INTRO TO POETRY

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INTRO TO POETRY 2017-01-02 07:40:46 Post No. 8915555
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INTRO TO POETRY Anonymous 2017-01-02 07:40:46 Post No. 8915555 [Report]

Seeing that one of the most popular threads in this board is about Rupi-Fucking-Kaur, let's discuss some actually decent poetry. I have been wating to get into it for a while now. Could you recomend some good entry points? I was thinking T.S Eliot's "The Waste Land and Other Poems". Also any good short books on poetry, in order to better appreciate it?

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>>8915555
>entry point
>the waste land

Anonymous 2017-01-02 07:41:55 Post No.8915559
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Anonymous 2017-01-02 07:41:55 Post No.8915559 [Report]

I'm taking an intro to poetry course starting this Wednesday! Excited. I read The Odyssey translated by Fitzgerald over break for fun.

Anonymous 2017-01-02 07:46:55 Post No.8915571
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>>8915558
Well I got it for Christmas, so that's why I was planning on starting there. What would you recommend instead?

Anonymous 2017-01-02 08:01:37 Post No.8915609
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>>8915559
ok

Anonymous 2017-01-02 08:05:24 Post No.8915615
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>>8915571
The Waste Land is a great poem but it's incredibly dense, esoteric, and referential. It's a difficult place to start with T.S. Eliot alone, much less poetry in general.

As obvious as it may sound, Shakespeare's sonnets are probably the best entry point into English poetry.

Anonymous 2017-01-02 08:15:50 Post No.8915635
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>>8915615
Thanks. What about something to understand poetry better (rythm, pacing and such)?

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Do you know any website or service that sends you a daily poem? All I've found give shitty poems. Google Allo gives good poems, but I uninstalled it because of paranoia.

Anonymous 2017-01-02 05:03:13 Post No.8916937
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Anonymous 2017-01-02 05:03:13 Post No.8916937 [Report]

How to get into poetry (for English)

Read:

The Oad Less Travelled - Fry
The Best Poems of the English Language - Bloom

Anonymous 2017-01-02 05:07:56 Post No.8916961
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Anonymous 2017-01-02 05:41:05 Post No.8917070
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>>8916961
Complete nonsense.
>>8916937
This is good advice.

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