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/lit/, how does one "poetry"?

I have no idea how you're meant to experience or appreciate any at all. Like do you only read it once? Read over? Strictly have to keep a certain meter? Just read it exactly like prose? I don't know at all!

Another question, how does Robert Burns stack up in the "world rankings" of poetry?

Feel free to post your own favourites ITT & maybe say why you are so fond of them.

>> No.1066210

Pay attention to grammar/punctuation, it's how the poet controls rhythm. Don't pause at the end of the line if the punctuation doesn't call for it.

Read every poem at least three times. And one of those times should be out loud.

>> No.1066218

>>1066210
>Read every poem at least three times. And one of those times should be out loud
So it is more of a relation of Drama than Prose really?

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1066233

Why bother? Poetry was made redundant by Song (music).

Yes, deal with it.

>> No.1066239

>>1066233

Um, song came before poetry.

>> No.1066244

>>1066239
Popular song then.

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1066247

why'd you leave battles, bro. that was a fuck up. you think you're better than them?

my face when they release their best album yet after you leave

>> No.1066269

read it like you would read anything
read it over and over if you feel that you like the words and subject and pictures in your head.
see if it rhymes, does it?
read it and look for rhythm

check this out:
if i was here and you were there
i'd wait for wind to blow my hair
and you could feel me; something long
without me extending my dong

look for the beat there, say it by tapping your hand out

with. out. me. ex.tend.ing. my. dong.

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1066282

>>1066269
I'm a Free-Jazz man.

I fucking detest poetry & music that must rhyme every line.

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1066286

Also no one's talked about Rabbie Burns yet!!!

>> No.1066287

>>1066282
you didn't answer my question, you faggot.

>> No.1066300

Just read it over, outloud or in your head, until you get the flow.

Or if you don't after a few times, there is no flow and the poem sucks.

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1066309

I'm gonna download some Burns after I have a fap to the Lucette chapter in Ada.

Anything else you think I should put on my e-reader?

>> No.1066313

answer to OP: if you find rhyming poetry with a set beat "boring" or "uninteresting" you may find life a hard thing to carry on with

>> No.1066314

Find poets that you enjoy. They aren't the same for everybody. I personally can't stand the hacks that write postmodern poems.

>> No.1066322

Poet that taught me how to appreciate poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson

Other poets I like (excluding epic legends like Homer and Dante): Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Tagore

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1066326

>>1066313
>answer to OP: if you find rhyming poetry with a set beat "boring" or "uninteresting" you may find life a hard thing to carry on with
Well to use the Jazz example - I find Jazz without a beat more emotionally stirring than the "4 on the floor".

Could you elaborate a tad more?

>> No.1066329

Don't bother OP. Poetry is a bunch of nonsense people read to feel smart.

>I'm a Free-Jazz man.

oh wait nvm you'll love it OP. Just keep reading.

>> No.1066348

>>1066326
alright, alright sorry to be a dick, BUT i see what you mean, yes, yes the Jazz feeling is an acquired one which explores the solos and notes that can be used and scaled within a jazz-key (wich is amazingly forgiving to the wandering saxist)

go read:
Walt Whitman
e.e. Cummings
gee i dunno....
I'm a pretty big Yeats fan myself; Wild Swans At Coole, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, the list could go on

>> No.1066351

prufrock is the only poem ever worth reading

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1066356

>>1066348
>the list could go on
>mfw
I'll be sure to check out Cummings due to his popularity/acclaim.

>> No.1066358

poetry is sort of my arch nemesis. Kind of ironic since my focus is on Renaissance drama, but blank verse is a bit easier to grasp. However, here's a few pointers.
>>1066269

Has a lot of good points.

Also, following/deviating from accepted forms can be important at times. Shakes does it a lot in his sonnets, and there's all sorts of reasons why.

The content of poems can be all over the board too... there's serious shit and then pure comedy like Pope or Gay.

>> No.1066367

>>1066356
Oh & Yeats too...