/lit/ - Literature

What is your favourite poem, /lit/?

Mine is Ode to a Nightingale by Keats

Sometimes things are popular for a reason

Anons, are we using this platform in the most efficient way? This board could be so much more than just a place to spam threads about Guenon, Land, Whitehead, or whomever is the most fashionable writer this month. What if we organized Pen Pals to strengthen our writing skills?

>Keats died aged 25
>tfw you could live to 100 and never write anything as beautiful as Ode to a Nightingale

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

“No!”

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