Where would be a good place to start with poetry? I read a little

>>9269127
also interested - are there books about how to read poems? like bloom saying to memorize them and whatnot

maybe http://eclipsearchive.org/authors.html ?

Paradise Loss

>>9269127
>Yeats
>"alright"

LMAO

>>9269459
No, I liked it.

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>>9269127
Just pick up an anthology and read at random. What poems of Yeats did you like?

>>9269580
I read the first ones in the norton anthology of poetry. It's an older version of the anthology I got for like 4 dollars. I read the folly of being comforted, the magi, the lamentation of the old petitioner, and the lake isle of innisfree. I liked them, though I'm not sure what they mean.

>>9269604
Have a read of:
T.S. Eliot - The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock
John Keats - When I have fears that I may cease to be
William Blake - Auguries of Innocence
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ode to the West
Wind
Wilfred Owen - Dulce et Decorum Est

If you like them, see what else the author has in the anthology.

>I liked them, though I'm not sure what they mean.
I don't think it really matters what a poem means, so long as you enjoy it. What does a Bob Dylan song like Desolation Row mean? What does a Kafka story mean? Who cares. It's how you immediately respond to it.

Confucius to Cummings
- Ezra Pound

>>9269604
Not that anon (I'm this anon >>9269459), but if you want to understand The Magi, you need to read Yeats's "Two Songs and a Play" and "The Second Coming."

These three poems all deal with the same theme. That's all the hint I'll give you.I could just tell you their meanings, but why deprive you the joy of analysis?

As for "The Folly of Being Comforted," your clues are "Maud Gonne," this is an historical figure, not a poem, and "No Second Troy" - this is a poem.

The Lake Isle of Innisfree can be deciphered on its own. You clue is "pastoral."

This is the first time I've read "Lamentation of the Old Pensioner." It can stand alone, like Innisfree, but gives some psychological context to "The Magi" and the related poems as well.

As for where to start - imo you can start where ever you like in poetry, but there are poets, like Yeats, who reference the works of other poets, authors of the past, and mythology so I would recommend starting with the old and moving to the new.

>Homer
>Virgil
>Ovid
>Sappho
>Catullus
>Shakespeare
>Milton
>Alighieri
>Blake
>Keats
>Burns
>O' Shaughnessy
>Tennyson
>Percy Bysshe Shelley
>Dickenson
>Whitman
>Eliot
>Pound
>Cummings
>Heinrich Heine
>Basho
>Issa
>Kikaku
>Oshikochi no Mitsune
>I would recommend Hispanic poets as well, but I'm not familiar with them yet.


This would be a good start.

>>9270666
Sounds good anon. Thank you.

>>9269758
Thank you anon.

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>>9269132

Meter and Form are two of the most important aspects of poetry and it's a shame that people know so little about them. They are the building blocks of the art and learning about them will help you read poems better and be more responsive to them and therefore more appreciative of them. Pic related is a great accessible book on the subject.