapdancing.

>>8726312
Then why are you even on the literature board.
>>>/literallyanyotherboard/

>>8726306
Expect all answers here to be Blake, Rimbaud, Pessoa and Crane.

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>>8726306
Nothing extraordinary here, it's what you'd expect reddit's tastes to be; robert frost, dylan thomas, william carlos williams, the usual "saw this poem in an episode of my favorite Netflix drama" tier stuff. nothing particularly wrong with these poets, it's just clear the majority of these people don't actually read poetry, which really shouldn't surprise anyone here or there considering hardly anyone does.

what's the point of this thread? this is a board dedicated to literature, of course you'd expect /lit/ (key word here is expect) to have more refined taste in literature than the "AskReddit" section of a website frequented mostly by average, boring people.

>>8726315
Actual literature, jackass.

>>8726316
Just to be contrarian, I have a soft spot for Robert Frost. Sue me.

>>8726316
>and Crane
please, Stephen maybe. if you mean Harold Hart, there's maybe a handful of people here who actively read him. before I started spamming him a year ago I had never seen him mentioned on this board, even. typical /lit/ answers would be Eliot, any of the high romantics eg Blake, Shelley, Byron etc, Yeats, Milton, and Rimbaud though hardly anyone here speaks french.

>>8726306
cntrl-f:
reading gaol: 0
light brigade: 1
season in hell: 0
ozymandias: 3
Waste Land: 2
go gentle: 3
[compare you to a ]summer[']s day: 0
khubla: 1
the sleeper: 0
Roland: 0
Faerie Queen: 0
Coward Soul: 0
Stop for death/dickinson 27: 0
raven: 2 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Leda and the swan: 1 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

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>>8726334
>faerie queene
come on now, people here never acknowledge Spenser. you really expected results on reddit? not that this place is any better but Spenser is reserved for people that actually read.

>>8726327
>plays and poems are not actual literature
Nice bait senpai

>>8726324
I want to see how people's taste here compare with the absolute normies on reddit. Everyone knows lit is full of college age normies but its still fun to test the waters now and then.

>>8726334
No doubt all 3 read Ozymandias because of Breaking Bad.

>>8726530
>not watchmen

>>8726306
>muh esotericism

>>8726553
>your average Reddit pleb would get the reference to Ozymandias
Nah they saw the trailer to the episode where it was nice and spoonfed to them by Malcolm in the Middle dad, which was and is half of their infatuation with it.

These people. I know these people. In my country they are nothing.

The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall,
The fly her spleen, the little sparks their heat;
The slender hairs cast shadows, though but small,
And bees have stings, although they be not great;
Seas have their source, and so have shallow springs;
And love is love, in beggars as in kings.

When rivers smoothest run, deep are the fords;
The dial stirs, yet none perceives it move;
The firmest faith is in the fewest words;
The turtles cannot sing, and yet they love:
True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak;
They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

>>8726588
>wall to wall half-rhymes

Into the trash

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>>8726306
>ctrl+f
>Evangeline
>0 results
Am I a hipster now?

>>8726306

What is this man's name? I keep seeing him posted?

>>8726625
That's Jimmy Cents

>>8726625
That's Mike 'Amperes for Queers' Pence.

He is he future Vice President and de facto leader of the United States ofAmerica.

>>8726625
Mike "Christian Theocracy or suck my Cockracy" Pence

>>8726306
Their taste in poetry is better than their taste in novels

>>8726625
Mike "AC/DC for LGBT" Pence

>>8726598
you are pronouncing it wrong my dood

>>8726625

That's Mike "Energetic Sodomy? Electric Lobotomy!" Pence

>>8726715
>heat rhymes with great
>fords rhymes with words
>move rhymes with love
>speak rhymes with break

Yeah, sure

>>8726625
That's Mike "Abort that Baby I'll Deport You Maybe" Pence

>>8726725
pronunciation changes over time my friend

>>8726742
Then maybe in a few hundred years it'll be a good poem.

>>8726568
>itt
elitism
then again what else should i expect from 4chan, nevermind /lit/

>>8726306
Eh, not bad. I mean those are all super mega popular poems but decent ones.

My favourite poem is Lycidas.

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
Ezra Pound

While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.
You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.
And we went on living in the village of Chokan:
Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.

At fourteen I married My Lord you.
I never laughed, being bashful.
Lowering my head, I looked at the wall.
Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back.

At fifteen I stopped scowling,
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.
Why should I climb the look out?

At sixteen you departed,
You went into far Ku-to-yen, by the river of swirling eddies,
And you have been gone five months.
The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.

You dragged your feet when you went out.
By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses,
Too deep to clear them away!
The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older.
If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang,
Please let me know beforehand,
And I will come out to meet you
As far as Cho-fu-Sa.

By Rihaku

>>8726761
did kek actually

Ode To Spot

Very simple stuff with solid metre and basic rhymes. of course they eat this shit up

>>8727987
>simplicity is bad

>>8726312
This makes me laugh. Which rock did you crawl from under?
Almost 1 in 10 threads on this board are poetry critique threads, if you haven't noticed.
So much for a dead art-form.

>>8726808
Fuck Ezra Pound. Elliot was the better of the two idiots.

>>8726625

Mike "You suck on a cock, you're getting a shock" Pence.

>>8726306
>Only 4 Blakes and 3 are The Tiger

>>8726625
Mike "If you like sucking dick, prepare to be thrown in my lava pit." Pence, or Mike "If you like cockfighting, prepare to ride the lightning" Pence.

>>8726340
It's so damn long for verse, is it worth it anon? I also heard it's unfinished, but that doesn't bother me as much as how much of a commitment it would be

And also for 1000+ pages, is there a story?

>>8726306
I'm not really sure what the purpose of this retarded thread is, but my favorite poet is O'Hara. I don't necessarily think I have better taste than anyone, because taste is an individual characteristic.
However, I'm definitely poetically more informed than 90% of plebbits, and I wouldn't care to talk poetry with any one of them.
Frank O'Hara is not objectively a better poet than, say, WCW or Frost, but the fact that I've read the works of all three artists quite extensively means that my preference for O'Hara is more informed, and based on not only my personal inclination, but a broader poetic foundation, a more complete system of value judgement. That's why /lit/ would say I have better "taste"

>>8726625
Mike "Feminine Dick? Electricity does the Trick" Pence

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>>8726625
or any one of these suggestions