/lit/ - Literature

Did a bunch of cocaine tonight, still up, and just seeing what you anons are up to:

>Age
33
>Top five favourite books
1) Ulysses by James Joyce
2) Possession: A Romance by A.S Byatt
3) Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
4) Crow by Ted Hughes
5) The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
>What are you drinking?
Vodka Diet Pepsi

>How's your life going?
Going alright. About to go into an education program to teach high school and then get my Masters part-time to get that pay increase. Been indulging in too much hedonism though.

>>20285595
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Good evening, /lit/. Fiance is gone for the weekend for a girls weekend so I am drunk right now. Make requests for vocoro for me to recite poetry or excerpts. If it's not English, be prepared for translations, and if the poem or excerpt is longer than five minutes I might skip it!

Do you have to be Irish to "get" Yeats?

I usually don't have much trouble understanding (pre-modernist) poetry, but Yeats makes no sense to me and I have no clue what he is trying to say with his poems.
Are there any good external books or sources to help understand all of the obscure Irish mythology and mysticism he is referencing?

>>17815164
Such an obvious choice. Continued the experimentation of the other Modernists, but kept the Victorian and Romantic structures.

>>17789514
>>17789527
Chaucer is definitely my favourite pre-Romantic English poet. Probably tied with John Donne. Though I wouldn't call him "the greatest poet of all time," but W.B Yeats is definitely my favourite, and I'd argue the best, post-Romantic poet in English.

Your top five favorite poets and your favorite poem they wrote.

>>17454696
Get filtered.

>>16925801
But Yeats only really looks 'beautiful' in this particular photograph or at this time of his life. Most of the time he's slightly strange looking. Not ugly, just quite a thin, protracted nose.

>>16825401
no he's a degeneration of that "endgame of philosophy". The Renaissance Hermeticists, Rene Guenon, and others explained it better. Evola just projected a lot of his little incel thoughts and shoehorned it

I absolutely love him but it's a bit annoying that he isn't even Irish. He's very much of the English race. At the very least the Anglo-Prods. I'd prefer Padraig Pearse but alas picrel is the greatest poet who ever lived. Easter 1916 is beautiful

where do i start?

We have all that's needed.
https://youtu.be/WVl8AYX45gM
https://youtu.be/Ex7xVG-EpUs
https://youtu.be/Owhqea_Dhpo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTPGwE5jvcY

KEK Crowley gets YEATED HARD down the STAIRCASE

What's good poetry for people that hate both Whitman style self-aggrandizement and romantic allusive pretentiousness? What's left? I'm looking for poetry that's subtle, restrained, and intellectual. It can cover any topic, though love poetry would be preferred. Does any poetry like this even exist?
Pic very unrelated, his early stuff at least is all "And then Love let slip her tempestuous arrow" noncery

>The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

>>14113535

No Second Troy
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS


Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,
Or hurled the little streets upon the great,
Had they but courage equal to desire?
What could have made her peaceful with a mind
That nobleness made simple as a fire,
With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind
That is not natural in an age like this,
Being high and solitary and most stern?
Why, what could she have done, being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?

Is it possible to a heterosexual, masculine man, and to enjoy reading poetry? This is a serious question.

Let's get an OC thread going. Post your poems, short stories, WIPs, etc. Last one went really well.

Do us all a favor: if you post something, critique at least one other thing.

How did he do it, /lit/?

ITT: post poets who knew how bad things really are

Was he a hack?

His poetry is ridiculously overrated and navel-gazing. He's like a male Sylvia Plath.

Why the hell do people like him?

was he a hack?