/lit/ - Literature

>>10430090
I was only projecting

Looking back, I realize that despite the benefits of having more grit in my oyster so to speak, and being able to handle and cope a lot more than my peers because of my past, I still would trade it to have had a loving family in my formulative years as a kid

I remember when I was 16 I had a short relationship with a girl I really enjoyed. She was smart, attractive, charismatic. She came from a wealthy background and was very privileged. She could go home to her cool lawyer dad who played the electric guitar and her mom who taught English at the local community college. I had nothing. She would often joke about me being homeless with no family and because of how stoic I was I pretended that it didn’t hurt me. She was my window into a normal life. When she broke things off and fucked some random dude I wasn’t upset because it ended with her. I was upset that the window into that stable existence closed, and, drugged out of my mind laying in a friends bathtub, I realized that she would never understand the pain I felt. Not because she was a bad person or anything, but because all experience is an arch wherethro gleams the untraveled world.

>>10340902
>weird

Just say trash f am, because it’s just that. Not much worth reading after Shakespeare. Whitman maybe. I like some Ezra and Eliot but if you read their essays on literature you’d find they were steps behind mainland European literature. Eliot’s “objective correlative” is circlejerked over, never mind that pretty much all literature before and after him employed it. Ezra’s imagism was nothing new either, and he had to know as someone who lived in Paris and was as well-read as him. Also:
>writes book on poetry
>full of good ideas, cites the best of lit
>proceeds to do the opposite

Robert Frost is meh but at least I can recognize poetic tradition in his works. It’s sad when that only puts you above most other poets of your language.

It’s a straight path to Rupi Kaur level shit. If not her, then another “poet” would’ve wrote the same with for the same success, and it might have been a straight white man.

>be Hungarian
>buy book from contemporary poet
>he’s a college student, nowhere near a pro
>what the fuck is this
>reads like artsy tumblr posts and/or English poetry
>check reviews
>author says he wouldn’t call it poetry, just quick notes that sounded vaguely poetic
>tfw a college student shits out pieces English academia has been raving about for decades

>>10333774
Worst part I’m not a normie but she is

She could of been my gateway to freedom but she dumped me

I know spend my time wandering town smoking cigarettes in my Olympic knockoff tracksuit