/lit/ - Literature

>>9735266
>unironically advocating for a planned economy in 2017

Have fun with your planned chaos.

>>9376975
>harold bloom smiling

what sorcery is this?

Why is he so fucking sad, /lit/?

>>9076536

>Jonson
>footnote
bloomface.jpg, but let's keep reading...
>Spenser
>Dryden
>FOOTNOTE
See pic.

>>8969024

(cont)
And besides, your poem almost is one already. What might interest you are Gerard de Nerval's poem Le Point noir and Yeats' A Vision, where the strange artifacts our eyes create take a strangely prominent place in his occult system.

>>8968169

O, how banal! A poet should only consult a therapist if he intends to argue with them and prove them wrong, for psychoanalysis is a poetic system just like any other. And actually it's the ideas in the poem, not the rhythm, that are somewhat compelling. The rhythm's downright ugly.

>>8968406

Wow! A poem that I actually like (though, as always, I feel it would benefit from capitalized lineheads)! I am somewhat skeptical, however, of some parts of the opening: I am not sure if I like "Come" set out at the beginning, as I feel that's quite cliched, though I can't at the
moment think of a poem that does exactly that off the top of my head. Also, I am not sure what "crook of hand" means--are you referring to the space between the thumb and index finger? If so, the image remains incoherent. And it was so close to a really grabbing line too: if you had said "crooked hand" or "claw-like hand" or even just "clawed hand," I would have understood, and there would still have been some good ambiguity, as we would not though whose hand is crooked our clawed. That's my solution, but perhaps you can come up with a better one: it must be fixed, in any case.

I see the mention of step falling in line wholly unnecessary, so try and come up with a better rhyme. The "borders of adulthood" thing also falls rather flat: you're not Humbert Humbert, are you? And even if so, there are more colorful ways of expressing that, and this is a colorful poem. Where the poem gets good is at line 8, and the metaphors, coming in rapid succession, are really quite creative. You have even done me the service of teaching me a new word: dormer.

A minor thing: "of air of new nativity" is clumsy, though I like the idea. Try to avoid the repitition of prepositions: that is ugly in English. I'm also skeptical of the line break between "rend" and "the span of time"--rend doesn't even rhyme with anything, so why not put the two lines together? The last line is a virtuoso finish, however.

Was this poem about someone in particular, or an imagined individual? Either way, I like it very much.

>>8968705

I'm afraid there are too many memes here for me.

Here are some Blooms to keep you all terrified and motivated.

>>8776856
>tu
>est
>without -ne

>tfw not living the literary lifestyle

> Melville and Joyce respectively one and two
> The sudden surge of IJ posters might destroy the dream

>>8546249
>to be remembered for speaking out against Harry Potter and Stephan King

>anything other than King Lear

Alright, enough with this meme drivel, you fucks. I would like someone to read my poetry over (not that you people are really qualified to do so), but it is so very bad that I would be too embarrassed to share it with anyone who is not behind a veil of anonymity. This thread is for those in a similar predicament, as I am sure there are many very bad poets around here. Prose is also welcome, so long as you believe your prose to have the same ends as poetry, and to be written in a poetic manner.

I will begin with two sonnets I've written. The second was at the behest of a professor of mine, which is why I subtitle it "A Schoolboy's Exercise," with the absurd hope that it may stand as an early work along with the likes of Milton's Prolusions, which generally are not terribly insightful in themselves, but which are illuminated by Milton's later grandeur. Of course, my education is not nearly so good as I would like and deserve, and so my writing suffers.

Sonnet: An Evening Online

If to the monocle-acquainted eye
The aeroplane and piston seemed profane,
It’d flood the ages’ gloaming with its cry
To suffer this too-enchanting window-pane.—
And yet to call it windowpane were wode:
The analogy would fail this ópaque lake
Aboding vermin and the verminous ode,
The wording destitute, the feeling fake.
‘Turning blankly toward the blank page, churning
‘With desire, stranded in a house on fire,’
Runs the ode, ‘I abandoned fecund learning
‘For mere abstraction; a sterile, lustful mire.’
Nor can be saved the drifting hedonist
By monkish virtues: only amethyst
In verbal landscapes questioningly laid
Can make the Angel able to be kisst.

Contradictory Sonnet (A Schoolboy’s Exercise)

When I do count the clock that tells the time,
I still may call that hue unto my sight
As shows in Earth in spite of burning lime,
Outpacing music’s evanescent light.
Think how the amberlaid soprano cleaves
Unto the accompaniment, yet still is heard
Above that mumming beat commanding leaves
To hang and fall in sepiatone, and bird
To sing piano. Therefore, two lives we make.
For that we ne’er will live so long, nor so
Inter eternal visions, we must forsake
That one which perjures or true fire or snow—
But, that life which shines the dark on blazoned Sense
Shall mire me, but send you baptized hence!

Bloom is officiating as a reminder of your inevitable physical and literary mortality. Of course, the job of poetry is ideally to defy the inevitable.

This sexy beast of course.

>being a School of Resentment pleb

>>8418621
>check out one of his reviews
>25 min video
>at least 10 minutes is just reading quotes and passages from the book
>"...wow" *stares into distance*
>suddenly starts reviewing different kinds of whisky for 10 minutes what the hell
>goes on a personal unrelated anecdote about himself for the duration of the video

What a pretentious faggot, truly the king of /lit/.

>>8204982
Trotsky popularized its use, as did Mao, for political purposes. It was one of Mao's magic words to shut down debate. You're "racist", "capitalist", "counter-revolutionary", etc.

>he used to be a pretty intelligent
but
>Now he's against immigration, abortion

Only intelligent people support abortion and mass immigration/ demographic replacement? I'm sorry to say this, lad, but you seem to live up your own arse. These are personal beliefs and there is no use trying to treat them as a question of education. Abortion is not a truth or good that has been revealed by scientific investigation, your idea of "educated beliefs" are simply the beliefs that you have been indoctrinated into yourself, probably in higher education. These ideas specifically are a materialistic leftism and scientism.

You may believe that there is nothing wrong a ~10% indigenous population in some parts of London. You may not care if babies are aborted, you may hate and despise your own country -- you might even be ashamed of your country. 'National pride, religion, and conservatism is for morons. Lets tear down everything around us because we are "enlightened"'. Do you really think you're new in thinking this?

You have to realise that your beliefs have consequences. Your friend is trying to find his place in the world. If you're anything like the other vapid undergraduates here, you're probably some edgy leftist nihilist.

Edgy progressives have destroyed the traditions and customs of Western Europe without even asking the people affected. Decent, ordinary people have had their whole communities destroyed, when they complain you call them "racist", "bigoted", "stupid" etc. You just don't get that society *needs* myth and tradition in order to survive.

You are just another fucking pseud with your phony outrage, shallow emotions, and stolen platitudes. The words "chill guy" really just show your facetiousness. If being "chill" is acting like a little nihilistic poser then // F U C K // Y O U //

Yes I'm triggered. I'm sick of all these fucking teenage pseuds and Reddit/Tumblr tier posts over the past few years. This is IT now. /lit/ has totally gone to shit. Fuck off back to your safe space, kiddo.

>>8167126
>I didn't read the classics

>>8114569
>mfw

>>8093229
>Having sex

>>7944476
>mfw you're right
>mfw we're doomed

>>7937103
He is a shell of his former self.

I don't really understand poetic meter /lit/. What are some books that can set me straight. pic only tangentially related

>>7897335

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG1t5cI6U2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6CCePrJlaU

This fucking hack.. Do you think she'll die not knowing she's a hack? Stay inquisitive! Booktubers are walking holes that want to tell everyone how how they are one of the elite literiariatie! "I AM A STRONG WOMYN" But my dear your eyes **would** look lovely looking up at me while you suck on the old volcano shaft!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEl1EM_fbfg

OH the girl fulfilled her childhood dream of writing a booke! (self published) HAHAHAHAH (selling it to herself) HOHOHOHOHOHO

You see my dear friends, booktubers are shallow narcissists. The great writers were all insane to some degree. Do you think a Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunnt-rovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk would be conceived by a booktuber?

Not a good writer?
NOt agood critic?
Notagood philosopher?
notagoodatanything?

BECOME A BOOKTUBER!!

Mediocrities of the world unite!

>Paulo Coelho

Kek, an author whose books are forever piling up in bargain bins and yard sales and who everyone will forget about as soon as he's dead. Nothing to see here people, move along.

I used to pronounce /lit/ as "lit" and used as "you-st"