/lit/ - Literature

Boring.

>>17502616
Please tel me this is made up.

>>17502616
the internet is ruining our ability to produce media

>>17502616
She's the new Rupi Kaur

>>17502616
Trash

>>17502626
>>17502636
>>17502641
>There’s a poem in Charlottesville
>where tiki torches string a ring of flame
>tight round the wrist of night
>where men so white they gleam blue—
>seem like statues
>where men heap that long wax burning
>ever higher
>where Heather Heyer
>blooms forever in a meadow of resistance.

>>17502616
Last ditch effort to make poetry popular. I guess it's working?

>>17502616
debunked

>>17502663
Go back

>>17502616
Ok cool but when I plagiarize an 8th grader I get "forcibly removed from the premises for further questioning"
Fucking double standards

>>17502655
>seem like statues
Seems like she's sort of into them.

>>17502663
>>>/b/

>>17502616
>>Tyrants fear the poet.
>>Now that we know it
>>we can’t blow it.
>>We owe it
>>to show it
>>not slow it
>>although it
>>hurts to sew it
>>when the world
>>skirts below it.
>>
>>Hope—
>>we must bestow it
>l>ike a wick in the poet
>>so it can grow, lit,
>>bringing with it
>>stories to rewrite—
>>the story of a Texas city depleted but not defeated
>>a history written that need not be repeated
>>a nation composed but not yet completed.

>>17502616
>l>ike a wick in the poet
>>so it can grow, lit,
This is one of the worst rhymes I’ve ever seen.

Don’t forget to preorder her book.

>>17502616
I like poetry that doesn't rhyme.

> In 2017, Gorman said she intends to run for president in 2036, and she has subsequently often repeated this hope. On being selected as one of Glamour magazine's 2018 "College Women of the Year", she said: "Seeing the ways that I as a young black woman can inspire people is something I want to continue in politics. I don’t want to just speak works; I want to turn them into realities and actions." After she read her poem "The Hill We Climb" at President Joe Biden's inauguration in 2021, Hillary Clinton tweeted her support for Gorman's 2036 aspiration.
Would she win?

>>17502845
Yes we know, Mr. John Milton, we all agree you're very intelligent

>>17502878
>comparing this shit to Milton
please be pretending

>>17502616
State Propaganda.

>>17502896
I didn't compare anything to Milton, I just called the anon Milton in a condescending manner because Milton didn't like rhyming poetry either
I think this poem is dumb

>>17502616
Literally every "youth poet laureate" is a WoC who won with a poem about race or gender. You can't make this shit up.

>>17502937
Welcome to 2021, either tweet about it and get deplatformed from your bank of choice or get over it

>>17502616
She doesn't seem to be a great poet, but basic poetry being shared with the public isn't bad. Pretending it's good is a problem though, especially with POC if it means reducing a group of people to a stereotype. Sub-par poetry at inaugurations isn't new by the way. Here's Harold Bloom on Maya Agnelou's poem at Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993: "When Maya Angelou read a poem for Clinton's first inauguration, the Times printed the text, a monument of sincerity, and in an editorial praised this effusion for its "Whitmanian amplitudes." Recently, one of the Times rock critics proclaimed our contemporary Mozart to be the glyph formerly known as Prince. Literary satire is impossible when the Times exceeds Nathaniel West and Terry Southern in outrageousness."
In an interview with Charlie Rose he was asked about it as well and said that he agreed with Oscar Wilde in saying that "All bad poetry is sincere", and that Maya Angelou's poem was very sincere.

>>17503101
>All bad poetry is sincere
What did he mean by this?

>>17502616
Nigger

>>17502616
dumb hoe

This negress is the biggest example of astroturf and fake hype I’ve seen in a while

>>17502616
this is just a hoodrapp

>I met a traveller from an antique land,
>Who said—“a vast pillar of stone
>Stands on the Mall. . . . Near them, on the stands,
>Half sunk a shattered visage sits, whose frown,
>And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
>Tell that his short-term memory had long ceased
>And he had the most progressive admin in history,
>To remind him what day it was;
>And on the teleprompter, these words appear:
>My name is Amtrak Joe, and I'm a candidate for Senate;
>But you can't have that $2000 just yet Jack!
>I know I said first 100 days but I'm real busy
>Now is the time for Unity, just go back to brunch.”

>>17503384
Here's the Oscar Wilde quote: "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic".
I take it to mean that honesty is not the only requirement of poetry, the writer should be aware of and make use of the aesthetics of language to achieve the desired effect of affecting the reader. Maya Angelou's poem seems to preach to us to be prepared for a better future, but the imagery and language used has no effect on us to make us feel brave, hopeful, heroic, or whatever else we might need to feel at that kind of moment. There's an honest attempt at something there, but it's not well done imo. But I'm just a pseud so who knows