/lit/ - Literature

Next, this is a ranking for best poets as voted by /lit/. This vote ran for a week, and each voter was allowed 5 nominations. It required a Google account to prevent spam, but it was anonymous.

Lastly, there's s a 444-pages PDF that you can download from https://files.catbox.moe/bppi3z.pdf or from Libgen/Z-library (in the upload queue at the moment). It contains all the poems posted and links to the Warosu archive if you want to read the relevant discussions.

I also updated the /lit/ wiki to add the materials mentioned: https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki/Poem_of_the_Day

Thank you for your participation and support! I hope these will help /lit/ users who want to get into poetry.

Have a great 2023!

>>21463801
better get me something goooood

Appreciate it anon! :)

>>21463801
I already said so in my vote submission, but thankyou for your work on these. How did you choose the poems? Did you pick them out as you went, or all up front? As well as having a chance to appreciate many good ones I already loved, I discovered one of my best poems of the year in one of your threads, something by Vernon Scannell about dancing under the sword of damocles, sorry I can't remember the title or post the image, it's saved on my other machine.
Surprised that rossetti (whom I voted for) made the top ten. Accidentally left Ernest Dowson off of my voting slip, surely he woulda made the top spot if I'd remembered.
roll.

>>21463801
I roll on my own.

I value little those much vaunted rights
that have for some the lure of dizzy heights;
I do not fret because the gods refuse
to let me wrangle over revenues,
or thwart the wars of kings; and 'tis to me
of no concern whether the press be free
to dupe poor oafs or whether censors cramp
the current fancies of some scribbling scamp.
These things are words, words, words. My spirit fights
for deeper Liberty, for better rights.
Whom shall we serve—the people or the State?
The poet does not care—so let them wait.
To give account to none, to be one's own
vassal and lord, to please oneself alone,
to bend neither one's neck, nor inner schemes,
nor conscience to obtain something that seems
power but is a flunkey's coat; to stroll
in one's own wake, admiring the divine
beauties of Nature and to feel one's soul
melt in the glow of man's inspired design
—that is the blessing, those are the rights!

>>21463801
Only 16 people voted? Thought there would be more

>>21463801
rolling

>>21463853
Thanks anon. I picked one every day based on any number of factors: feedback from you, recent poems I had posted, something I've read recently, a special occasion, etc. Sometimes I'd just pick a postmodernist poem because I'd know I won't be home throughout the day to bump the thread, and these poems would attract more discussion.

The poem you mentioned is Song by Vernon Scannel by the way, and there were only 16 voters / ~75 nominations, so 5th place is all the poets who got 2 votes. Surprised Blake didn't make it.

Oh and a chart that shows all poets posted and their number of poems.

>>21463879
Well, god bless you for your effortposting (god bless all effortposters, it's a thankless task). You picked a good overview of lyric poetry. So will you be continuing in the new year? Your phrasing on the wiki suggests not, and yet I already see a thread for today, so either you're being aped or i take it you intend to continue. More Walter de la Mare this year pls thx.

>>21463853
>roll
i got an arundel tomb, nice.

>>21463994
God bless you anon for your participation and encouragement. It's not me who posted today's poem of the day; I'm done myself, but if anyone decides to continue I wish them best of luck and I'll try to participate too.

rolling. here's hoping for eliot, marlowe, donne, or blake

hrm, reroll

>>21463801
ñ

>>21464048
ok now *that* one hit the spot.

>>21463801
Rollan

>>21463804
Eliotsisters... we won.

>>21463853
Pity, since I did vote for Dowson

>>21463898
A thing of beauty is a joy forever :)
roll

>>21463801
ROOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL

>>21464142
kek, dammit, so he really woulda made it in if i'd remembered!
meanwhile i just checked the PDF and saw, OP, that you left my cringy christmas wishes in the voting table, was imagining you'd trim those out, kek
but thx for doing the pdf, checking out the landor poems now, i remember liking one of them.

>>21464303
>the landor poems
turns out two of the three are the same one, lol, but at least i found what i was looking for (it was that one)

>>21463801
rollin

>>21463801
They see me rollin'

>>21463801
>best poem missing

Waouh, that’s a nicely assembled peedeeëff

>>21463801
Roll and I'll share my thoughts

>>21465064
>Fire and Ice
>By Robert Frost

>Some say the world will end in fire,
>Some say in ice.
Atypical beginning, draws in attention at the expense of beauty.
>From what I’ve tasted of desire
>I hold with those who favor fire.
Ok there's little literary beauty here, and it's more of a philosophical quip.
>But if it had to perish twice,
>I think I know enough of hate
Continues the idea
>To say that for destruction ice
>Is also great
>And would suffice.
Bit of a quirky ending with "would suffice".

Overall, it's obviously a classic, but, like Frost's most poems, they don't have that much beauty. With respect to the idea, it's a bit hard to really make something out of it. Are hate and desire really antithetical? Some say Nazis were driven by hate for others others say Nazis were driven by love for their country. Communists were driven by hate for the bourgeoisie or love for the commoners? Will the world end in fire, ice, or both? I guess its value is in its pith, not in its deep meaning or beauty.

>>21463815
Someone should share this with our redditsisters

>>21463801
time to roll , i feel im getting a prime number this time

>>21463804
No women?

>>21465819
>Dickinson, H.D., Brontë
Overrated
>Rossetti, Browning, Plath
Not even rated
>all other female poets
Literally who

>>21463898
The top 4 here are also in the top 4 here >>21463804

>>21463801
ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN

>>21463801

>>21463801
Rolling

>>21463801
roll

>>21463801
rolling

>>21463801
roll

>>21463801
Rolling, boss! Thanks for all your hard work!

>>21465906
>Rosetti - not rated
Bro, you're trippin.
>>21465819
They simply cannot stand when there are so few places at the top, and this is an indisputable fact.

roll

>>21464781
>best poem
The greatest irony - Lovecraft was as stunted as he looks. I bet you are as well.

roll

>>21463801
Roll for a good poem to start my day

>>21463804
This is a good ranking desu. Better than the other chart in pic related

>>21465500
post it on r/poetry

>>21463801
R O L L
O L L R
L L R O
L R O L

>>21465906
>>21466915
>>21463804
>no Edna St. Vincent Millay

>>21463801
Rolling, thanks for the threads!

>>21467734
I don't know how

roll

> but, like Frost's most poems, they don't have that much beauty
Retard.

>>21468052
Yes, he also doesn't seem to know Marianne Moore. There are many good female authors, but still - none which could claim a top five seat. Not even close.

>>21468495
Post a beautiful Frost poem

>>21468639
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth—
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth—
A snow-drop spider, a flower like froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appal?—
If design govern in a thing so small.

>>21468657
Pfft. Whatever man.

>Pfft. Whatever man.

>>21468639
Are you serious? He has so many. Here's one I love, ESL-kun.

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
ROBERT FROST

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Reroll

Rollin' the bones

>>21463801
please not pound, please not pound

>>21469419
>gets swinefag

>>21463801

rollin

>>21463801
roll

>>21463801
Gimme

>>21463801
roll

>>21463804
english lit... how predictable

>english lit... how predic-ACK

>>21463801
Give me a woman :3

rollin

>>21463801
Roll em

>>21463801
rlel

>>21471908
>Idea 61: Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part
>When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death
wow...that's pretty good

roll

rlol

roll

>>21467724
>dickinson the 5th best poet to have ever written

Roll for my very flesh to be a great poem

>>21473043
She should be higher.

>>21463801
Rolling

>>21463801
Jews

>>21463801
Roll

>>21463801
Gimme something good