/lit/ - Literature

Advanced intelligent beings would see us as nothing more than irrational animals.

If they made it to Earth, that only means that they will never explore its natural resources. Because, why would they? Earth's only treasure is its life. They would attempt to preserve it the same way we do with Pandas.

>>13935370
Omer, Virgil , Camões etc...

Name one Epic poet that wrote rhyming epic poetry in English, name one.

Why is the Malazan Series so rarely discussed here?

It's not as bad as I thought it would be.

>>13036840
Should I just give in and Start reading the malazhan series?

I'm halfway through the 1st book and I'm actually enjoying it.

I'm just afraid it will be like the Wheel of Time

>>13027880
Mistborn should have ended with the 1st book.

Hey /lit/. I'm majoring in English literature (yeah I know) and tomorrow I am turning in a 30 page essay on love in Ovid's Metamorphoses. I feel like I'm in High School, but that is okay because it's easy. Anyway, what is your opinion on love and transformation in the Metamorphoses? I'm giving plenty of examples, for example how Daphne turned into a laurel tree after being chased by Apollo, and how Arachnes love of weaving corrupted her personality and changed her into a spider after boasting to the goddess Athena. Does anyone remember what the characters names in that one story involving cannibalism was called? At the ends they turn into birds if I remember correctly.