How does one into poetry?

Read the best, figure out what makes them the best, emulate.

>>8984996
I actually meant to ask "where do you start reading?" Or is it reasonable to just pick and choose from the grab bag of the greats?

>>8985031
>I actually meant to ask "where do you start reading?"
Reading literature is for fags, so I can't help you there.

>>8985031
i think starting with the romantics is good

most people i know who like poetry got into it through poems like ozymandias, ode to melancholy, kubla khan, etc.

>>8985031
I read a few poems that I really love tht I read all the time
Kublai Khan -Samuel Taylor C
Ulysses - lord Tennyson
Horatius - i forgot
Elegy written at a county churchyard - I forgot
Annabel Lee- Poe

Those I think have pretty much universal appeal.

I also liked Paradise Lost

Just read my friend

>>8985046
the elegy is by thomas gray, most notorious one hit wonder in literary history. what a legend

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>>8985056
The time spent on it shows. The whole thing just feels like it was crafted over years and years, each stanza is nearly perfect. And the subject matter, considering how to best approach one's death is something that one considers over a lifetime.

>The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
>And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
>Awaits alike the inevitable hour.
>The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Unironically it is sublime.


Kublai Khan is the polar opposite, but still very successful. Very loose structuring, just writing as inspirations comes fast. Can't remember but I think it was written in one morning after he had an opium dream that he based it off of.

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Thank you for the suggestions niggers.