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10465300 No.10465300 [Reply] [Original]

How do I get into poetry? I'd rather something that's not corny and actually rhymes, I'll have none of that spoken word shit.

>> No.10465315

sart with the gregs

>> No.10465330

English romantics. Search 'em up and take your pic. And if you really want to understand all their references to mythology, read Ovid's Metamorphoses, preferably Mandelbaum translation

>> No.10465587

>>10465315

greeks?

>> No.10466137

>>10465300
>How do I get into poetry?
Easil-
>I'd rather something that's not corny and actually rhymes
You don't. You're clearly an infant.

>> No.10466189

>>10465300
rhyming is overrated anon, but it's all good and depends on your taste really.

https://fleursdumal.org/1857-table-of-contents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6q9pTPKq2A

>> No.10466856

>>10465300
How do you write good poetry? Most of it seems like baseless statements.

I am a man
posting on 4chan
does moot still own it?
I guess he doesn't
oh well

Is it really that simple?

>> No.10466871

>>10466137

I think a large percentage of modern poetry is corny. I don't recall ever reading poetry before the 1900s and thinking they were corny.

But I do love my rhyming I'm afraid.

>> No.10466891

>>10465300
>actually rhymes
you sure are smug about something you just admitted you don't understand

>> No.10468109

>>10466856
>>10465300
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/32568/hymn-to-life

read this brainlet kids

>> No.10468116

>>10466871
>But I do love my rhyming I'm afraid.
Have you tried hip hop?

>> No.10468718

burmps

>> No.10468813

Get an anthology and find what you like

>> No.10469574

What have I to say to you
When we shall meet?
Yet—
I lie here thinking of you.

The stain of love
Is upon the world.
Yellow, yellow, yellow,
It eats into the leaves,
Smears with saffron
The horned branches that lean
Heavily
Against a smooth purple sky.

There is no light—
Only a honey-thick stain
That drips from leaf to leaf
And limb to limb
Spoiling the colours
Of the whole world.

I am alone.
The weight of love
Has buoyed me up
Till my head
Knocks against the sky.

See me!
My hair is dripping with nectar—
Starlings carry it
On their black wings.
See, at last
My arms and my hands
Are lying idle.

How can I tell
If I shall ever love you again
As I do now?

>> No.10470075

>>10465300
Listen to this, it has rhymes and non rhymes lines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAO3QTU4PzY

>> No.10470551

dumps

>> No.10470937

>>10465330
Any other books to help with mythological references? I really like the English romantics and want to understand the poetry better.

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10470946

>>10466189
>>10466856
>>10468116
This is how it's done

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10471040

>not corny
>rhymes

>> No.10471050

READ
KIPLING

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10471105

>>10465300
>rhyme

>> No.10471125

>>10471040
>>10471105
see this>>10470946