How to into poetry

>>9932008
T.S. Eliot, (more) Byron, Whitman, Yeats, Dante and Milton, Shakespeare, (Me), Dickenson, Keats, Donne, Emerson, ...

>>9932035
>Reading la Divina Commedia in translation
no

>>9932008
>reads Pale Fire
>likes poetry now
The poem in Pale Fire is (deliberately) not that great, what about it impressed you so much?

>>9932104
I'm a poetry noob m8 for all I know it could be the vonnegut of poetry

>>9932124
In my opinion part of the joke is that Kinbote is obsessed with a literally who poet whom he constantly hypes up as being the greatest living poet. There are definitely some good parts of the poem (the opening is quite strong, for example) but there's also lines like
>I was an infant when my parents died./They were both ornithologists
Anyway, if you want to get into poetry, I'd start with someone accessible like Frost or Shelley, the kind of poetry that's often taught in high school English classes.

>>9932063
Yes.

It's infinitely better than not reading it at all. Enough of your memes.

>>9932008
What's happening in this picture? Is she sitting on the lap of a guy who is sniffing her butt, while she reads his poetry?

>>9933509
>sitting on his lap
>while he's giving her bum the old dirty mole
Not likely

>>9932008
Get Blooms "greatest poems in The english language" for sure

>>9932008
learn french