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Hey /lit/,

I'm currently doing an assignment to do with poems, and I'm particularly interested in poems which deal with aspiring to higher things, motivation and reaching your goals ect. At the moment, "If" by Rudyard Kipling and "It Couldn't Be Done" by Edgar Guest have been of interest to me. I'm not particularly interested in the prose and structure of the poems, but more about the message it conveys.

Any recommendations on poems/poets that work with this theme?

>> No.4206465

>>4206448
Vindictus. Reading it is confirmed to make you twice the man you were before.

>It matters not how strait the gate,
>How charged with punishments the scroll,
>I am the master of my fate:
>I am the captain of my soul.

Also, Ulysses by Tennyson

>And see the great Achilles, whom we knew
>Though much is taken, much abides; and though
>We are not now that strength which in old days
>Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
>One equal temper of heroic hearts,
>Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
>To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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4206473

>>4206465
>Vindictus

It's "Invictus" OP, don't listen to this nignog.

>> No.4206690

>>4206465
Both are actually great man, thanks heaps! Any more?

>> No.4206695

>>4206448
"if" is such a sick poem

>> No.4207996

>>4206473
My bad, no clue why I got the name wrong. I had it written down right in front of me.

>> No.4208003

>>4206448
Bukowski

>> No.4208566

>>4208003
Fuck you

>> No.4210254

Aren't there always motivational quotes and poems on greeting carts?

Goethes 'Erinnerung'

>Willst du immer weiter schweifen?
>Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah.
>Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen,
>Denn das Glück ist immer da.

(Do you wish to roam farther and farther?
See the good that lies so near.
Just learn how to capture your luck,
for your luck is always there.)