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I was reading some Yeats and damn, he was just so pathetic and weak. I feel like less of a man just for reading that crap.

Are all poets like this?

>> No.3948956

>>3948840
Wanted to post the obligatory comic but it's here already: >>3946261

>> No.3948963

>Are all poets like this?
No.

>> No.3948971

>>3948956
That's actually what made me go and read Yeats.

>>3948963
Thank god. Can you name a few that are not like this?

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3948974

>>3948956

Read some Byron and bro up

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>>3948974
Oh god who makes these comics anyway?

>> No.3949023

>>3948999
That girl who does all the webcomics using really old stock pictures. Hark, a vagrant.
Except they're not on her site that I can see for some reason.

>> No.3949024

>>3948999
hark a vagrant

>> No.3949050

>>3948999
Kate Beaton http://www.harkavagrant.com/

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>>3949023
>>3949024
Thanks!

>my face when I go to her website and I'm greeted by a comic about "the secret garden"

>> No.3949306

Because fuck sincerity and authentic expressions of emotions, amirite guise?

>> No.3949318

catullus

>> No.3949323

/pol/ thread
let it die, do not reply

>> No.3949322

lmao as if you could do better.

>> No.3949338

>>3949306
>I read poetry because it feels "authentic"
Could you be more of a faggot?

>> No.3949395

>>3949306
There's nothing wrong with sincerity and authenticity in itself, it's just that sincerity and authenticity don't automatically legitimise everything, especially not tremendous faggotry.

>> No.3949626

>>3949306
no, fuck you and people like you

>> No.3949634

Real men have never worried about expressing emotions. It's the weak men that are afraid of showing them.

There's nothing weak about Yeats. He writes about weakness but he does it very strongly. Whereas I imagine that if you, seemingly a weak man, were to write about strength, you wouldn't be half as bold or visionary as Yeats.

>> No.3949644

>>3948840
>I was reading some Yeats and damn, he was just so pathetic and weak.

Kill yourself. Stop reading "literature" in Bukowski and never come back, fucking pleb.

>> No.3949663

>>3949634
No. Real men dominate their emotions. Yeats was a loser, or as we would call him today, a "beta".

>> No.3949675

>>3949663
>Real men dominate their emotions.

Achilles? Socrates? Alexander the Great? Beowulf? Joan of Arc? George Washington? Admiral Nelson?

The only people that dominate their emotions are the small men who accomplish little like Marcus Aurelius.

>> No.3949682

>Are all poets like this?
no, because yeats is awful and benefits from being anthologized

>> No.3949730

>>3948840
Do you even An Irish Airman Foresees His Death?

>> No.3949799

>>3948840
Read Rimbaud

I mean he's not all manly with swords and shit but he's no wimp

>> No.3949891

>>3949799
he's shit when translated