/lit/ - Literature

an American legend ;_;

Could you guys rate this poem I wrote?
Thanks and feel free to share your own work.

Are you not weary of ardent ways,
Lure of the fallen seraphim?
Tell no more of enchanted days.
Your eyes have set man's heart ablaze
And you have had your will of him.
Are you not weary of ardent ways?

Above the flame the smoke of praise
Goes up from ocean rim to rim.
Tell no more of enchanted days.

Our broken cries and mournful lays
Rise in one eucharistic hymn.
Are you not weary of ardent ways?

While sacrificing hands upraise
The chalice flowing to the brim,
Tell no more of enchanted days.

And still you hold our longing gaze
With languorous look and lavish limb!
Are you not weary of ardent ways?
Tell no more of enchanted days.

Hey /lit/, could you rate my poem for me? I haven't been writing for long but criticism is welcome.

Color floods to the spot, dull purple.
The rest of the body is all washed-out,
The color of pearl.

In a pit of a rock
The sea sucks obsessively,
One hollow thw whole sea's pivot.

The size of a fly,
The doom mark
Crawls down the wall.

The heart shuts,
The sea slides back,
The mirrors are sheeted.

"All thinking men are theists." -- Ernest Hemingway

hemingway general

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>For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.

I don't get it. Why is this supposed to be sad again?

What's the cheapest online bookstore that gives you good QUALITY editions of the books?
Not because I'm poor either it's just I got this 25 dollar gift American Express gift card and I wanna make the most out of it

Good thing about Hemingway: good stories
bad thing about Hemingway: he can't write for sheeeyut

You must post ITT if you agree that Hemingway's prose isn't stylistic, it's just boring garbage.

Hemingway was a masculine writer. His stories often depict men handling pressure with grace. Fishing, hunting, war, and the like. His prose is terse and serves as an example of how to convey more using less.

make it a heavyweight fight


make it the bull when he first charges in


and remember the old dogs

who fought so well:
Hemingway, Celine, Dostoevsky, Hamsun.

-Bukowski

The best stories are written as a result of heartbreak.

Discuss.

Thoughts?

His work. Is a pain. To slog through. But I do it anyway. For he is considered to be proper American literature.