/lit/ - Literature

No.

As a heterosexual cisgendered white male, I find poetry repulsive.

>>6396046
Have you ever actually studied poetry in university? I have. I don't have a survey or anything, but most of the professor I ever talked to on it felt she was the greatest, or at least one of.

>>6396042
>mfw not her quote

She didn't write with regular meter, so she's not even a poet.

>greatest poet of all time
>A black American woman
>black
>American
>woman

Sure is kid.

>>6396042
>>6396065
entertaining b8 m8

>>6396086
Reported. Take your moronic /pol/ shitposting and get off our board

>>>/pol/

>>6396146
He is right, and your obtuse mind won't even know what he meant

Political or social justice poets are kinda lame

>>6396163
On gp, when something starts being useful, it becomes ugly

Baudelaire

>>6396042
>arbitary line breaks with no regard for meter
>'poetry'

>>6396163
Maya Angelou really is the greatest poet of all time though, maybe tied with Langston Hughes. Adversity hones talent, it's the same reason black comedians are the funniest, black musicians make the most original music, and black athletes hold all the world records.

>>6396194
>implying you know the first thing about how poetry works

>>6396199
This is weak bait, please, no more.

>>6396206
>implying you do

>>6396042
>le so witty and deep aphorism xDD

>>6396199
I thought Louie CK was Mexican.

Don't birds just sing to find other birds to fuck or warn other bird bitches away from their territory?

>>6396042
>woman
>greatest anything

>>6396228
No, they're singing shitlord.

>>6396042
>Still I Rise Poem by Maya Angelou
>You may write me down in history
>With your bitter, twisted lies,
>You may tread me in the very dirt
>But still, like dust, I'll rise.
>
>Does my sassiness upset you?
>Why are you beset with gloom?
>'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
>Pumping in my living room.
>
>Just like moons and like suns,
>With the certainty of tides,
>Just like hopes springing high,
>Still I'll rise.
>
>Did you want to see me broken?
>Bowed head and lowered eyes?
>Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
>Weakened by my soulful cries.
>
>Does my haughtiness offend you?
>Don't you take it awful hard
>'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
>Diggin' in my own back yard.
>
>You may shoot me with your words,
>You may cut me with your eyes,
>You may kill me with your hatefulness,
>But still, like air, I'll rise.
>
>Does my sexiness upset you?
>Does it come as a surprise
>That I dance like I've got diamonds
>At the meeting of my thighs?
>
>Out of the huts of history's shame
>I rise
>Up from a past that's rooted in pain
>I rise
>I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
>Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
>Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
>I rise
>Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
>I rise
>Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
>I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
>I rise
>I rise
>I rise.

>greatest poem of all time
The worst part about poets like these is that you can't criticism them without someone pulling the race card or saying "oh, but she wuz so influential to the civil rights movement"

>>6396229
Is this a joke or a meme? I thought I was on one of 4chan's more enlightened boards. Women writers and poets are a fundamental part of chronicling the human condition. Doubly so if they are writers of color. To believe that a woman or a transgender person could not ascend those heights is so backwards and so deplorable that it makes my head spin. I mean it actually takes me aback. Please get out of your mom's basement, where you must currently reside because I don't think anyone in the real world would think like that, and join civilization.

Fuck, I mean honestly. Please don't post anything like this again. If you do, I'll report you to the mods, and they can give you a ban. I generally believe in restorative rather than punitive measures, but don't think I won't do it.

>>6396268
tl;dr

>>6396268
> I thought I was on one of 4chan's more enlightened boards.
is this a joke or a meme?
>Women writers and poets are a fundamental part of chronicling the human condition. Doubly so if they are writers of color. To believe that a woman or a transgender person could not ascend those heights is so backwards and so deplorable that it makes my head spin.
is this a joke or a meme?

or is it bait?

>f you do, I'll report you to the mods, and they can give you a ban. I generally believe in restorative rather than punitive measures, but don't think I won't do it.
ok it's bait

>>6396268
this is too long to be a troll but too dumb to be serious
i guess you're from another board
anyway it's a regular joke/meme on this board
you're still a fag, though

>>6396042

I honestly think /lit/ shines the brightest when it engages in shitposting. This thread should serve as a model for the entire website.

>>6396268

Nah, she's lame and corny, give me Auden any day of the week.

>>6396236
This is just dreadful and not to mention comically paranoid.

>>6396268
The other problem with posts like this is that Angelou is largely elevated because she's a black woman who writes middling, reader friendly poetry. Lets not pretend that more deserving black poets are ignored (like Reginal Shepherd) simply because they don't write some sloppy Billy Collins bullshit.

Greatest poet of all time is a daunting question. There are probably about 10 absolutely indispensable folks we could come up with off the cuff, much less zero in on just one. Shakespeare might be the most bang for the buck though.

>>6396212
true tho

>>6396213
I have a degree in it. Do you?

>>6396236
She was the US poet laureate for decades, so she probably is the greatest American poet of all time.

>>6396321
>he thinks his degree means shit
continue your post purchase rationalization

>>6396333
>She was the US poet laureate for decades
Maya Angelou and I have both been poet laureate of the US for the same amount of time.

>>6396309
No, Maya Angelou really was talented. But I agree there are many great black authors and poets who don't get nearly the respect they deserve, Langston Hughes for example, probably one of the greatest authors of all time, but gets completely ignored because he is black.

>>6396339
Langston Hughes is taught in high school and college precisely because he is black.
>among the greatest authors of all time
Come on now

>>6396268
Hahaha this absolutely has to be b8 no one could be this blatantly ostentatious hahaha gg OP

And in case you are serious, Maya Angelou isn't the greatest American poet, let alone GOAT. She is passable, but nowhere near the top.

>>6396339
just stop
you're from /pol/ and you're trying this reverse psych bullshit to rile us up
please fuck off

>>6396160
>implying it's deep

>>6396291
>dead white men
>artistically significant
Pick one.

>>6396339
See I'd completely disagree on both counts. He's well celebrated. I read him in middle school, high school, and college. I don't know anyone who doesn't know who he was. He's also celebrated because he's a big representative of the strain of Black American poetry in the first half of the 20th century. All the white guys worth knowing from that same period wrote more demanding stuff and I'd guess that's why more people don't read Ezra Pound in high school (outside of something like In a Station of the Metro).

Claudia Rankine or Carolyn Kizer on the other hand...

>>6396336
I hate this place

>>6396226

LITTLE
WHITE
DICKS

>>6396277
>>6396284
>>6396299
>>6396349
This isn't a troll. This isn't "bait." This is a concerned citizen of the world and 4chan, who is deeply upset by the casual and blanket racism that I see becoming popular. It's practically Nazi Germany on here. I try to speak truth to power on here when I can. If that offends you, sorry I'm not sorry. And you know what? I'm not alone. I speak for so many people on here who are too afraid to speak up.

Please think about how your words on here might impact someone. You have the power to heal. You have the power to help.

>>6396356
Watch a documentary on the man. He was idealistic and traveled to the Soviet Union with a group of black activists. USSR basically enslaved them and had them working literally picking cotton the rest of their lives. The only reason Hughes escaped was he had a little bit of fame. Then when he returned to the US, his work was all but forgotten. Try reading a history book some time instead of just fiction, moron.

>>6396435
post a link

>>6396439
Not sure what the name of the one I saw was. I was taking a Russian language course and the professor had us watch it for black history month.

>>6396408
I was on board with you because the neckbeardy fuckwads have some pretty kneejerk reactions to anybody outside of the anglosphere but now you just seem like a big fat pussy

>>6396408

lels abound man

>>6396408
I know this would normally be considered weak bait, but this anon has an impressive talent. He's legitimately making me feel like I'm on tumblr right now.

>>6396042
Homer, Dante, Shakespeare.

>>6396488
Isn't /lit/ supposed to be one of the more enlightened boards? Where did anti-intellectuals like you come from? Seriously, which board did you just arrive from, pol? Please go back, and tell your friends to stay in their crib.

>>6396408
ebin simply ebin my friend.

>black culture
>good
hahaha can't wait to mass produce this epic new meme

>>6396508
already beat you too it

>>6396508
>>6396521
Better than the white trash culture you hail from, Cletus.

>>6396532
You showed them, cuck!

>>6396532
please fuck my gf

>>6396564
he gets off on you fucking his gf

>>6396568
Why are white guys so obsessed with cuckolding and black men?

>her quote

>>6396521

What you fail to realize is that you suck twelve dicks every night every day

>>6396199
try to be more subtle next time

>>6396571

See my lucid explanation here: >>6396633

>>6396640
>rationalizing why you're a cuck

>>6396637
try to take my dick a little bit deeper next time

>>6396042
This is an excellent example of shit-posting. Great job, OP!

>>6396042
There are people who think birds have answers?

>>6396408
>concerned citizen of the world

>>6396321
>I got (an outstanding amount of debt because of) it. Do you?