/lit/ - Literature

>>17352932
Ovid

>>17352932
Tell me what sort of prose interests you the most and then I can point you to the best poetry to start with.

>>17352971
this
also what languages do you speak?

>>17352978
>>17352971
English. Faulkner's my favorite Author, but I'll read pretty much anything

>>17353000
well I'm no anglo so I probably won't have the best advices but I'm a big fan of Yeats, I think that even though his poetry is very deep he is also enjoyable at the surface level
when I first began reading poetry in English I also liked EE Cummings. You could also get an anthology of English poetry, this will help you understand the different movements and you will probably find authors that you like. It's up to you to extend your reading of them afterwards. Emily Dickinson is also kino (currently reading her) but I'm not sure I would have liked her as an introduction to poetry. You could also check out Rilke's letters to a young poet for some introduction to the question of what is poetry.
Finally, read slowly, aloud is good too and enjoy. Poetry is awesome.

>>17353000
The metaphysical poets
Look up anthologies

>>17352932
This is excellent for a beginner.

>>17352932
SHAKESPEARE

Read this and tell me what you think, OP.

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death

>>17353202
I like it. The rhymes are very nice

>>17353268
Read more Keats then. His body of work isn't too big since he died when he was only 24.

>>17353000
If you're a fan of Faulkner I would recommend checking out some his own poetry. Faulkner took a lot of influence from Romantic poets in his novels, so I would point you towards Wordsworth. If you enjoy Wordsworth, then be sure to take a look at Keats and Tennyson, and then just go from there fren. :)

>>17352932
the romantics. or homer

OP wanted to read poetry
I said: "why don't you do pottery
Instead? we know you're a fag
On every dick you gag."
But OP wanted to read
Things he thought were yet unsaid
To his poor dry little soul.
He wanted to read them whole!
Well, good OP
Read what you see:
ω======D ~ ~ 0
True poetry
You see
it is
my thick
hard dick
and my jizz.

rupi kaur
don lemon and the other beatles
Mel gibson
J alfred tennyson
Don knots

>>17353375
>Don Knotts
top kek

>>17352932
Whosoever suckst thee cockus off
Whomst puts the phallus into bone
Surrendered dome enclose, not cough!
Or mine cockus may snap in two

>>17353276
Is he a member of the 27 club?

>>17354545
>is 24 equal to 27?

>>17352932
Longfellow and Frost

>>17355337
I agree with Frost, but why Longfellow? He was popular in his time but his esteem has significantly declined since his death.

>>17352932
demons does not exist btw

>>17353398
Is that william bloke

>>17352932
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY

>>17355928
soulless

>>17355928
nice, I only have the literature
anthologies, but they have some poetry in them too.

>>17355937
I'm not suggesting one stop at the anthology. If you want to get into poetry you need to have an overview of what the art is. You need to understand how poets are situated in the history of poetry. You need to see the movements and how they are distinct. By reading an anthology you get exposure to the art. You learn what to look for as you read, and you get the background against which to determine how any given poem stands out. You can like a poem without having had any exposure to poetry, but you won't be able to appreciate it because you won't understand what it is.

>>17353000
Walt Whitman
William Wordsworth
Emily Dickinson
Ezra Pound
These are some that I enjoy. There are a lot of great poetry collections in print too, if you want to sample a lot of different authors.

>>17353186
Spear shaker