/lit/ - Literature

How do you begin to appreciate poetry?
Does /lit/ read poetry, if so, how did you begin to really enjoy it and got yourself to read often?
I've tried to read Baudelaire and Mallarmé (french lit) but I must be missing the point probably.
I've seen often to try reading confessional or Haiku to start, is that any accurate?

/ourgirl/ Emily
Sylvia Plath and Anne Frank are cute too

We post and discuss Emily Dickinson poetry:
I died for Beauty – but was scarce

Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth was lain
In an adjoining Room –
He questioned softly ‘Why I failed’?
‘For Beauty’, I replied –
‘And I – for Truth – Themself are one –
We Brethren are’, He said –

And so, as Kinsmen, met a Night –
We talked between the Rooms –
Until the Moss had reached our lips –
And covered up – our names –

Emily Dickinson is one of the most famous and widely studied American poets of the 19th century. Known for her wit and preference for seclusion from the outside world, Dickinson rarely left her home in Amherst, Mass., preferring instead to write quietly from the confines of her bedroom.
Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Dickinson began life as an energetic, outgoing young woman who excelled as a student. However, in her mid-twenties she began to grow reclusive, and eventually she rarely descended from her room in her father’s house. She spent most of her time working on her poetry, largely without encouragement or real interest from her family and peers, and died at age fifty-five. Only a handful of her 1,775 poems had been published during her lifetime. When her poems finally appeared after her death, readers immediately recognized an artist whose immense depth and stylistic complexities would one day make her the most widely recognized female poet to write in the English language. Dickinson’s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul.

Love her

>>14451662
We need to bring her back

How do I start with her work?

>>14447341
There's no hope

>>14446532
Emily

>>14446123
Of course I do

You can't ruin her

>virgin
>pure
>/lit/
>talented
>NEET
>knew ancient greek and latin
>shy
>cute
How could you not love her?

My pure, virginal and lovely Emily