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In 2020 I'm going to memorize one poem every week. What poems should I add to my list?

>> No.14435486

>>14435485
Beowulf

>> No.14435491

>>14435485
the raven
its so fun to recite. plus you could impress goth girls probably

>> No.14435495

>>14435485
Psalms

>> No.14435496

there once was a man from Nantucket

>> No.14435501

I assume you are all monolingual Anglos?

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14435503

>>14435496
Nat Nat the Nantucket cat :3
(pic is my sweatshirt that says Nantucket)

>> No.14435516

>>14435503
nigger you look like griffith. stop being a faggot tho

>> No.14435521

>>14435516
But anon I’m a girl
Why do I look like Griffith ?

>> No.14435528

>>14435503
this is a really pathetic post.

>> No.14435531

>>14435528
Shut up faggot I’m just looking for attention

>> No.14435534

>>14435485
The Iliad

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14435549

>>14435521

>> No.14435551

>>14435503
I appreciate the milk crate bookshelves

>> No.14435556

>>14435549
Oh I don’t read much manga or watch much anime so I thought you meant Griffiths (the textbook author) & I was offended and interested
>>14435551
That’s how it goes when you’re stuck in a college dorm anon

>> No.14435561

>>14435485
The Early Purges by Seamus Heaney
Schoolgirls in Pantyhose by Charles Bukowski

>> No.14435838

>>14435485
10 Little Niggers

>> No.14435877

I was gonna say TS Elliot's The Wasteland, as a troll. But seriously some of Tolkien's would be good.

>> No.14435878

>>14435485
The Wasteland

>> No.14435890

>>14435485
Hávamál

>> No.14435943

>>14435503
post timestamp

>> No.14436587

>Dickinson - 'Hope' is the thing with feathers
>Shelley - Ozymandias
>Shakespeare - Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow (excerpt from Macbeth)
>Shakespeare - To be or not to be (excerpt from Hamlet)
>Schiller - Ode an die Freude (the part that's in Beethoven's Ninth)
>Chaucer - Prologue to Canterbury Tales (first 18 lines)
>Keats - On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
>Pope - Homer's Iliad (first 8 lines)
>Owen - Dulce et Decorum Est
>Tennyson - In Memoriam AHH (canto 27)
>Poe - The Raven (at least everything up to and including the first 'Nevermore')
Here are some reasonably short ones which you probably already have a head start on that will make you look extremely cultured to normen and are genuinely great

>> No.14436593

>>14435485
The Cantos of Ezra Pound

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>>14435485
on the cretaion of niggers - lovecraft

>> No.14436653

>>14435561
>Schoolgirls in Pantyhose by Charles Bukowski
More dirty poems?

>> No.14437414

>>14435485
Good luck anon. Here's some short ones.
>On His Blindness
>'Death, be not proud...'
>Love's Philosophy
>Crossing the Bar
>In an Artist's Studio
>'How clear, how lovely bright...'
>'in time of daffodils(who know...'
>Wandering Aengus
>Born Yesterday

>> No.14437501

>>14435485
Jenny kissed me for the start as a warm up.

>> No.14437555

>>14435485
Why don't you spend 2020 trying to memorize the Quran instead? I'm not joking here; you'd be able to claim the title of Hafiz - guardian - in Arabic.
> but i'm not mussslim, Anon
That'd be even funnier. Imagine strutting around demanding that mozzies call you Hafiz whilst using their own doctrine to refute their religion?

>> No.14437796

>>14437555
nice trips. how long is the quran?

>> No.14437804

memorizing poems is pseud tier and doesn't mean you enjoy them necessarily
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQKRAJTgEuo

>> No.14438060

>>14437796
>>14437501
In Arabic or Enligsh though? I’ll unironically do it

>>14437796
It’s shortest from all the major holy texts and Muslim boys do this all the time

>> No.14439023

The Faerie Queene
The Aeneid (in Latin obviously)

>> No.14439549

>>14437804
>memorizing poems is pseud tier
Yeah, but it's fun

>> No.14441184

>>14437555
>hafiz meaning guardian in arabic
you forgot the part where it also means the memorizer. in muslim society, you're treated almost as royalty. almost similar to burgers and being veterans.
t. ex-moose who is a hafiz.

>> No.14441188

>>14435521
Ur a man LARPing. You will never pass

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14441197

>>14435501
Yes.

>> No.14441411

>>14435501
Got any Spanish recommendations?

>> No.14441419

>>14435485
The Man from Nantucket

>> No.14441464

>>14441411
Lorca is a good way to start, specially his Romancero. All the generación del 27, even though they are shit are easily to remember. After that you can go to better shit like Quevedo or myself.