/lit/ - Literature

>>10828342
Pale Fire by John Shade

>>10828342
>Nabs poem
>http://www.ee0r.com/lodolo.html
>random French verses appear
>of course.

>>10828528
There's a commentated version by some dude who talks shit about some shithole nordic country rather than the poem, WTF??

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44885/annabel-lee

>>10829050
wtf

>>10828342
Well, that poem sucks, and deliberately so, so some shitty poetry.

>>10829050 is a good recommendation if you want to read poetry which doesn't suck so much and clearly inspired Nabokov. Robert Frost is also kind of OK I guess and similar in respect to the somewhat colloquial and less consciously literary style with generally simpler syntax while still remaining in metered form.

>>10830544
Good Hours

I had for my winter evening walk—
No one at all with whom to talk,
But I had the cottages in a row
Up to their shining eyes in snow.

And I thought I had the folk within:
I had the sound of a violin;
I had a glimpse through curtain laces
Of youthful forms and youthful faces.

I had such company outward bound.
I went till there were no cottages found.
I turned and repented, but coming back
I saw no window but that was black.

Over the snow my creaking feet
Disturbed the slumbering village street
Like profanation, by your leave,
At ten o’clock of a winter eve.

>>10828342
You mean lunatic, shit poetry? Not really my specialty, OP

>>10828342
You should read Aleister Crowley's Leah Sublime:

https://hermetic.com/crowley/poetry/leah-sublime

tell me what you thought.

>>10829050
William Buroughs' reading of the poem makes it all the better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR4flwAC7gg