C.P Cavafy

looks kind of like the feels guy

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>>9209666
it was a doodle by hockney.

He had a big nose tho.

also check'd

gay.

>>9209686
i don't really care. I was just saying the picture looked kind of like the feels guy.

>>9209690
there's some resemblance i grant you.

>>9209686
Oh, I don't really want to read anything something Hockney likes :/

>>9209716
im not sure if hockney read his poetry, let alone liked it. I am sure that it was a luxury exclusive edition book that he got paid hella to draw for.

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>>9209663
Cheeky bantz about Hellenistic/Byzantine history = BASED
Hunky sailors = not so much.

>>9209757
yeah. Though, to his credit, he isn't the most in your face with the homoeroticism

>>9209716
didn't hockney illustrate fairy tales?
>>9209687
>>9209757
i like the sailors and young boy memories :3

the barbarians are coming is hilarious fun.

>>9209868
yeah it really is. Tbac is one of my favourites. I also like ithaka because im a mainstream fag

>>9209889
>ithaka
ha, i love The City, which is something of a counterpoint

>>9210006
i love the fact that cavafy just trots out such a dichotomy in so many of his poems. He has a unity throughout his poems, in tone etc, but very few poems are obviously directly related chronolically or thematically

>>9210130
he makes me want to write poetry. i can see why the modernists liked him so much because his poems are like little snapshots. he can shift perspective entirely and it's still a whole image, and just as sentimental. he has one where he talks about writing a poem of "alexandrian greek" to make people proud of that greek, and i think that comes across most in his poetry because they do all feel like he could be working for a tourism board. there's a sense of easiness of lifestyle, even in sorrow, stemming from language and history that seems to seep through his works, like an implication a bottle of wine on the greek coast (and the odd sailor boy) writing a poem is all you need. making language seem effortless like that is probably more difficult than he makes it seem, but i think there's a pride in lifestyle and language driving it. people like wilde and gide travelled to see what he saw by accident of birth.

>>9210187
The easiness of language i feel must stem from the Greek. I study classics and ancient Greek does have an amazing amount of rhyme, assonance, and synonyms that can, and are, used; I feel the same is probably true of modern Greek.

It also always amazes me how Cavafy can turn the smallest Hellenistic story/person/event into such wonderful poetry (such as Kaisarion)

>>9209841
>he isn't the most in your face with the homoeroticism

I don't believe you. Every gay author I've ever read has felt the need to allude to their gayness in every other line.