>reading poetry

>watching youtube videos of a retarded monkey

>>9630782
>retarded monkeys
They have operated a spaceship into space and made it back home...

>>9630786
you must be a retarded human

>>9630786
RETARDED monkeys, or regular monkeys?

>>9630791
Well a monkey is a monkey, innit?

God, poetry is such an over rated art form. Anyone who writes poetry is stuck up their own ass in pretentiousness. They use words that have been outdated for over a century because they think it makes them sound smart. The unique rhyming shtick ended when lyrics in song became more common.

>>9630797
I'm the one asking the fucking questions here, you gibbering spastic.

>>9630786
i saw a news story the other day right of this monkey who broke into a man's house, stole his clothes, and forged his social security information and emptied the guy's bank account to buy bananas

or it might have been a chimp

>>9630804
Is that the plot of the sequel to Ishmael?

>>9630765
Yes, I do. I rarely read novels now because of that.
>>9630798
no u

>The Jellyfish by Karl Pilkington.

I don't like jellyfish, they’re not a fish, they're just a blob.
They don’t have eyes, fins or scales like a cod.
They float about blind, stinging people in the seas,
And no one eats jellyfish with chips and mushy peas.
Get rid of 'em!


Karl is objectively the greatest man on the planet.

>>9630814
>>>/reddit/

reading poetry is like reading a graphic novel. i spend the whole time trying to appreciate it instead of just appreciating it. with prose novels i can just sit back and absorb the thoughts. poetry is too stressful and pretentious.

>>9630819
>Karl is reddit
Kys cuck

>>9630825
He's sure as fuck not /lit/

>>9630819
>Karl "let the poor die I don't want a pay a tenner" Pilkington
>Reddit

Pick one.

>>9630834
There is a lot of middle ground between /lit/ and reddit, though, isn't there?

>>9630834
Karl writes a diary of his day to day activities
I'd take a bet and say that's more lit than you do on a day to day basis

>>9630848
There's nothing inherently literary about that.
>>9630863
Plenty of middle ground, and Karl stands firmly on the Reddit side.
This guy is famous from a fucking TV show, you're both fucking retarded.

>>9630863
Imagine the genius we'd stumble upon if he released his up to date diary. We'd have thousands of pages of his unadulterated banter.

>>9630868
>There's nothing inherently literary about that.
Are you retarded? The point is that there is absolutely nothing reddit about that.

>This guy is famous from a fucking TV show
And?

> and Karl stands firmly on the Reddit side.

Karl is a grown man who probably doesn't throw a bitchfit anything outside of 4chan enters his mind. Grow up, mate.

>>9630868
>huur he's famous so he's reddit
Go away

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>>9630814
Karl is the übermensch

>>9630875
Again, whether or not he's Reddit (he is) he's not fucking /lit/, and 'banter' is neither prose nor poetry. Shoot yourself in the face.

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>>9630877
He is objectively the funniest man alive.

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>>9630812
>Yes, I do. I rarely read novels now because of that.

>>9630907
Novels waste a lot of time giving useless info. Poetry doesn't (at least not good poetry)

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>>9630798

>God, poetry is such an over rated art form.

na ur just a shit reader

>>9630877
You never see a homeless Chinese

>>9630919
Looking for new poetry, any recommendations?

>>9630944

you never see an old man eating a twix

>>9630983

georg trakl

>>9630944
>>9630999

I unironically can't sleep without listening to the podcasts/XFM shows. Karly Pilkboys is GOAT youtuber.

>>9630819
desu most of reddit probably wouldnt be able to get their heads around his whole act

>>9630983
The best poetry can be found up inside your own ass.

one night wile fucking his wife Dr Zuck
in his ears got his wife’s nipples stuck
with his thumb up her bum
he could hear himself come
thus inventing the TELEPHONE FUCK

There was a young gaucho named Bruno
Who said Screwing is one thing I do know.
A woman is fine,
And a sheep is divine,
pero la iguana es Numero Uno!

/lit/'s aversion to poetry is appalling. Yet it's not surprising when you consider that most "poetry" written in the last hundred years or so is awful, and that is what most people associate with poetry.

If you are genuinely looking to start liking poetry, revered as the highest pinnacle of art by many for thousands of years (except Plato), then here's a good list of poets to start with just to spur some interest in poetry:

Horace (odes)
John Keats (odes and sonnets)
Wilfred Owen ("Dulce et Decorum est," "Anthem for Doomed Youth," and "The Parable of the Old man and the Young")
Andrew Marvell ("Cromwell Ode" and "The Garden")
A.E. Housman (A Shropshire Lad)
William Blake (Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience)

Most of these poems are rather short, perfect for your shot attention span. Don't bother with longer poems like the Aeneid, Paradise Lost, and the Faerie Queen, unless you can comfortably read hyperbaton, the biggest obstacle for most when it comes to reading poetry (just a brief aside: if you want to read an example of horrible, amusing hyperbaton, take a look at the Bay Psalm Book's translation of Psalm 23).

Good luck.

>>9630798
Jesus. Why are you even on this board?

eugene onegin

Poetry is the endgame of literature.

>>9630814
wtf is this shit

>>9631022
act?

is it spiteful
to put a jellyfish in trifle?

This board truly is terrible.

>>9631095
Only good post in this thread

>>9630798
actually triggered me

>>9631095
>hyperbaton
not even that hard to get around, just read for 10 minutes and you'll pick up on it

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>>9630765
>>9630814
The reason why
The reason why
The reason why I had to die
Did I bleed
The blood of greed?
What was my destiny...

>>9631288
you think hes actually that stupid?

>>9631095
Shut the fuck up, fag

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>>9630999
>georg trakl
>new

na ur just an awesome reader

>>9631095
>except Plato
>except

Well seems like someone didn't read shit.

>>9631489
genius*