/lit/ - Literature

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1681211]

Interpretations thread
Offer up an interpretation of your own of something you've read. Argue to whatever extent you want, it doesn't matter so long as it gets people's imaginations going.

Patrick Kavanagh poem 'Epic' is ultimately self defeating for the self-contained value he professes in the poem, that "Gods make their own importance", (which in the context of the poem in one sense amounts to a renewal of nationalist pride and self-definition), because the manner in which he emphasizes the importance of such self-definition is only possible through the affirmation of others, the "Munich bother" causes him to lose faith in the relevance of the affairs of his countrymen but it is just as important an aspect in his ability to set those very affairs apart. He cannot even convey this without drawing on the mythology of another, "Homer's ghost", and in a way this has been one of Ireland's lingering problematics in a postcolonial state - the problem of self-definition. I do not think Kavanagh offers us a solution in his poem. In fact I think he serves merely to affirm such a reliance on the Other.

[Anonymous No.1681217]

Nobody wants to hear this shit.

Go fuck yourself and die.

[Anonymous No.1681224]

Why don't you just buy a full-length mirror if you want to watch yourself jack off?

Or if you want others to see you jack off, just get a webcam.

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1681230]

with "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" Wilde is actually proposing that every man is a criminal and that all beings at one point or another face the adoption of the criminal mindset, the central stanza being "Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!", a series of lines he uses to differentiate between the failed adoption (the coward) and the willing adoption (the brave man)

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1681235]

>>1681230
i should re-do this, it came out funny

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1681242]

with "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" Wilde is actually proposing that every man is a criminal and that all beings at one point or another face the adoption of the criminal mindset, the central stanza being:

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"

A series of lines he uses to differentiate between the failed adoption (the coward) and the willing adoptive parent (the brave man)

[Anonymous No.1681247]

>>1681235

Take your time. Your posting has gone to shit recently.

[Anonymous No.1681252]

are you feeling nostalgic for your sophomore year of college or what?

[Anonymous No.1681253]

>>1681230
>>1681242

This is like watching Patrick Bateman fix his hair in the mirror while he fucks two prostitutes. Especially the part where you deleted & reformatted your post so your cock would look bigger.

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1681261]

>>1681253
i don't really see how it's like that at all...

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1681288]

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[Anonymous No.1681296]

This thread is cracking me up, so far.

It shows pretty clearly that tripfags have this overbearing pressure to "prove" themselves, whereas Anon just doesn't give a fuck to break his back trying to impress the other losers who come here.

[☿ !Rrxa7zePwI No.1681301]

no

[Anonymous No.1681315]

>Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1681321]

>>1681296
anons just arent smart and so they use excuses like this when it comes to being smart and they ant do it

[Anonymous No.1681342]

>>1681321
Spoken like a die-hard tripfag.

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1681345]

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[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1681362]

bumping

[Anonymous No.1681368]

Bumping.

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1681380]

Bump again

[Anonymous No.1681385]

Double bump.