/lit/ - Literature

There is no good poetry.

>>866332

jealous bitch

You haven't seen my livejournal yet.

>>866426
lold

>>866426
I lol'd hard

10/10

Body of woman, white hills, white thighs,

you look the world in your attitude of surrender.

My savage peasant body digs in you

and makes the son leap from the depths of the earth.
I was just like a tunnel. Birds fled from me

and night swamped me with its crushing invasion.

To survive myself I forged as a weapon,

like an arrow in my bow, like a stone in my sling.
But the hour of vengeance, and I love you.

Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk.

Oh the goblets of the breast! Oh the eyes of absence!

Ah the roses of the pubis! Oh your voice, slow and sad!
Body of my woman, persist in your grace.

My thirst, my desire without limit, my way undecided!

Dark beds where the eternal thirst continues,

and weariness follows, and the infinite ache.

You are ought to read them in spanish.

As a russian tier image said, reading translated poems is like taste food with your feet.

>>866442

oye gringo maricon aqui

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>>866467

Cuerpo de mujer, blancas colinas, muslos blancos,

te pareces al mundo en tu actitud de entrega.

Mi cuerpo de labriego salvaje te socava

y hace saltar el hijo del fondo de la tierra.
Fui solo como un túnel. De mí huían los pájaros

y en mí la noche entraba su invasión poderosa.

Para sobrevivirme te forjé como un arma,

como una flecha en mi arco, como una piedra en mi honda.
Pero cae la hora de la venganza, y te amo.

Cuerpo de piel, de musgo, de leche ávida y firme.

Ah los vasos del pecho! Ah los ojos de ausencia!

Ah las rosas del pubis! Ah tu voz lenta y triste!
Cuerpo de mujer mía, persistirá en tu gracia.

Mi sed, mi ansia sin limite, mi camino indeciso!

Oscuros cauces donde la sed eterna sigue,

y la fatiga sigue, y el dolor infinito.

>>866442

Aprendo castellano solo para leer Neruda en su lengua nativa o.o

you must mean rimbaud

PABLO NERUDAAAAAAAAA

So fucking awesome

Why do poetry threads never seem to survive?

because the /b/ trolls love harry potter and twilight but reject anything that is actual literature and not just commercialized preteen targeted CRAP

RAGIN

i will forever be thankful to my senior ib teacher who introduced me to him
god bless you, mr. d

>>866562

they don't really, it's just that you're pretentious and awful

The first poem I read from him was Fábula de la Sirena y los borrachos.

All those men were there inside,
when she came in totally naked.
They had been drinking: they began to spit.
Newly come from the river, she knew nothing.
She was a mermaid who had lost her way.
The insults flowed down her gleaming flesh.
Obscenities drowned her golden breasts.
Not knowing tears, she did not weep tears.
Not knowing clothes, she did not have clothes.
They blackened her with burnt corks and cigarette stubs,
and rolled around laughing on the tavern floor.
She did not speak because she had no speech.
Her eyes were the colour of distant love,
her twin arms were made of white topaz.
Her lips moved, silent, in a coral light,
and suddenly she went out by that door.
Entering the river she was cleaned,
shining like a white stone in the rain,
and without looking back she swam again
swam towards emptiness, swam towards death.

He kinda looks like a penguin

Single greatest work of Romantic poetry? Really?

I like Neruda but it's not the best poetry ever written. It's all "Her breasts are mountains and the daffodils flutter in the wind - Ah! The wonder of love how I miss you" bla bla bla. It's great right after a breakup.

>>866597
Maybe for the 20th century. i honestly think this guy set the standards for modern poetry.

Murakami set the standard for modern prose, imo.

It´s also sad to note that they both didn´t write in English. I would interpret this as a result of preteens copulating like mad oysters over Twilight and Percy Jackson.

>>866603
>Murakami set the standard for modern prose, imo.

>>866572

Translation : youre a big meany

>>866603
I support this motion.

>>866634
notion....

>>866603
>i honestly think this guy set the standards for modern poetry.
Do you mean modern like "modernism" or modern like "today?" Either way you're wrong, but to tell you why you're wrong I have to know what you were trying to say.

>>866628
This might be a troll, but I´ll ask anyway, who do you think set it then, if any?

>>866664
Modernism. Do tell why I´m wrong

>>866630

Well, no, not really. See, you lack the wits to be incisive and hence cruel, and you're an anonymous turd besides: the upshot of that is that you literally can't be mean, you don't have the right tools. No, it's that you're fucking affected and dull and banal as anything, a shitty bot programmed to take in ambient nerd turd opinion and crap out pathetic flaccid barbs that impress no one. You are literally fucking superfluous. There is no reason for you to live or post. You're like a human hemorrhoid and I'm the fucking lance.

>>866660
No. I meant motion.

>>866677

whoa bro take a chill pill

>>866677

>>866660
No, it's "motion."

"I support this motion" is a phrase used in parliamentary-style meetings. One member will propose a motion of some sort, and another member must support that motion before it can proceed further.

>>866677

>ambient nerd turd opinion

>>866695
>>866695

Oh, I see. Thanks for clearing that up.

>>866667
I'd be very surprised if any of today's top authors would list Murakami among their influences.

>>866720
That´s because most of modern authors are shit. For avid readers, Murakami´s pretty much the best of modern out there.

>>866720
>>866707

like i give a shit about who influenced the human stain who wrote Twilight

>>866736
stop using ` as an apostrophe. the apostrophe is located to the right of the semicolon and the left of the enter key on a QWERTY keyboard. ' is an apostrophe, not `.

>>866672
One major reason is that he was writing in Spanish, and modernism was primarily an English and French language movement. Another major reason was that his major work (Veinte poemas) was written at the tail end of the modernist movement.

>>866736
you poor thing

>>866756
Try "not an American keyboard."

>>866736
No, for you and your weaboo circle of friends, Murakami is the best author alive. To the reading world at large, Murakami is a no-one who writes the same story into every book.

>>866736
Michael Chabon.

>>866765

> 1924
> tail-end of the modernist movement

>>866765
And how about the "today" kind?

>>866783
Yeah, pretty much. Modernism (especially in poetry) was dead by about 1930 and morphed into avant-garde during the next few decades.

>>866785
He didn't set the standard for today's poetry because he wrote nearly 90 years ago, not today.

He also wrote about and had a connection with nature that no poets writing today can get even close to, except maybe Merwin. Merwin is old enough to die any day now, so he probably doesn't really count.

>>866823
But he's awesome either way :D

>>866779
Wait, so /lit/ doesn't like Murakami? D:

>>866829
Sure, I like him. I just think OP's comment that Neruda is the best poet ever needs to be revised.

>>866832

Lots of people here like him, but he's just an okay author with some neat things he does in almost every single thing he writes

>>866832

Of course not. It's 4chan, which means it's casually racist, and /lit/, which means it's full of dumb dorks trying not to look like nerds at all costs, which means NOTHING from Japan EVER. No, it's pretty much verboten.

>>866832
No, /lit/ usually doesn't like Murakami. He writes the same book every time: some dude is depressed, is missing his cat, and likes black coffee. Hijinks. lolsorandum occurrences.

>>866838

>NOTHING from Japan EVER

I've seen lots of threads on here about Mishima, Murakami (both of them), Akutagawa, and Kobo Abe

>>866845
Agreed. There are way more Japanese writers than just Murakami, which /lit/ seems not to realize most of the time. I've made several general Japanese lit threads and they always seemed to go over well.

>>866862
I only know of Murakami and Mishima. Although I've never read any from Mishima cause it's extremely hard to find where I live. It's sad really, I'd really wanna read Confessions of a Mask >:

>>867035
Where do you live? Can't you order off of Amazon or something though?