/lit/ - Literature

>>6334461
START WITH THE BEDOUINS

Science has made poetry obsolete

>>6334512
>>6334494
oyy rofl

>>6334461
/lit/ sucks at poetry.

Your best bet is just to read people you've heard about, read them slowly, and think a lot about what the author is writing.

You probably won't develop your own taste for poetry for quite a while.

>>6334512
>Science outside the immediate sensible world

From my assessment of your image and opening post on the literature section of an anonymous translated from the Japanese cartoon subtitle discussion website:
Fitzgerald's "Rubaiyat"
Pound's "Chinese translations"

Naturally, we assume you have already started with the Greeks, and, are familiar with Pope's Odyssey. We're so glad it motivated you to move forward with the form; we all look forward to you never using the sticky and asking for vague recommendations as a regular event.

>>6334461

There's a blog that might be helpful, at least in getting something like a start in seeing how to read poetry, and how to appreciate it:

http://www.ashokkarra.com/

This guy basically posts up poems and then works through them carefully to get at something worth thinking about. He writes about philosophy and politics as well, but most of the blog is made up of poetry readings. He has a good introduction to how he approaches things here:

http://www.ashokkarra.com/2014/02/why-read-poetry-22014/

And here's an index of authors, if you'd like to start with a particular selection:

http://www.ashokkarra.com/posts-by-subject/

i have three books for you, op. pick up 'poetic meter & poetic form' by fussell, the 'glossary of literary terms' by abram, and the norton anthology of poetry. these are the only three things you need to really develop a good knowledge of english poetry.

>>6334559

>science inside the immediate sensible world

look what you've done

>>6334461

Try Robert Pinsky's "The Sounds of Poetry", which does a good job of straightforwardly explaining how rhythm, meter, and rhyme play into the meaning of the poem without being outlandish about it, or getting too technical.

>>6334646


good recommendations.

Also, Blooms " Best Poems of the English Language" is a bit of pedantic wankery, but is actually a good collection and analysis.

That's a cool picture. It looks like the man was strolling around in the park and then he had a huge existential insight, a complete overwhelming catharsis, an epiphany by all means and he thought to himself "the fuck is this all about?!" and is lost in a swirl of moving images and sounds like life really is, completely meaningless and beautiful and bizarre and that was Allah himself engulfing all around and the man is struck by this vision and so he bows down to the floor in supreme reverence and awe while some other younger fags look at him from afar and think he is just high on acid.

>>6334775
noice

>likes the style, subject, word choice in the poetry of the Romantics
>actively tries to emulate that style along with post-modern stylistic inclusion.
>mfw people critique my poetic diction
>mfw I am forced to be critiqued by people who have no basis for their poetic criticism