/lit/ - Literature

>>12996936
He's mediocre, and tweets aren't literary criticism.

>>12951290
I've read it three times, using three different translations. It's not that difficult, especially if you read a contemporary translator like Grossman. It's also the greatest novel ever written.

>>12580929
the cannon
the whole cannon
and nothing but the canon

"ancestors" are a meme which narrow the scope of your reading

>>11810565
>t. pleb who can't into Whitman
you should be ashamed, anon

>>11571734
Nothing of literary merit.

>>11400034
So you concede that Tarantino (or some other director; pick your favorite) is also literature? Or are operas different from film in some relevant way?

>>11370813
Show, don't tell. Also, easy on the edge.

>>11370818
Pynch?

>>11370852
Too vague, language is trying too hard to be poetic.

>>11370853
Need to know more about the narrator, but I'd probably rephrase "that stupid look on his face people get when they’re dead."

>>11370894
Meme/10.

>>11370904
Poor grammar/10.

>>11370930
It knows what it is. Keep going.

>>11370942
Stop trying so hard to be edgy.

>>11370954
See above.

>>11370972
See above.

>>11371033
Allusion is too in-your-face.

>>11300017
>Not recognizing the genius of this poem

This is obviously a comment on meter —the author takes a single line of iambic diameter (unstressed "it's", stressed "time", unstressed "to", stressed "go") and breaks it into four lines, turning it into its own poetic form (a stanza of four one-syllable lines, alternating between unstressed and stressed). Consider also that the first three lines incorporate a repeated "t" sound, and the last two lines are a slant-rhyme (a la Dickinson), which again point to deliberate composition.

The vertical lines which surround the stanza clue us in that we can read it either as a stanza or as a single line, and both readings will net us different interpretations — if it's a single line, it has lots of consonance and an internal rhyme, which makes everything cohere; if it's a stanza, it establishes a "t" pattern which is broken by the final line, suggesting release and change. The single-line reading suggests a "time to go" that has arrived, but hasn't been acted upon; the stanza-reading suggests a "time to go" in the past which has already been acted upon.

This duality between the time that is and the time that was invites the reader to examine his own present and past, both to act and to be thankful for those times when one has acted. It's a timeless grain of wisdom hidden in common language.

>>11301969
>Music is not literature.

Rudyard Kiplings greatest poems are ballads — one of the all-time great English poets made his name writing songs.

Y'all are plebs.

How do I achieve this aesthetic?