/lit/ - Literature

Does anyone else think free verse and slam poetry feel really trite and dated these days? Every time I read it/listen to it it all feels the same. Same sort of feel, same sort of rhythms and patterns, same sort of themes. Especially the same sort of themes. It's all really boring. I think it's really ironic that free verse was originally started as some rebellion against regular meter and its sameness, but these days free verse poetry is very boring and it all feels the same from one poet to the next.

>fastest-moving thread on /lit/

You know, I'm not always so keen on women either, but this is kind of insane to me.

If you all dislike women so much, why do you seem to be so obsessed with them?

This book unironically taught me more about race relations than all my time in high school.

Even today I think Ellison has a point. Think about all the responses to signs of racism: taking down statues, burning buildings, changing voice actors for cartoons and mascots for products. But do actual black people really want any of that? If you actually talk to them, you find out that they'd just prefer not to be terrorized by the police, and also to have more economic opportunity. All this "woke" shit, all this stuff that Hollywood and corporations are doing, they either don't care about or actively dislike. Yet it's on their behalf, ostensibly, that all of it is done.

It's just like the narrator of Invisible Man says. Just like in the book, these days nobody actually "sees" black people. Black people just become this canvas that white people project this or that thing onto, and things are done on their behalf without actually asking them what THEY want.

Black girls keep matching with me on Bumble and Tinder. Like, this occurs to an overwhelming extent. Is it because I mention I'm a Christian in my profiles?

I kind of feel like I got filtered by Othello. I liked it well enough but I didn't find it to be the towering tale of a man being dismantled that it had been built up as. I found it inferior to the big dogs of Shakespeare's work (Hamlet/Lear) and I also did not think it was as impressive a tragedy as Coriolanus.

I suppose I'll need to read it again, it's been a few years since I read it and perhaps my opinion will change.

Anyone else confused? Like, *really* confused?

What are some books that are confusing? Confused-core I guess? Talk about them. or don't. idk