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3771977 No.3771977 [Reply] [Original]

If your poem doesn't have meter get the fuck out of my face

>> No.3771980

>>3771977

Eliot was a catholic.
His only major flaw. Yet a fatal flaw.

>> No.3771997

>>3771980
He was also a tryhard and antisemetic.

>> No.3771999

>>3771980
A lot of great writers were born catholic numbskull

>> No.3772007

>>3771977

Poetry does not always need meter.
sometimes,
a unifying theme,
creates the same effect.

>> No.3772008
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3772008

>> No.3772011

>>3772008
who is that cunt?

>> No.3772012

Most "poets" nowadays don't even know what prosody is. They probably couldn't even tell you whether a syllable was stressed or not.

They just
break up prose
like this into
lines and think it is
somehow
poignant

hey look,
novels take too long to write,
okay?
and i fired this "poem" off
in less than five minutes?

Eat my
plop.

>> No.3772019

>>3771997
>he was also antisemetic.

That does not excuse his catholicism, although it is a plus

.>>3771999
>A lot of great writers were born catholic

he converted

>> No.3772026

>>3772011
lol uncultivated pleb

>> No.3772027

Hurrdurr everything was better in the past.

>> No.3772030

How is being catholic a flaw?

>> No.3772034
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3772034

>>3771977
Does it have to be a continuous meter, or can it change throughout?

>> No.3772035

>>3772030
>How is being catholic a flaw?

go read their history from 1100 up till now.

>> No.3772040

>>3772030
It's because they have a rich culture and a strong tradition.

people find it threatening to their protestant non-existance

>> No.3772043

>>3772040
>It's because they have a rich culture of persecuting the weak and a strong tradition of killing everyone, raping boys, and stealing babies

>> No.3772049

>>3772035
yes history ok, but...wouldn't it be kinda cool to let your existence be a moral drama. A struggle between good and bad. Inspiring and epic.

>> No.3772051

>>3772043
Now that's what I call eggy.

>> No.3772070

>>3772049

life is already a struggle, no need to subscribe to an insane cult

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3772111

>>3772012
>tfw you did this and feel bad now, especially since people think your shit is good

>> No.3772140

>>3772111
damn chill out

>> No.3772145

even rap music has meter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9W4XvrUYyQ

>> No.3772234

T.S. Eliot was a hack. Obscure allusions =/= good poetry.

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3772256

>>3772234

>Discounting a poet on the basis of your reductive misunderstanding of one of his poems
>Thinking that Baudelaire, Frazer and Shakespeare constitute 'obscure' references

Oy vey!

>> No.3772258

>>3772234
>I don't actually read poetry, but I'm peripherally aware enough to make believe I know something!

>> No.3772263

>>3772012

I do this. breaking up your lines like that can create lots of rhythm for the reader.

>> No.3772290

>>3772043
So does literally every other religion (and atheists too!)