/lit/ - Literature

>>7369542
These get worse and worse as time goes on.

>>7369542
A thread died for this you faggot

>>7369547
>>7369549
Give one convincing argument that prose wasn't a horrible idea. Pro tip: you can't.

>>7369574
Economy of meaning

>>7369574
You're using prose to construct your argument.

>>7369588
>Prose is good enough for 4chan arguments.

Well that certainly changed my mind about it's artistic potential.

>>7369547
that will imply that these threads were good.

>>7369598
Stop using prose, you've lost the right

>>7369574
>>7369598

>it seems this thread was a dumb idea and I have egg on my face
>hmm maybe I should assume the posture of a man who actually believes prose is a bad idea. What could possibly go wrong?

>>7369602
No it doesn't.

>>7369610
So if I think Linkin Park is shit that means I can't use it to torture Guantanamo prisoners?

But sure
if that's what you want

I will put

s in my writing
periodically

In the manner
of the poets
of an age that
sucked
prose's
dick
so
hard
that it even wanted it's poetry
to be prose

>>7369633
Your poetry skills are lacking
Boy, do you need a smacking

>>7369656
I am the first
to admit my failing,
with verse and with rhythm,
with meter and rhyme.
But please have the kindness,
you kinsmen of 4chan,
to note that I've never,
neutered you hamsters.

>>7369689
Consider learning English, friend.
If your poem were a chick, I wouldn't fuck it with somebody else's dick

>>7369836
>Consider learning English, friend.

Mistakes in my English!
Are there any worse terrors?
Please tell me good friend,
what were my errors?

>>7369840
Fuck you

>>7369574
Because getting a foreclosure sonnet would be really gay.

>>7369954
Anon is the dumbest man, thinking
that I wasn't just talking about art, trying
to say something non idiotic, ending
up showing everyone what no reading comprehension having fool he
is.

>>7369984
You are really, really gay.

>>7370001
Dawg, take a seat
What’s this guy standing in line for? He ain’t got money to eat!
Check this out yo yo
This guy cashed his whole check and bought one ho-ho
Fucking homo, little maggot
You can’t hack it
I'm gay, you're a faggot

but what really IS prose

What the fuck is prose?

>>7370028
Why are you here?

>>7370043
Splashing around in a puddle of spite formed from the endless shower of projected self hatred and confusion of those around me as I disdainfully await my inevitable erosion and subsequent consolidation with the unremitting self-loathing of existence itself.
Same as you.

>>7370077
Why are you on /lit/ if you don't even know what prose is.

>>7370077
I'm 19 years old.

I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.

I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.

I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.

I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.

Both my parents are alive and in good health.

I have no regrets.

I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.

I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.

I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.

I will live a good life at your expense.

>>7370087
>>7370095
>I am so mature I take everything on 4chan at face value
I have certainly been bested this day.

>>7370095
>a trader of witty repartee.
maybe you should have peppered your post with some o'dat.

>advanced newfaggotry detected

>>7370132
>advanced
<3 <3 <3

>>7370028
A better question would be what ISN'T prose.

>>7370158
Verse. Idiot.

>>7370162
Poetry. Idiot.

>>7370179
Why am I an idiot?

>>7370186
Because poetry does not necessitate verse.

>>7370195
Did I claim that it does?

>>7370205
You were unnecessarily specific.

>>7370216
"Verse isn't prose." That's fine.

>>7370216
No, I was necessarily specific. Prose poems are prose. What do you think verse means BTW?

>>7370218
>>7370220
fuk u

So can we all agree that prose was a mistake for literature?

How do I git gud at poetry? Also are things like rhyme and meter actually important?

>>7370237
No, bro. Just sho mo lo lo and the dough be yo(s).

>>7370237
Just write prose and hit the enter key every now and then.

>>7370237
>Also are things like rhyme and meter actually important?

Some people will tell you they aren't, but they are. I am not saying you have to use them (free verse) but they are important to know.

Consider music. It is important to know time and key, majors and minors etc. To write music. Some of the great musicians go beyong this and have weird timing or keys (one song is actually just a few minutes of silence) but you can bet before they did this they wrote songs in key and certain time.

Or painting. Picasso did some weird shit. But you know that his early work was very good traditional painting.


What I am saying is that you have to understand the techniques and form of an art before you can transcend it. Lots of people don't realize this, that is why free verse poetry nowadays is so shit compared to say Whitman.

It's like telling a kid to make music but not teaching him scales, or telling him to paint without teaching him stroke techniques (or whatever they do, I am not a painter).

>>7370277
Also, free verse isn't just not writing in meter. It's not writing in a specific meter. Meter can and should still be used, but it can be played with.
In the absence of meter, other rhetorical devices should be used.

>>7369542
>Jihad

>>7370301
>جهاد
لماذا تكتب "الجهاد"؟

>>7370095
and you'll have no legacy if you existed. Just a boring mary sue, with no interesting background.

Succes in life is for normies.

>>7370230

>>7370308
Inshallah.

>mfw prosefag plebs read a novel near me

>>7370237
Those things are wayyy too pre-post-structuralist.

>>7370419
>mfw poetryfags near me don't exist because poetry is irrelevant

>>7370430
Implying that being relevant in today's literary landscape would be a good thing,

Stupid pigposter

>posey

>>7370434
You're right, sorry, what I meant was *defunct.

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