/lit/ - Literature

>>16752780
As a matter of fact, I'm reading Keats's Endymion. You're welcome to sit with me and I will read it aloud to you

Prove that you can read a poem adequately.

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>>13084840
If I do, I've had them for so long that I can no longer tell what it might be like to not have them. I've never been very good at thinking or using words.

>>9878425
I think this line of thinking has more potential than people realize. The lived life as work of art is a fascinating concept.

It's actually fairly instructive in learning to appreciate a philosophers work by incorporating not just their teachings but their aesthetics into your life.

People will reply that the folk in this thread are quote "insufferable fags" but that's because they wear zip hoodies and study comp sci.

similar to >>9587854

>Keats was convinced that he had made no mark in his lifetime. Aware that he was dying, he wrote to Fanny Brawne in February 1820, "I have left no immortal work behind me – nothing to make my friends proud of my memory – but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd. "

When's the /lit/ top 100 being posted? Polguy where are you!?

I had to memorize like 15 of his poems in high school.
I only like Keats because I had to be hammered in to like him.

You have never seen more of a beta male than John Keats.

>>9111485
You're right about the Modernists, desu

>>9084109
cmon he does a bit

this pics better for seeing it

its the eyes and lower face structure

shy if you didn't know him, effeminate & an agreeable sense of humour

>You speak of Lord Byron and me – There is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees – I describe what I imagine – Mine is the hardest task.

>>8835090
Nah

This guy is amazing

>>8767749
Second best is first worst.

>>8703556
I've got this castle and forest near where I live and sometimes I walk around there if I'm in that kind of mood. Good shit mang; really helps. Would recommend, especially when its one of those wintry but bright days; everything seems so crisp.

Hey, /lit/. Who's your favourite poet?

What are your guys' fav poems? Given my obsession with the Romantic Era, I'd have to pick Ode to a Nightingale.

I want to dive into John Keats' poems. Some recommendations? Is there a good starting point for any collected works?

I found a 'Hyperion: a fragment' book but I don't know if that poem is incomplete (for the 'a fragment' subtitle).

How do I into contemporary poetry?

I love everything from Shakespeare up to Yeats, but once I get into the 20th century, things get iffy for me. Are there some critical works that explains the transition from traditional forms to the experimental, free verse, weirdness?

If anyone can explain the ethos of modern poetry, I'd be interested.

How to find it in myself to write something worth reading?

I usually end up discarding any writings or ideas I ever have, either because I don't know how to continue them, or they're just too poorly written that they're laughable.

Keats is the one I return to again and again. He has the pure intuition of the artist. Only Shakespeare can touch him in English.

>>8194123
You mustn't read much then

Who is your favourite author, /lit/?

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