/lit/ - Literature

>>17976394
>The rationale of the poem, is a language game, and its purpose it simply to convey an EMOTION
So the words of the poem are merely incidental and secondary? Can you name the emotion? And why is the emotion valuable when myriad of ither things can produce emotions in you?
It seems very cocincidental to me that you used a poem, that on your own terms is only as valuable as its efficacy in elliciting emotions, to prove a rational point.
>Beauty is valuable in it of itself. I don't need some rationale to explain that fact to me.
I am not denying that, but completely ignoring the rational aspect of literature, then Shakespeare and a barcode and a McDonald's ad are EXACTLY THE SAME value as long as they ellicit an emotion in the reader/consumer (And who's to say that the feeling that an educated man gets when reading Hamlet is in any way inferior to the feeling an obese man gets when he craves a mcgriddle after seeing a McDonald's ad, or a shopping addict's dopamine rush when he browses through amazon?)
>You are like a dog, that when its master tries to direct it to something in the distance with his finger, you can't help but get caught up with staring at his finger in confusion. You are hung up with the tools used for direction rather than that which you are being directed towards.
That is only if you think that the ideas of a work is completely divorced from it's form, which is completely retarded. But it's not like you'd notice if you never go out of your way to find out why something is written that way, deeper than just "It sounds nice"
I am pretty sure this is bait but whatever[\spoiler]

>>17916733
Use an adverb when you need one and do not use it when you do not need it

>>17913476
>he got another of his tranny friends to support him
Of course.
Why not just stay at your little discord server and circlejerk each other instead?

>>17534868
Why bother talking about philosophy when you're retarded?