/lit/ - Literature

>>4671301
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>rambling about how "modern art" (i.e. everything written in the past 500 years) is degenerate shit for mongrels, while being deep-down a repressed homosexual; spit on shakespeare because "he's a hack and vulgar", and tell every one about your patrician tastes in latin classics.

i want those people to die.

>>4544107
>being this mediocre
>actually enjoying it
it must unbearable to live with such a tiny mind, how do you deal with that?

>>4212795
This is simply not true.
How can you miss the deeply poetic settings in the Waste Land? The first part opens up in a childhood garden, among mountains and patios, where the narrator speaks --though bitterly, of his lost childhood. The scene where the narrator, after mentioning Marie, receives the flowers and looks into "the heart of light / the silence" is truly moving.
Same thing for the dead city of London, where nothing grows and the narrator is forced into sterility. Haven't you noticed the running music -the beauty you spoke of- in the poem? In the Unreal city, the tone grows duller and duller, close to a short breath.

I could go on forever. Likewise, in the second section, the scene between the narrator and his wife is also troubling. The exchange between the unhappy couple shows how hollow mundane life is, pretty much doing what Beckett will do 30 years later.
The Waste Land is not just a posh collage of incoherent things, it actually makes sense, that's the utter beauty of The Waste Land.

>>4191495
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>>4191500
Here we go again. Let's not discuss about books and how it's a fucking pity to label authors, but rather get into another endless political argument

>>3930597
"clear and concise style"
fucking 21st century ill-bred middle class kid, mistaking poverty and lack of style for a virtue
fuck this gay earth

>>3791404
lol
pls go back to pol or kill yourself, either way is fine

>>3778777
>physical property of things
wow that's some shit kindergarden pre-kantien philosophy right there

>>3707673
Generalising to the extrem everything you say doesn't make you less ignorant, rather you will you sound like an uncultured idiot.
Céline & Musil both wrote world classics after 1930, for one.

>>3668782
fuck
i'm sorry man

>>3660132
how is it pretentious to point out that not liking one of the greatest english poet is a crime

>>3574316
are you seriously asking how is the question of the ego related to literature at all?
you must be very new to literature, or someone who only reads scifi

>>3555433
>thinks freud is unrelated to literature