/lit/ - Literature

hey /lit/, why aren't you out sounding your barbaric YAWP like the patricians you are?

Where does the person who knows nothing about poetry start? Who should be read? My preference is likely 20th century works

hello /lit/
I'm supposed to write an essay on Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' - sections 1-8.
It's supposed to be analytic and argumentative, with secondary sources, MLA format - all that uni crap.
But the problem is, although I dig the poem, and it speaks to me, I have no clue how to do this - it seems irrelevant to me to write 'scientifically' about art.
Any of you anons got any ideas what should I write about? Themes, approach,viewpoints?
I will probably fail the semester if I don't manage to complete this assignment.

>>4159603
There are so many good ones of whitman

Tell me how to read Finnigan's Wake.

/cm/ is freakishly polite and nice... plus full of women. If you're into that.

I must make the time to listen to the poets
They speak to me in patience
In celebrations that do not
Wait but stand forever in
weathering stones.

The caffeine exultation would have me stand a night in clothes of poverty.
I know too much in these inspirations
and have not sat but to wax a string into candles
which I could then waste at midnight
sick with my waiting and my light.

Protip: Walt Whitman was gay.

I like how it's perfectly normal for teenaged boys and girls to have crushes on each other and "go out" and all that, but if a boy has a crush on another boy at that age (or if two boys are "going out") it's somehow viewed as some kind of proto-perversion.

I love how whenever a straight couple walks around holding hands, that's fine, but the second a gay couple walks around holding hands everyone starts acting self-righteous about how you just don't have to flaunt your sexuality all the time.

Hello, /lit/
I come to you with an urgent request.
I need Walt Whitman x Abe Lincoln fanfiction. It has to exist, somewhere in the deep hell-belly of the internet.

please help me.
many thanks,
intellectual inquirer

>>1369567
Asmiov over Kafka? Are you joking?

>>1305080

>anybody who has moral problems with the rich must be a child
>mfw you actually believe this

God, you're sheltered.

Just finished reading Whitman for the first time.

Wow.

Why didn't you guys tell me he was amazing?

A child said 'What is the grass?' fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

>>1271272

I think at this point I've put this dickwitch six feet under.

Is anyone else here in love with him?

>>999838

Fuck yes, Wilde.

Come drink elderberry wine with us!

http://t1nych4t.com/lit2

I am a sad and lonely person. Can we get this show on the road?

Hey /lit/ I have to do some summer reading so I was wondering if you could recommend me two good books that I could read. Any reading difficulty is fine, not absurdly long, any genre is fine besides sci-fi

Finish

COME my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Fuck all you guys, I'm LEAVEing

>>450075
tolstoy's was long but doesn't feel terribly *full*, it's sort of scraggly

dostoevsky's was good