/lit/ - Literature

>>6106126
I've known intelligent people who don't get it either. It takes a combination of auditory and visual aptitude, as well is that one must essentially be a NF type.

>Tfw literally can't "get" poetry when there's 12/10 prose to read

I know this makes me an absolute pleb but I really can't shake it.

>>6106126
I get it but I hate it. Is that ok?

>>6106168

who doesnt "GET" poetry?.... KID?! Its all abooat the feeling... idiot...? If you cant enjoy lord byron... you are a lesser human. SORRY, NOT SORRY

>>6106126
Neither did I before I was sufficiently well read.

I hate poetry
I hate literature
I hate text
I hate ortography in any form
I hate myself as I am typing this right now
I also hate typing while I am at it
I hate re-reading sentences written in this post and subvocalizing them
I also hate oral tradition while I am at it
I hate gestural expression
I hate signifiers
I hate signified
I hate eye contact

Did I miss anything?
I hate missing things.

>>6106152
All prose is inferior to poetry, though.

>tfw can't drive lambos cause of those 12/10 Fords

Read Dante, plen ass bitch

>>6106147
I don't know about that, I'm an INTP and I think I "get" poetry, mostly Baudelaire, Eliot, Rilke, and recent poetry though.

>>6106147
>MBTI

>>6106181
ENFP

INFJ, I write the best poetry.

>>6106195
but I don't speak italian, anon

>>6106484
INFP, have you beat, sonny.

I sort of don't get poetry. Is there a division between making the words look beautiful (like alliteration) and making beautiful imagery? Word art and rhymes and things like that aren't appealing to me but I like being taken to different places. Anyone have any poetry recommendations?

>>6106195
>poetry in translation

>>6106126
Most people never listened a good poet, though. There just isn't a lot of aedos out there anymore.

Nevertheless,if people like music with lyrics, they can "get" poetry. At least, some edgy and pleb ones.

>>6106529
watch billy collins read on youtube. he's very accessible.

>>6106630
He's a horrible poet.

Is there a /lit/ guide to poetry?

Is Inferno a good place to start? It's the only poetry book I own, but haven't started it yet. I've been sort of enjoying Naked Lunch, which a friend described as poetry-but-not-really.

>>6106640
Don't start with Dante unless you can read him in his original language. Start with Paradise Lost.

I get poetry. I just don't like reading it.

Someone can just explain all the allusions and cool devices and metres for you.

>Makin up ur own
>just b urself

Every poem ever is about cocks. What do I win?

>>6106181
pshhht... nothin personnel kid....

>>6106646
>What do I win?

So would the Odyssey/Iliad count as 'good' poems?

>>6106637
sez you.

>>6106168
>i hate beauty

No its not okay. Lucky for you it's more likely that you don't actually get it, and that your probably just a retarded kid.

ENTP - I don't give a fuck. I give your fuck.

>>6106126
>that picture

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-14276074

>>6107096
the meme game just got real.

>>6106496
>>6106484
INFP masterrace, boyz

>>6107096
why are norwegians so fat though?

>>6107096
>All those "politicians" who are in their teens
What the fuck is this?

>>6106647
nice meme

>>6107280
It was a youth organization.

>>6107268
it's too cold to go outside and exercise

>>6107096
>was training to be a nurse

top kek

because it sucks western civilization got nothing worth mentioning beside junk food and fake boobs your entire culture is superficial your literature is shit your people are goddamn autistic your women are landwhale your presidents are niggers your low quality entertainment is based on foolishness and autism what the fuck did you expect ?? y'all waito piggu are disgusting scums e

>>6106126
>'I get poetry'
>'you know, poetry really speaks to me, intellectually of course...'

>>6109177
ya know, it's a tough call but i think, yeah, pretension upsets me more than ignorance

I can analyse poems and understand them, but they don't give me the feels.