/lit/ - Literature

>Post-your-work thread.

Also, post your projects and work-ambitions, if you have any.

Criticism is highly valued, but try to make it constructive.

What's your favorite poem?

This one is my choice:

When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail
And Tom bears logs into the hall
And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl, . Tu-whit;
Tu-who, a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

When all aloud the wind doth blow
And coughing drowns the parson's saw
And birds sit brooding in the snow
And Marian's nose looks red and raw,
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl, . Tu-whit;
Tu-who, a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

What do you guys consider to be the best comedies of all time, and best comical characters?

Don’t restrict yourselves only to the theater and books, but give me also some great movies (movies with great comical screenplays, I mean).

I love A Midsummer Night Dream (probably the best comedy by Shakespeare), and like Twelfth Night quite a lot. The Falstaff scenes are also great comedy.

I like Volpone by Ben Jonson and The Misanthrope, by Moliere. But I was more interest right now in modern comedy, great screenplays in the movie business. One example would be The Great Hotel Budapest (the main character is a great character), and other examples (older) would be Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch movies.

What can you guys suggest?

>>6708684

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>>6708741

If your poetry depends more of sound, rhythm and rhyme then you are going to lose a lot in translation. If you poetry is superior in imagery (metaphor, similes) then the translation is not going to be totally devastating.
Shakespeare still keeps a lot of his vigor and beauty even in translation. Some other poets, like Pushkin, suffer hard blows when translated, because the sound and the rhyme and the nature of the original language is more important to it (his imagery and the substance of his verse is not that original and wild, and it fails to grab the reader’s attention when translated).

>>6708668

Both are the best at their fields. Tolstoy is the greatest novelist and probably the greatest short-story writer of all time. Anyone who has ever tried his hand at a realist novel or short-story knows how amazingly difficult it is to create so richly detailed and perceptive works as the ones he wrote. His life-experience was also extremely vast, something that many writers lack (and a thing that is especially valuable to realist writers).

Also: do you imply that he was descendent of the Russians affected by the Mongol raids? Where there significant number of rapes and mixed offspring? Not that this would be a bad thing: Mongols are basically Chinese, and these people have extremely high IQ’s.

>>4999851

Sempre um prazer ver um compatriota por aqui. E sim, ela era perfeita (a Clarice): lindo rosto e um baita corpão. Minha única paixão do passado que supera a que tenho por ela é a por Audrey Hepburn.

Are there good literary forums online? I was thinking in joining one of them, and maybe even making some friends online.

/lit/ is fun because of the anonymity, but I guess that being a member of a forum where your posts are saved permanently and you can know people better has its own advantages.

So, can you guys recommend some good literary forum?

Love this cover