/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16832429]

I want to get into poetry, but I don't understand half the words and the meaning being conveyed.
Words could be taken of with a dictionary, but what do I do about incomprehension?

[Anonymous No.16832466]

>>16832429
Read more and you'll learn more words naturally, especially older texts such as from the Victorian era which will push you vocabulary.

Also for understanding metre and such from poetry itself, then buy a book about poetry, all those different metres and basics, and crank into all the great iambic pentameter English poets. That includes Shakespeare, Keats, Kipling and the likes. Iambic Pentameter is the starting metre par excellence for poetry but is also very great, as long as you're doing this in English and not another language. Anyhow you'll eventually branch out larger as you flick through that poetry book and learn about the many different metres, prosody's and language differences (remember, poetry can't be translated, only transmuted; there's no such thing as translucence in a translation).

As for iambic pentameter, the iamb is the type of foot; the word itself "iamb" is an iamb, which is essentially one stressed, and then one unstressed part. Or one long syllable and one short, depending on various things. But it's universally the strong, and then the weak in some form. Other feet are comprised of more stresses before unstressed or the other way around. It's "pentameter" because there are five of this type of foot in a line.

But remember, this is just a blueprint, poets such as Shakespeare regularly change the strict line for a particular word; or for a siloliquoy sometimes go into a different metre.

Hope this helps. Also for some reason this thread appeared as archived when I tried to post a few seconds ago.

[Anonymous No.16832504]

version without noise ring if it triggers your autism like me

(both are fake)

[Anonymous No.16832532]

>>16832429
BBRRRRRRRRRRRRBBBHBBBB BOOOOOOOOOBAAAAAAAAAA AWOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.16832538]

BOOBA

[Anonymous No.16832568]

>>16832466
what a helpful post, thank you anon, although I didn't completely understand your third paragraph. I guess I need to start from the very the basics.

>buy a book about poetry, all those different metres and basics, and crank into all the great iambic pentameter English poets
Do you have any specific recommendation in mind?

Also,
>especially older texts such as from the Victorian era which will push you vocabulary.
I'm curious, is there a reason for this- reading older texts better improving vocabulary as opposed to modern texts?

[Anonymous No.16832579]

>>16832429
sorry OP I can't read your post my eyes are glued to BOOBA

[Anonymous No.16832584]

I like poetry for the aesthetic pictures and wording it gives. I don't expect it to convoy some deep philosophical message.
Also how can you not understand a word if you're reading in mother tongue?

[Anonymous No.16832590]

>>16832429
God damn I wanna clap this whore's cheeks so badly leave her wanting more of my med cock

[Anonymous No.16832703]

>>16832590
How many horses do you own turkish boi?

[Anonymous No.16832773]

>>16832429

God she is cute.
Imagine lazily reading your favourite book next to her under a heavy blanket in the middle of winter.

[Anonymous No.16833290]

>>16832773
>>16832590
>>16832579
>>16832538
>>16832532
slaves of brain chemicals

[Anonymous No.16833319]

>>16833290
>slaves of brain chemicals
Everything you value is brain chemicals, delusional value seeking idiot

[Anonymous No.16833479]

I've busted to this before. what's her ig again?

[Anonymous No.16833488]

>>16833479
thesirenmika

[Anonymous No.16833505]

>>16832773
or imagine motorboating those titties

[OP No.16833527]

why is almost everyone ignoring my question

[Anonymous No.16833534]

>>16833527
what question?
was it about those gazongas?

[OP No.16833537]

>>16832584
It's not my mother tongue.

[Anonymous No.16833538]

>>16833505
or imagine the gore and disease hidden by a thin layer of semi translucent skin. Imagine the hair and filth oozing out of her nose and ears perpetually.

[Anonymous No.16833550]

>>16832532
you just know

[Anonymous No.16833555]

>>16832532
I want to get into her poetry if you fellers catch my meaning.

[Anonymous No.16833581]

>>16833527
ur fault for posting the best bahongas known to man

[Anonymous No.16833589]

>>16833581
theyre ok

[Anonymous No.16833592]

>>16833290
> describes a comfy scene where a man and a woman enjoy literature and intimacy.
> "slave to brain-chemicals!!"

You will never know happiness.

[Anonymous No.16833604]

>>16833488
deleted apparently. can't believe that I'm saying this but thank god reddit exists

[Anonymous No.16833654]

you're better than this /lit/

[Anonymous No.16833659]

>>16833654
No were not

[Anonymous No.16833668]

>>16833654
The OP pic is of tits though, not a behind.

[Anonymous No.16833677]

>>16833668
couldn't find the boob one

[Anonymous No.16833687]

>>16833677
thats ok, ill use an ass pic for my next OP

[Anonymous No.16833689]

>>16833654

We have never been, and never will be, better than that.

[Anonymous No.16833694]

>>16833677
you're a boob

[Anonymous No.16833699]

>>16833687

What is the appeal here?

[Anonymous No.16833730]

>>16833699
absolutely none imo

[Anonymous No.16833746]

>>16833699
To put your nose in her sphincter and sniff for gas. It's a very natural desire

[Anonymous No.16833757]

>>16832504
thanks dude, I hate nose rings so much

[Anonymous No.16833759]

>>16833319
how many times has this image been posted and you still don't get it

[Anonymous No.16833772]

>>16832429
I'll answer your question when you stop posting these jezebels

[Anonymous No.16833922]

>>16832429
the picture you have chosen for this thread wounds me deeply, OP.

[Anonymous No.16834002]

>>16833290
faggot

[Anonymous No.16834009]

>>16833604
that fucking waist tho

[Anonymous No.16834278]

>>16832532
Do elephants actually feel attraction to women or are they like this with everyone

[Anonymous No.16834279]

>>16834278
dunno

[Anonymous No.16834284]

>>16833699
Cushion for your pushin'

[Anonymous No.16834421]

>>16833687
Who?

[Anonymous No.16834443]

girl is uggo as fuck irl. thats her only good pic

[Anonymous No.16834449]

>>16834421
some girl some guy from /s/ knows IRL: https://archived.moe/s/thread/19791665/#19813079

[Anonymous No.16834518]

>>16834443

Well you've got shit taste, son.

[Anonymous No.16834535]

>>16834518
>Ramona Flowers
KILL

[Anonymous No.16834564]

>>16834535

True, Knives Chau > Ramona

[Anonymous No.16834794]

>>16834518
holy moly... those are some bazookas. some motherfuckin bahongas. imagine creamin' on those knockers. hoh fuck

[Anonymous No.16834900]

>>16832429
Fuck off nog

[Anonymous No.16835182]

>>16832429
Reminder that no coomer will ever make it

[Anonymous No.16835269]

>>16832429
i need to see those breasts

[Anonymous No.16835356]

>>16835269

[Anonymous No.16835362]

test

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16835649]

>>16835356
Thanks

[Anonymous No.16835710]

>>16835182
Reminder that you’re a faggot

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16835718]

>>16835710
Ironic meme. The lavender pinhead was originally mocking blowjack posters

[Anonymous No.16835812]

>>16834518
No hips, fat, ugly face. Okay

[Anonymous No.16835850]

>>16835710
4chan has come full circle from being on the nofap vanguard to now deeming it reddit

[Anonymous No.16835858]

>>16832568
>what a helpful post, thank you anon, although I didn't completely understand your third paragraph. I guess I need to start from the very the basics.
Indeed, but when you "get" it it's really fun and worthwhile.

>Do you have any specific recommendation in mind?
Try "The Poetry Handbook", but that's just one of many.

>I'm curious, is there a reason for this- reading older texts better improving vocabulary as opposed to modern texts?
Well for one, you're going to be more familiar with modern vocabulary, and then secondly, there's no doubt that within our modern world the West has been decaying in its overall education (along with everything else that has decayed) and that includes vocabulary, so especially reading something from the Victorian era, which has a lot of very unique differences, and many great adjectives, while still being quite close, it will definitely help if you push through it. I recommend Carlyle's Hero-Worship lectures and then his Sartor Resartus (try to get the Oxford's World Classics edition because for a first time you're likely going to need footnotes for all the references). These two books are also literary classics anyway.

[Anonymous No.16835880]

>>16832429
Start with the Greeks.

[Anonymous No.16836256]

>>16835718
Blah blah shut up

[Anonymous No.16836565]

>>16835812

How can you be so fucking wrong?

[Anonymous No.16836586]

>>16832429
Just read it, learn the words you don't know yet, read it again, and whatever you think about the poetry will be your interpretation.

[Anonymous No.16836603]

>>16832429
BOOBA
MILKY MILKY ME WANT NOW
BOOBA
BOOBA
MILKY MILKY ME WANT NOW
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[Anonymous No.16836618]

>>16834518
why do women ruin themselves with piercings and tattoos

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16836634]

>>16836618
Why do men?

[Anonymous No.16836637]

>>16832429
I get banned within 10 minutes for having non lit related images on threads and this shit is up for 11 hrs? Fuck jannies.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16836646]

>>16836637
What did you post?

[Anonymous No.16836656]

>>16836637
The way they handle "off-topic" content is almost completely arbitrary. I say all kinds of bullshit on this board and nothing happens, but every few months of so I'll end up getting a warning or omething that's mostly innocuous. Last one was for making a joke about a book cover that OP posted.

[Anonymous No.16836664]

>>16836618

On a whim, mostly.
I would never have had my tongue pierced if I had known truly what it entailed. I fhcking cursed the tattoo artist once he showed me the needle afterwards (he laughed a lot).
Can't say it was the most enjoyable thing ever, but there was a definitive rush of adrenaline afterwards, I ran for like 3 hours straight right after (even forgot to pay the guy for the piercing, had to come back next day).
As for tattoos, well, I happen to find them hot, so can't help you there. The trashiest the better. My ex had " RAPTOR" tattooed across her belly.

[Anonymous No.16836671]

Why? Why do you do this? I'm not asking for much. I just want ONE SINGLE PLACE on the internet, nay one place in this god-forsaken world, free from visual assault by dong-activating hypersexualized sexysexual boob demons that make my dick explode. Fuck you, OP, and your legion of digital semen demons. I wish I lived in Saudi Arabia, where I'd have a virgin wife and live free from all these cum-stealing whores .

[Anonymous No.16836677]

>>16836646
Nothing sexual or gore related. Last time I got hit it was for having a webm of a guy going into Walmart.
>>16836656
True. Just by looking at the catalog you can tell when they choose to enforce it is up to how butthurt the janny is feeling. This place is riddled with non /lit/ related thread images yet they hammer me with speed. Fuck jannies.

[Anonymous No.16836692]

>>16836637
Agreed, one time I posted a pic of a blonde with big tits in a yellow dress and got banned, even though there were threads with sexy women as the pic allowed to stay until archived. They literally just pick and choose when to apply the rules, I feel like the reason why they're so lax with it is so they can randomly ban people for fun.

[Anonymous No.16836736]

>>16836692
indeed

[Anonymous No.16836742]

>>16836671

> He doesn't coom to /lit/ to recharge his libidinal forces

[Anonymous No.16836958]

fpbp
on the one hand i can't blv how bad this thread turned out; on the other op has only himself to blame
i don't have that much to add as yout first response basically nailed it: learn to scan metre (at least iambic pentameter, at least roughly), try to read more widely, and you'll start to get it
i second what that person said about reading the victorians: they're far away enough to expand your horizons (and your vocabulary), without being completely alien/unreadable (especially if you are esl and a beginner)
in particular, edgar allen poe (not strictly a victorian but victorian era) is fun for ppl who don't read much poetry, imo; try 'annabel lee' (easy) or (a bit harder, but obviously a classic) the raven
good luck!

[Anonymous No.16836983]

>>16832429
>the meaning being conveyed
Nothing makes me want to post a s*y w*jak more than people who can't hold enough limes at once to allow the death of meaning. Sometimes you've got a square peg and there's no square hole. The peg itself may be beautiful, and the holes might be drawn from the kind of fundamental "stuff" which underpins capital-R Reality, but they still might not fit. Nonsense is a varietal of sense (or at least a conjugation of it) as much as meaningless is a varietal of meaning. They share the same context with their antipodes.

[Anonymous No.16837011]

>>16836983
big schizo energy

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16838158]

>>16833759
>you still don't get it
>You must burn everything beautiful from your mind
This killing the motivation for poetry.
Do iconoclasts wonder why the arts are so flat and stale?