/lit/ - Literature

>>>/po/
We do.

Because its a shitty art form for people who can't write properly.

Especially that free verse bullshit like Leaves of Ass.

>>1984530
>/po/
don't get trolled op

that's the pokemon board

>>1984534
>shitty art form

lol i love stories please read me some more mommy

>>1984534
Precisely.

I know that it stopped being good around 1800.

Poetry, not Whitman. Puke.

>>1984543
>not liking Whitman
>the best american poet of all time

1/10, thats the best I can do

I love poetry.

My favorite poem is "The Love Song" by a guy named J. Alfred Prufrock, but I can't find anything else by him.

Help?

>>1984534

a thousand times this.

>>1984549
I recommend you read Charles Dickens. Its a really good book by an author named David Copperfield.

>>1984534
How do I know you are not just dumb?

>>1984566
All evidence says that he is.

>>1984534
You piece of shit go back to your NOVELS.
JESUS CHRIST DESCRIPTIONS
500 PAGES
NOVELS
Are you a woman who can't handle the density of poetry?
Do you need CHARACTERS to sympathize with?
Or STORIES to fantasize about?

THE GODDAMN DISCLOSURE OF BEING, THIS IS WHAT POETRY IS.
GODDAMMIT STORIES.

>>1984572
>DISCLOSURE OF BEING

Please explain what this means.

>>1984536
>>1984539
>>1984560
>>1984566
>>1984571
>>1984572

>>1984574

He's saying that poetry reveals certain truths about our existence.

And I'd like to see more poetry discussed on here too.

Poetry is shit
It is honestly tasteless
Fart poop sex tits ass

That's a haiku

>>1984572
So poetry is what being a man is all about.

>>1984578

You're cool. What the hell are you doing here?

>>1984578
What sort of truths?

>>1984593
Not the original ranter, but maybe the truth that shit doesn't make any sense, life is horrible, we're all essentially alone, and after you die that's it?

What the fuck are you talking about?

>>1984591

I'm a recluse and I have no friends.

>>1984593

I don't know. Poetry?
The ones you can ever hint at with language.

>>1984604

>>1984608

Ugh. Take the 'I don't know. Poetry?' comment and apply it to >>1984604

Now I look like an ass. Great.

literature : poetry :: actor : mime

>>1984608
>The ones you can ever hint at with language.

Perhaps I am misinformed, but I was given to understand that poetry relies on language.

>>1984601
And you managed to reveal that without the use of poetry and with great economy of language. Well done.

>>1984613

>Perhaps I am misinformed, but I was given to understand that poetry relies on language.

Considering poetry usually consists of words it's understandable that you would think that. What i was saying was that the best poetry often conveys something that goes beyond the language itself, something just out of reach of comprehension, and it's this mystery that gives it it's ethereal beauty.

I started thinking about how impossible it is for an object to define itself, like Alan Watts said, 'trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth'. Well, it occured to me that poetry is what people write when they try and bite their own teeth.

I know poetry really super good.

>>1984616
>What i was saying was that the best poetry often conveys something that goes beyond the language itself, something just out of reach of comprehension, and it's this mystery that gives it it's ethereal beauty.
It really doesn't.

You're just a massive faggot.

This is a haiku.

>>1984616
So good poetry is incomprehensible?

How could one tell the difference between good poetry and nonsense?

>>1984618

I bet you're great in discussions. Oh, and only an idiot would call that a haiku by the way.

>>1984620

You comprehend good poetry on a deeper level.

>>1984624
You comprehend good; poetry on a deeper level.

>>1984620

Maybe nonsense is more in tune with what's really going on than we know.

>>1984624
Deeper than what?

>>1984630

Deeper than you can go with questions.

>>1984636
How convenient.

>>1984639

Things do wrap themselves up nicely sometimes, yes.

>>1984620
>>1984630
>>1984639

Study some Aesthetics.

>>1984639
How poetic (eg. stupid).

>>1984646
>>>/s/

>>1984652

That's some good poetry.

>>1984652

Thanks, that X-Men cosplay thread is providing some good aesthetic redemption.

>>1984666

>mfw everyone leaves to fap over Rogue

>>1984534
I'm sorry but you don't understand literature if you think that. Poetry is the purest form of linguistic art. Obviously you know nothing

>>1984616
Agreed. Maybe there's only a superficial resemblance to fiction.

>>1984618
Why does everyone announce their haikus? I bet after composing every haiku Basho said "That was a haiku."

Dork.

>literature : poetry :: actor : mime

This:

literature : poetry :: carbon : diamond

>>1984608
Oh. You should get out more. People would like you.

by 'people' he means like-minded dimwits

>>1984816

bet you dislike poetry.

>>1984816
You're obviously too cool for this board. We use punctuation here.

I have not once read a poem that taught me anything I did not already know.

>>1984838
LMAO

Good one.

>>1984838
>I have not once read a poem
You could've ended the post there, and it would've meant the same thing.