/lit/ - Literature

Imagine being so insecure you are jealous of the wind.

yet to be impressed by Thomas, unless he wrote that one about the grass? I liked that
this sucks however

>>16146694
Are you thinking of Fern Hill?
https://poets.org/poem/fern-hill

>>16146739
yeah, I liked that one

>>16146739
zhave you read Eliot or She Walks in Beauty by Byron? I think you might like Ash Wednesday, though it's not Eliot's best necessarily.
I haven't read a ton of Thomas, but his most famous stuff I have been turned off by

>>16146596
windcucks btfo

>>16147179
Yes, I remember She Walks in Beauty from High School, though I definitely need to read/get more Byron in my collection. I have a copy of The Waste Land that I've been saving for a while now, I hope to crack it open soon.
I can understand not liking Thomas, he seems to be a pretty equally beloved and meh'd guy.

>>16147249
I actually went to school with a guy who was named after him.

>>16147575
don't be afraid to pick up a dover thrift edition best of for any classic poet/public domain poet.
the Yale online course for modern poetry is the best way to get into modernist poetry that I'm aware of, has extensive readings listed and a lot of them I think are available through their site as PDF.
hope to see you posting here soon about Wallace Stevens or Marianne Moore, who are probably my favorite modernists. I'm doing a study of the romantics right now myself, that's why I recomennded byron (and she walks in beauty also has raven hair in it)

>>16146588
Bump

>>16147575
'Wasteland' is kino, probably the first work I read that really moved me. American renaissance, and earlier euro romantic works have no effect on my emotional state.

Gonna be honest I cant understand poetry because I either cant be assed to discern it or it really just goes over my head

Who includes diversity and is Nature,
Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth and the equilibrium also,
Who has not look’d forth from the windows the eyes for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing,
Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most majestic lover,
Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic or intellectual,
Who having consider’d the body finds all its organs and parts good,
Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of these States;
Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in other globes with their suns and moons,
Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together.

>>16146588
holy fuck, what a cringe poem

>>16146588
why do you like stupid pederasts?

>>16146588
he's equating the feminine animus to be under the masculine forces of nature while still remaining to preserve her beauty.

>that guy looks like King Krule

>>16146588
I have absolutely no understanding of poetry where is a good place for me to start? I am fairly well read with classic lit but never branched into poetry.

>>16148476
I'll take that suggestion, thank you. Modernist poetry is probably my favorite. e e cummings being my absolute idol.
>>16148898
I hope it will move me as much as you
>>16149632
Is there evidence for Dylan Thomas being a pederast?
>>16149975
>that guy looks like King Krule
I can kinda see that now

>>16151364
I got my start when my grandparents would read Shel Silverstein to me before bed, which is where I got my first interest in poetry.
Clearly you're no longer a child and the most obvious place to start is with Shakespeare.
However, if Shakespeare isn't really your thing, or you're looking for something a bit more modern, I'd suggest checking out Robert Frost and Walt Whitman. They're great poets and nearly universally beloved.
The Beat poets are an attractive bunch to newcomers to poetry as well, but I'd tell you to keep off Ginsberg and check out Amiri Baraka instead. Ginsberg is worth reading, but definitely a more acquired taste.
However, if you're more interested in a smooth transition from Classic Lit to Poetry, you can't go wrong with Paradise Lost.

>>16146588
Dylan Thomas writes like he has daddy issues

>>16146588
>The air you breathe encroaches

stopped reading at this first gay line

>>16148931
>Who includes diversity and is Nature,
sorry, what?

>>16151567
Many thanks

>>16151724
No problem.
Also I almost forgot, if you're interested in any sort of low-down, filthy, depraved poetry, Bukowski is worth checking out.