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Definitive epic poetry power rankings Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:10:02 2015 No.6009531 [Reply] [Original]

GOD TIER:
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost

PATRICIAN TIER:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Iliad

PLEB TIER:
The Odyssey
The Aeneid

SHIT TIER:
Metamorphoses
The Mahabharata

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:11:42 2015 No.6009538 >>6009531 I've honestly got to say, The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost were two of the most boring things I've ever read.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:13:22 2015 No.6009553 GOD TIER: Enter The 36 Chambers PATRICIAN TIER: Illmatic PLEB TIER: Good Kid, Maad City SHIT TIER: Yeezus

>>	H.Q.S.S.G Fri Jan 16 12:14:50 2015 No.6009559 >>6009538 Don't you know that anything fun is pleb? Only patricians will power through a boring work. Being boring is the first prereq. of a patrician work

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:15:12 2015 No.6009560 >>6009531 >ovid in shit tier k if u wanna stay pleb I guess I mean I can't stop you but

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:16:38 2015 No.6009570 >>6009559 Is it just me, or is /lit/ getting carried away with the "pleb this, pleb that" thing lately? It's starting to feel more like /mu/ and /v/ every day.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:18:25 2015 No.6009575 >>6009553 >SHIT TIER: >Yeezus Generous

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:18:49 2015 No.6009577 >>6009570 >lately >>/lit/?task=search&ghost=&search_text=pleb

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:25:20 2015 No.6009602 >Ovid >Anything but God Tier Are you an asshole?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:26:26 2015 No.6009606 >>6009560 He probably hasn't even tried to read the Golding translation.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:26:27 2015 No.6009577,1 High school tier: all of the above

>>	Op Fri Jan 16 12:27:05 2015 No.6009611 File: 37 KB, 500x379, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I am memer, destroyer of threads

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:28:10 2015 No.6009613 >>6009577 Well, it's always been thrown around here, but today it just seems out of control. Maybe I'm just noticing it more.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:28:44 2015 No.6009617 >>6009531 Where would you place Beowulf? >>6009553 >not listing any of Kanye's other stuff So, I'll be reading Paradise Lost for an English Lit class. I've heard it's depressing as fuck. What should I read after as an antidote?

>>	Op Fri Jan 16 12:30:39 2015 No.6009624 File: 95 KB, 404x507, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You guys and your memes (^:

>>	Op/zeeburg Fri Jan 16 12:31:43 2015 No.6009625 File: 51 KB, 640x515, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm back guys

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 12:32:53 2015 No.6009629 File: 25 KB, 310x232, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:34:25 2015 No.6009643 >>6009538 Paradise Lost is boring as hell. The Divine Comedy, on the other hand, has some really vivid and crazy scenes and is acturally pretty damn cool. Both are based.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:34:33 2015 No.6009645 >>6009531 I agree except for Metamorphoses which is patrician imho. You seem like a big Romanophobe tbh.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:37:09 2015 No.6009658 >>6009625 What's your opinion on literature, zeeburg?

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 12:39:07 2015 No.6009666 >>6009658 I think they are good when they have memes (:

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 12:40:34 2015 No.6009672 File: 44 KB, 300x399, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is it just me, or has /lit/ been lacking memes lately

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:41:30 2015 No.6009676 >>6009666 Like Walter Benjamin, then? Or more like J.K. 'stretched his/her legs' Rowling?

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 12:42:37 2015 No.6009682 File: 46 KB, 400x398, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What is your guises most favorite memes? I like simpsons ones!!!!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:42:38 2015 No.6009684 File: 27 KB, 541x402, 1323525.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6009672 zeeburg ur memes have brought several generations of bowel movements upon my family

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 12:44:00 2015 No.6009687 >>6009676 I like Rowling because word for word she is more of a meme than any other author

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:48:27 2015 No.6009706 But not Walter Benjamin?

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 12:49:00 2015 No.6009707 File: 318 KB, 1200x1600, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] tell butterfly I love her

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 12:50:10 2015 No.6009711 >>6009706 He's ok, but not nearly as meme tastic as Rowling

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:50:26 2015 No.6009713 >>6009687 But not Walter Benjamin?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:53:11 2015 No.6009720 >>6009531 The Aeneid should definitely be higher, at least on a level with The Iliad and Gilgamesh. Virgil, unlike Homer and however wrote Gilgamesh, is an actual documented man, not the name we apply to a tradition.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:53:17 2015 No.6009722 >>6009711 Well, he more or less proved that all of society was memes, so in my opinion, once you've got your fill of Benjamin, where memes are concerned, you've got an infinite supply. Justkidding 'Legstretcher' Roleplay would be nothing without him.

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 12:53:44 2015 No.6009724 File: 60 KB, 453x576, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw I basically choose what threads go bye-bye

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 12:55:30 2015 No.6009729 >>6009720 sir edmund barton pls

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 12:55:38 2015 No.6009731 >yfw I'm actually feminister

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 12:56:42 2015 No.6009734 File: 219 KB, 1240x898, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6009720 >>6009729 Get out of my thread, now

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 13:00:16 2015 No.6009742 File: 44 KB, 400x374, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It would be an honor if the real zeeburg would post ITT

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 13:00:23 2015 No.6009743 btw i'm a grill

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 13:02:14 2015 No.6009752 >>6009743 Yea, a fellow memer

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 13:03:24 2015 No.6009755 File: 79 KB, 300x283, 758255838_1321050.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6009752 i am in fact a moar hopeful meemer than u

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 13:03:47 2015 No.6009756 File: 58 KB, 500x461, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 13:04:55 2015 No.6009759 >>6009755 Fuck off, my memes are at least 2x as good as yours

>>	zeeburg Fri Jan 16 13:06:34 2015 No.6009765 File: 55 KB, 597x519, NSfWfLg5BiU.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6009759 cry moar bibbee

>>	Therealzeeburg Fri Jan 16 13:07:40 2015 No.6009768 >>6009765 Pepe is outdated you noob memer

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 13:08:16 2015 No.6009771 >>6009617 here. Any answers about Paradise Lost?

>>	Therealzeeburg Fri Jan 16 13:10:42 2015 No.6009777 >>6009617 >>6009771 This is a meme thread. Leave plot (^:

>>	Therealzeeburg Fri Jan 16 13:11:34 2015 No.6009781 File: 84 KB, 259x259, sdfsd.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6009768 >he cares things r outdated JIDF detected

Anonymous Fri Jan 16 13:12:26 2015 No.6009784

>>6009617
>>6009771
Paradise Lost, imo, isn't so much depressing as 'powerful.' Meaning you don't necessarily want something 'happy' but something lighthearted. I think I read Alice after I finished Paradise Lost, and Tropic of Cancer in between the Books.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 13:13:32 2015 No.6009788 >>6009784 Cool, thanks.

>>	Thereallyrealzeeburg Fri Jan 16 13:13:53 2015 No.6009790 File: 325 KB, 1210x797, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6009781 >Calling someone else a Jew I know a certain group who does this.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 13:16:53 2015 No.6009802 What about Pharsalia?

>>	Thereallyrealzeeburg Fri Jan 16 13:17:48 2015 No.6009806 >>6009802 Stop not memeing you fag!!!!

>>	Theactuallyreallyrealzeeburg Fri Jan 16 13:18:02 2015 No.6009809 File: 85 KB, 844x1157, dasdas.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6009790 Yeah I am illuminatal and I am not fethered by trend-timespace like your pitiful matzoball self goyim ARISE

>>	Theactuallysuperreallyrealzeeb(...) Fri Jan 16 13:22:06 2015 No.6009832 >>6009809 Ur just mad because everyone knows your a shit memer and not the real zeeburg

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 13:29:47 2015 No.6009858 >>6009531 You're shit tier. Metamorphoses and the Aeneid should be up there with God Tier. Both had a huge impact on Romantic Era poets.

>>	Theactuallysuperreallyrealzeeb(...) Fri Jan 16 13:30:31 2015 No.6009865 >>6009858 Fuck off

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 16 13:38:55 2015 No.6009895 >>6009577 /lit/, 14829 pages of pleb.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 17 02:26:53 2015 No.6012502 File: 276 KB, 1000x690, Aisaka.Taiga.full.843886.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6009531 >Metamorphoses >Shit Tier

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 17 02:40:15 2015 No.6012529 anytime, mod

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 17 03:57:43 2015 No.6012714 >>6009617 I don't think it was depressing at all. Perhaps if you're a Christian (Milton sure illustrates the cruelty of Christianity). Just read it, it's absolutely phenomenal, and much more interesting than The Divine Comedy, in my opinion.

>>	kitty !kitty/EnNg Sat Jan 17 05:05:33 2015 No.6012821 >>6009538 when a great book is boring to you it means you are too pleb to enjoy it, you should be ready to read them

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 17 05:08:24 2015 No.6012828 >>6009553 >Omittong Trap Lord from the God tier

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