/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13644996]

I'm depressed anons. Post some poetry/music that will help me wallow in my despair. I want something that will make me cry. Accompanying artwork is always nice.

[Anonymous No.13645003]

>>13644996
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlr90NLDp-0

[Anonymous No.13645035]

>>13644996
https://youtu.be/QeKaLADxNQg

the wind brings enough
of fallen leaves
to make a fire

--Ryokan

[Anonymous No.13645042]

>>13645035
Nice poem. What does it mean?

[Anonymous No.13645066]

>>13644996
https://youtu.be/PoPL7BExSQU

[Anonymous No.13645083]

>>13645042
It's probably just an observation, but no doubt can be read metaphorically. Maybe it can be interpreted that severe conditions can shake loose debris that we can make useful (warm our selves/spirit, for example)

[Anonymous No.13645091]

>>13644996

Emily Brontë


That wind I used to hear it swelling
With joy divinely deep -
You might have seen my hot tears welling
But rapture made me weep.

I used to love on winter nights
To lie and dream alone
Of all the hopes and real delights
My early years had known.

And oh, above the rest of those
That coming time should bear,
Like heaven's own glorious stars they rose
Still beaming bright and fair.

[Anonymous No.13645156]

https://youtu.be/sGXLRSA_Qoo

[Anonymous No.13645190]

>>13644996

[Anonymous No.13645248]

Whenever it's early twilight
I watch 'til a star breaks through
Funny, it's not a star I see
It's always you
Whenever I roam through roses
And lately I often do
Funny, it's not a rose I touch
It's always you
If a breeze caresses me
It's really you strolling by
If I hear a melody
It's merely the way you sigh
Wherever you are, you're near me
You dare me to be untrue
Funny, each time I fall in love
It's always you
If a breeze caresses me
It's really you strolling by
If I hear a melody
It's merely the way you sigh
Wherever you are, you're near me
You dare me to be untrue
Funny, each time I fall in love
It's always you

[Anonymous No.13645274]

How long these hours take to pass
As long as a whole procession

Yet you'll mourn the time you mourned,
For it will be gone too soon,
like all time past:
too fast, too long ago

[Anonymous No.13645626]

Try some Georg Trakl

[Anonymous No.13645741]

>>13644996
"For you dear Anon"

There is nothing left today
But steel and fire and stone
Though all we knew depart
The old commandments stand

"In courage kept your heart
In strength lift up your head"

And although I don't speak much, anymore
your voice has sparked flint
From my mortal tongue
Flamed with arid, lips of woe

"Hating yourself is powerful
like drinking from a cool well
Beware, for you don't know yet
That water is poisoned, 'tis a sure bet
A hundred times you mimic the motion
and still you are bound to forget"

But despite his plight
His public, perhaps,
Wont phantom the though
that beyond our great wall
Something lies out of sight
Divine in nature, no matter how small,

Now I sit in the center of a burning house
And watch it char away
I'm protected, from the flames that catch
But they burn me all the same.

- with love, by anon

[Anonymous No.13646205]

carlo michelstaedter actually has a great part on forcing a specific “emption” (specifically in sorrow) and it inherently missing the goal in the early rhetoric part of his book, i believe.
Check it out before your next self wallowing.

[Anonymous No.13646240]

>>13646205
Excerpt it.

[Anonymous No.13646314]

>>13646240
if thread is up in 8 hours i will see if i can find it in my copy.

[Anonymous No.13647270]

Bump

[Anonymous No.13647729]

>>13646240
>>13646314
im sorry. I forgot I have it in german.
The position of this specific page is the second part: I The Rhetoric a page or so before “a historical example”; though, if you won’t read it all, read at minimum the entire I Rhetoric part, it is the best in the book.

[Anonymous No.13647783]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzdDQfbS3mA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKgxYe4u0Eo

[Anonymous No.13647818]

La sottise, l'erreur, le péché, la lésine,
Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps,
Et nous alimentons nos aimables remords,
Comme les mendiants nourrissent leur vermine.
Nos péchés sont têtus, nos repentirs sont lâches;
Nous nous faisons payer grassement nos aveux,
Et nous rentrons gaiement dans le chemin bourbeux,
Croyant par de vils pleurs laver toutes nos taches.
Sur l'oreiller du mal c'est Satan Trismégiste
Qui berce longuement notre esprit enchanté,
Et le riche métal de notre volonté
Est tout vaporisé par ce savant chimiste.
C'est le Diable qui tient les fils qui nous remuent!
Aux objets répugnants nous trouvons des appas;
Chaque jour vers l'Enfer nous descendons d'un pas,
Sans horreur, à travers des ténèbres qui puent.
Ainsi qu'un débauché pauvre qui baise et mange
Le sein martyrisé d'une antique catin,
Nous volons au passage un plaisir clandestin
Que nous pressons bien fort comme une vieille orange.
Serré, fourmillant, comme un million d'helminthes,
Dans nos cerveaux ribote un peuple de Démons,
Et, quand nous respirons, la Mort dans nos poumons
Descend, fleuve invisible, avec de sourdes plaintes.
Si le viol, le poison, le poignard, l'incendie,
N'ont pas encor brodé de leurs plaisants dessins
Le canevas banal de nos piteux destins,
C'est que notre âme, hélas! n'est pas assez hardie.
Mais parmi les chacals, les panthères, les lices,
Les singes, les scorpions, les vautours, les serpents,
Les monstres glapissants, hurlants, grognants, rampants,
Dans la ménagerie infâme de nos vices,
II en est un plus laid, plus méchant, plus immonde!
Quoiqu'il ne pousse ni grands gestes ni grands cris,
Il ferait volontiers de la terre un débris
Et dans un bâillement avalerait le monde;
C'est l'Ennui! L'oeil chargé d'un pleur involontaire,
II rêve d'échafauds en fumant son houka.
Tu le connais, lecteur, ce monstre délicat,
— Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!

>>13645248
<3 Chet

[Anonymous No.13647822]

>>13647818
Why was Baudelaire so based bros?

[Anonymous No.13647845]

Bump

[Anonymous No.13647885]

>>13647845
retard

[Anonymous No.13648019]

Here, this is about loss of purpose https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qfKKBDFCiIA
This is about finding out that you're wrong when it's too late

[Anonymous No.13648025]

>>13648019
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xSZBIs0gs0E

[Anonymous No.13648038]

You have the right to feel like shit.

[Anonymous No.13648045]

>>13648038
yeah, if you aren't depressed you simply aren't paying enough attention

[Anonymous No.13648068]

>>13648019
This one is about the bitter sweetness of reconciliation with an ex. Seeing how lifes turns and twists while intense when experienced, melancholicaly contains within itself it´s own genesis. As if time still moves at two directions simultaneously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGwZ7MNtBFU

[Anonymous No.13648069]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH-8byW9Io4

[Anonymous No.13648278]

>>13648068
she's ugly and her voice is ugly

[Anonymous No.13648283]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l4_6eQm7RTQ about a cute little millennial girl growing up in the 90s, the sad part is that she never married

[Anonymous No.13648304]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7N2wssse14

[Anonymous No.13648332]

>>13648304
I skimmed the post and missed the part about "wallowing in despair". Good luck with that fren

[Anonymous No.13648496]

>>13647729
I don't speak German, but thanks anyways.

[Anonymous No.13648549]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5jLJgE7g0Q&t=56m44s

Today was my birthday and I can't feel the difference.

[Anonymous No.13648583]

>>13644996
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iib3jtX7O-Y
I'll share some more depressive black metal if you want but Drudkh is my favourite for when I'm in your mood.

[Anonymous No.13648600]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7zHZrcHdxg
:^)

[Anonymous No.13649401]

>>13648496
im certain you can find it even online in english.
give it a read. it’s simple yet good. (dude was 23 when he wrote it and the day he finished it killed himself)

[Anonymous No.13649496]

Get into Coil.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=k0x77EdoXhw