/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16864027]

Did she deserve it?

[Anonymous No.16864049]

>>16864027
Yes

[Anonymous No.16864052]

She's not too bad. I think Anne Carson may be a little better with words, but often tends to insert too many corny cliches, while Kaur has more of an affinity with the present.

[Anonymous No.16864063]

>>16864027
> 31 dec 2019
find a better excuse to shitpost

[Anonymous No.16864075]

>>16864027
old white hags teaching in unis are SEETHING

[Anonymous No.16864076]

Sell me on why I should care about poetry at all.

[Anonymous No.16864091]

>>16864052
>checks for digits
Rupi confirmed to be an elaborate shitpost to satrize the state of modern poetry by a cabal of 4chan users

[Anonymous No.16864126]

>>16864052
>checks for digits duplicates

[Anonymous No.16864270]

>>16864091
>>16864126
im very suspicious, i dont think this is a real thing she wrote.

[Anonymous No.16864292]

>>16864270
I don't know, those watermarks look awfully legit.

[Anonymous No.16864311]

>>16864027
It’s an indicative of our society’s problems
>>16864052
This is from a thread where we wrote our own Rupi poems.
>>16864076
desu Rupi Kaur began my interest in poetry after a fwb recommended her to me because the book was so awful that it made me appreciate what it lacked that I could find in other poetry

[Anonymous No.16864336]

Her poetry is shit and she’s only gaining any recognition because her skin color isn’t white and she doesn’t have a penis.

[Anonymous No.16864424]

>>16864027
she deserves my D for sure

[Anonymous No.16864706]

>>16864052
>Checks for
>Digit duplicates

Yo is she our girl??

[Anonymous No.16864931]

>>16864270
>being this new

[Anonymous No.16865005]

>>16864336
There are a lot of female nonwhite poets who lack her success

[Anonymous No.16865020]

>>16864027
Why does she look prettier than normal in this pic? Almost looks like a different person. Anyway, to answer your question, here's Harold Bloom.

The decision to give the National Book Foundation’s annual award for “distinguished contribution” to Stephen King is extraordinary, another low in the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life. I’ve described King in the past as a writer of penny dreadfuls, but perhaps even that is too kind. He shares nothing with Edgar Allan Poe. What he is is an immensely inadequate writer, on a sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph, book-by-book basis.

What’s happening is part of a phenomenon I wrote about a couple of years ago when I was asked to comment on Rowling. I went to the Yale bookstore and bought and read a copy of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character “stretched his legs.” I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling’s mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing.

But when I wrote that in a newspaper, I was denounced. I was told that children would now only read J.K. Rowling, and I was asked whether that wasn’t, after all, better than reading nothing at all? If Rowling was what it took to make them pick up a book, wasn’t that a good thing?

It is not. “Harry Potter” will not lead our children on to Kipling’s “Just So Stories” or his “Jungle Book.” It will not lead them to Thurber’s “Thirteen Clocks” or Kenneth Grahame’s “Wind in the Willows” or Lewis Carroll’s “Alice.”

Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, “If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King.” And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read “Harry Potter” you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

Our society and our literature and our culture are being dumbed down, and the causes are very complex. I’m 73 years old. In a lifetime of teaching English, I’ve seen the study of literature debased. There’s very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she’d been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn’t even good nonsense. It’s insufferable.

Recently, I spoke at the funeral of my old friend Thomas M. Green of Yale, perhaps the most distinguished scholar of Renaissance literature of his generation. I said, “I fear that something of great value has ended forever.”

[Anonymous No.16865085]

>>16865005
but do they have her social media presence?

[Anonymous No.16865342]

>>16864052
kek saving for a future /lit/ humor thread

[Anonymous No.16865371]

>>16864027
I'd never heard of the giller prize award until this thread so I don't care
Why do you faggot losers invest so deeply in traditional institutional authority? Just because someone in a suit stood on a stage says something doesn't mean you have to listen

[Anonymous No.16865382]

>>16864027
>but some readers are rolling their eyes
those are what we call "serious readers"

[Anonymous No.16865393]

>>16865020
>“Harry Potter” will not lead our children on to...
This is a terrible argument. I appreciate Bloom's "old man yells at clouds" polemics, but thinking a book is terrible isn't a good rationale for writing garbage yourself.

[Anonymous No.16865396]

>>16864052
Lmao

[Anonymous No.16865426]

>>16865020
>Walt Whitman was a racist.
The historical record is very clear on this point. Who cares? Whitman was a racist, at least reconsidered some of those positions, and (and this is key) wrote wonderful poetry. Teach all of that. Bloom is essentially arguing the opposite of what Achebe argues regarding Conrad: i.e. don't teach the racism instead of don't teach the racist. This is beyond stupid.

[Anonymous No.16865490]

>>16864027
Of course not. I didn’t even read the headline but I can assure you even vaguely-mildly attractive women are getting undeserved rewards.

[Anonymous No.16865516]

>>16865020
I love this article.
Thanks for reminding me of it, anon

[Anonymous No.16865660]

>>16864052
So she just shit's on straight white men? How original

[Anonymous No.16865675]

>>16865660
are you unironically retarded, anon?

[Anonymous No.16865705]

>>16865675
>check your privilege
> hurl phallic rockets at diana and name that apollo the oppressor
What else should I think or is there some "deeper level" to this garbage?

[Anonymous No.16865774]

>>16865705
check your digits, faggot

[Anonymous No.16865878]

>>16865426
Should a graduate seminar spend 2 hours on the point without engaging with the man's actual work? How much does a writers perspective even matter to the study of literature unless their work specifically engaged with those ideas?

[Anonymous No.16865967]

>>16864027
of course
a cunt award for a cunt writer

[Anonymous No.16865983]

>>16864027
I would dislike her work, but bc she's one of my people I support her

[Anonymous No.16866056]

>>16864931
I've been on here before Rupi knew how to press the "enter" key, and I still don't recognise this parody, so how about you shut your big mouth, huh?

[Anonymous No.16866064]

>>16866056
so you're just stupid then

[Anonymous No.16866078]

>>16866064
>don't follow and recognise every fresh epic maymay from le 4channel
>so you're just stupid then

[Anonymous No.16866081]

>>16865705
>>16865660
It's a joke, anon. The rocket image still has its watermarks lmao.

[Anonymous No.16866083]

>>16864052
>checks for digit duplicates
>no dubs
Disappointed.

[Anonymous No.16866088]

>Canadian

[Anonymous No.16866100]

rupi kaur's trajectory has been interesting to watch. gets popular on instagram, and there was the year when everyone made fun of milk and honey because it was lame, but then she gets massive and does world tours and shit and suddenly she's on simon & schuster and you get these writeups like "okay maybe kaur isn't the bard, but she's getting brown girls into reading and that's a good thing"

sure, every era has its token shitte poet who shifts units, but rupi cracked the code of right now, and today she's a major player whose success probably pays for dozens of novelists at the same publishing house and nobody ever asks what her parents do for a living. shielded by the a combo of wokeness and riches, who's left to shit on her? seething gargoyles on /lit/? milk and honey indeed

[Anonymous No.16866103]

The patriarchy
trolls my tits
with cold hard
FACTS.
I will
NEVER
be a woman.

[Anonymous No.16866107]

>>16866078
if it makes you seethe so much don't brag about being an oldfag in the first place jeez

[Anonymous No.16866166]

>>16866100
>"okay maybe kaur isn't the bard, but she's getting brown girls into reading and that's a good thing"
I don't think I've ever heard anyone say they actually liked her writing, it's either rationalizations like this or flat-out contempt. It's totally baffling, there must be some underhanded business going on to justify her popularity.

[Anonymous No.16866184]

its fitting, she's the poet most representative of our inane culture of identity politics and social media narcissism

[Anonymous No.16866214]

Yeah, autism must be rewarded.

[Anonymous No.16866240]

>>16865020
Deh!

[Anonymous No.16866281]

>>16866166
>underhanded business going on to justify her popularity.
No, teenage girls just have bad taste.

[Anonymous No.16866397]

>>16864311
I've learned that it's beneficial to read shit writing like this if you want to be a writer

[Anonymous No.16866402]

>>16864336
I disagree. It resonates with other vapid cunts who spend all their time on social media

[Anonymous No.16866416]

>>16866100
Its inspiring because it means any shit writer can attain success. It's probably easier if you're a shit writer in 2020

[Anonymous No.16866434]

>>16864027
is she canadian?

[Anonymous No.16866436]

>>16866416
if you think being a 'shit writer' is all there is to it you're dumber than the people who buy rupi kaur books

[Anonymous No.16866609]

>>16866434
born & bred

[Anonymous No.16866664]

>>16864027
Boo
ba

[Anonymous No.16866695]

>>16864027
>Did she deserve it?
no

her name literally sounds like a foreign currency, midwits think shes exotic when she's actually the most boring set of holes to ever use a pen

[Anonymous No.16867005]

>>16865020
Stupid Bloom. The only important thing is to actually read, it's not like Stephen King readers only read him.

[Anonymous No.16867183]

>>16864027
Her first couple books sold well, but the new one, apparently, is selling like shit.

Source: I know someone who works at a bookstore, and hasn't seen anybody so much as even touch a copy

[Anonymous No.16867208]

>>16865020
based
>>16865426
filtered by mostly missing the point
>>16867005
No, it's not. Content obviously matters hugely.

[Anonymous No.16867212]

>>16867183
she had a simple but solid design template going, which is one of the main reasons people buy these in the first place (instagram fodder), not sure why she abandoned it. new one looks like just another book

[Anonymous No.16867242]

>>16867212
For sure. I'll admit that the cover art of the first two was visually appealing. This new one is just ugly to look at imo

[Anonymous No.16867260]

>>16864027
Wtf you can just post poetry and become famous?!

wtf?!!?!?

[Anonymous No.16867282]

>>16865983
Based chauvinist.

[Anonymous No.16867508]

>>16867242
>I'll admit that the cover art of the first two was visually appealing
It fucking wasn't. It was recognisable and easily became iconic, yes, but that is enough to make it "appealing" only to people with no visual taste. AKA w*men on instagram.

[Anonymous No.16868439]

>>16865878
A graduate seminar is four hours long. You're talking about half of a single class.

[Anonymous No.16868561]

>>16865020
>read a copy of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” I suffered a great deal in the process

This always kills me lol

[Anonymous No.16868591]

>>16864027
By The New Republic magazine.

Definitely not a fan of Rupi Kaur, and many people are not. She isn't taken seriously by poets or serious poetry readers.

Most of her sales come from her Instagram followers. It wasn't a bad business idea by any stretch. But most people saw through the ruse, which is why she isn't taken seriously.

Also, her writing is awful.

[Anonymous No.16868684]

>>16867208
Bloom's point is complete idiocy.

[Anonymous No.16868716]

>>16864027
No doubt.

[Anonymous No.16868836]

>>16865020
Based Bloom, lit is full of yank faggots who grew up reading Harry Potter so they'll never agree

[Anonymous No.16868842]

>>16868684
Ok Portlander

[Anonymous No.16868848]

>>16868836
Maybe because people who aren't idiot critics don't think reading seven bad books will doom you to read bad books for life.

[Anonymous No.16868849]

>>16866609
Someone of Canadian nationality with Indian ancestry is not Canadian born and bred. Born, but not bred

[Anonymous No.16868855]

>>16868842
>anyone who disagrees with my dearest Bloom must be a lib city dweller
You must have an IQ of at least 90 to post here.

[Anonymous No.16868892]

>>16864027
Made me ddg her and the award was given by some dogshit americunt magazine. Kys tranny op.

[Anonymous No.16868904]

>>16866609
>>16868849
She was born in India. Ergo, she was not born or bred Canadian.

[Anonymous No.16868915]

>>16868904
Well then, that further proves my point

[Anonymous No.16868958]

>>16864027
Free publicity created by outraged retards.
Looks like they knew exactly what they were doing and it worked.

[Anonymous No.16868966]

I go to the same university as she did. How can I ride off her fame with my poetry friends

[Anonymous No.16868971]

>>16864052
guarantee she'd rather be fucking the astrophysicist than the coffee shop intellectual

[Anonymous No.16868976]

>>16864027
>giller prize
literally who prize

[Anonymous No.16868981]

>>16868904
that's even more canadian than being born in canada

[Anonymous No.16868997]

>>16865393
it isnt. A beginners book role its to prepare the way to challeging next ones.

[Anonymous No.16869004]

>>16865426
the only thing Achebe ever do is to complaint about a book of 1903 racism, where any human there is a pile of debris

[Anonymous No.16869006]

>>16864027
its okay and to be expected that some ridiculously bad works like Rupis poems or My Immortal become viral and sort of a meme. It stops being so funny when they win prizes.

That said prizes are 99% political from Academic Award to Zeiss Award.

[Anonymous No.16869027]

>>16865020
>“Harry Potter” will not lead our children on to Kipling’s “Just So Stories” or his “Jungle Book.” It will not lead them to Thurber’s “Thirteen Clocks” or Kenneth Grahame’s “Wind in the Willows” or Lewis Carroll’s “Alice.”

It did for me. Harry Potter was a huge and easy-to-read series and got me into the habit of reading.

I also have to say that recently I have started to respect the writing in Harry Potter more than I did as the elitist youngster I was. It is surprisingly good and professionally written- not just fanfic tier shlock.

[Anonymous No.16869046]

>>16864027
She's a disgrace to all Sikhs and should get rid of her last name. Stupid slag.

[Anonymous No.16869056]

>>16865983
she reflects badly on your people.
People will think this is the height your people can achieve.

[Anonymous No.16869061]

>>16869027
exception to the rule. go on goodreads and see all the 30 year old girls with child-sized brains whose first book was harry potter and now only read YA fiction about magical high schoolers.

[Anonymous No.16869071]

>>16869061
I guess you're right.

[Anonymous No.16869159]

>>16865020
>It is not. “Harry Potter” will not lead our children on to Kipling’s “Just So Stories” or his “Jungle Book.” It will not lead them to Thurber’s “Thirteen Clocks” or Kenneth Grahame’s “Wind in the Willows” or Lewis Carroll’s “Alice.”
I originally thought this was wrong but looking at the situation now he was spot-on.

[Anonymous No.16869181]

>>16864027
How do I get a 5/10 Pajeeta gf? Kama sutra in the bedroom every night must be amazing.

[Anonymous No.16869840]

>>16865020
>the pain in his eyes

[Anonymous No.16869997]

>>16868848
imagine thinking he was criticizing harry potter in particular and not the culture which surrounds, produces, and celebrates harry potter.
ironically, this post is exactly what the article was warning about

[Anonymous No.16870010]

>>16865005
Most likely not but thats not that post's claim.

[Anonymous No.16870016]

>>16864052
is this real?

[Anonymous No.16870053]

>>16870016
yes, poopi kaur writes poems about getting dubs on 4chan

[Anonymous No.16870059]

>>16865020
I did not realize this was the source for the "No!" copypasta.

[Anonymous No.16870737]

>>16864027
She's like Ezra pound and the imagists, or Rumi, or basho and other haiku poets. the only difference is that they're good poets and she sucks. very interesting how she can adopt a very simplistic, minimalist form and yet the difference between here poems and the others is immense

[Anonymous No.16870743]

>>16870053
>poopi kaur
spit out a bit of coffee reading that

[Anonymous No.16870949]

>>16865020
Never seen the article in full extremely based

[Anonymous No.16872128]

>>16864027
>>16870053
Rupi Kaur would fit in well as someone who browses /lit/ because likes books but doesn't read.
>"Kaur does not like to read when she is writing, and says that she hasn’t finished a book all year. Now that The Sun and Her Flowers is complete, though, she’s looking forward to digging into the many books she’s bought and not yet started.
>“I will always go into a used bookstore,” she says, even when she’s working. “I’ll collect a lot of covers that inspire me — whether it’s the paper inside, whether it’s a font, so then later I can be like, okay, how’s mine going to look?”
>“And I have still yet to read Steve Jobs, so I’m going to do that, because why not? I watched the movie; it was pretty cool.” Her favorite part was when Jobs tells his incredulous daughter that he’s going to put 7,000 songs in her pocket. “She looks at him like, you’re crazy and you’re annoying and I kind of don’t like the fact that you’re my dad. I was like, wow, the fact that he said that, and look what happened,” Kaur says. “Those are the moments that really inspire me — those types of big, big thinkers.”

[Anonymous No.16872271]

>>16872128
Kaur's existence has to be a joke

[Anonymous No.16872304]

>>16865426
Achebe is a hack who is only "famous" because he is black. He missed the point bigtime on Conrad

[Anonymous No.16872396]

>>16872128
>>16872271
That movie was on the telly and I decided to watch it for a bit.
This scene came and me and my sister both agreed that you'd have to be emotionally stunted to find that sort of fake trash engaging.
It's actually quite incredible that Rupi Kaur mentioned it as a source of inspiration; it seems like some sort of cosmic joke to me.

[Anonymous No.16872831]

>>16864027
I read retards instead of readers.

[Anonymous No.16872912]

>>16865371
This.

[Anonymous No.16873081]

>>16865020
>>“Harry Potter” will not lead our children on to Kipling’s “Jungle Book.” - Kenneth Grahame’s “Wind in the Willows” or Lewis Carroll’s “Alice.”
Furries btfo
Imagine acting as if illustrated books and the Harry Potter tier stuff of yesteryear is so elite but based Rowling is bad for writing multiple 600+ page books that 12 year olds are actually desperate to read.
>In 2000, literary critic Harold Bloom dismissed JK Rowling's Harry Potter writing as "heavy on cliché", “dumbing down” and making "no demands upon her readers". Writing in the Wall Street Journal, he said he doubted the first Harry Potter book would ever be considered a “classic of children's literature”.
Absolutely and eternally btfo. 'Makes no demands of her readers' if one of the most pseud contrarian nothing statements he could have said, and completely untrue.
Professor Snape is one of the greatest characters ever written.
Dumbledore is the final Platonic form of the wizard in fiction.
The series is the most dramatic, exciting, and entertaining ever to be written.
The level of creative and subtly humorous details in the worldbuilding is without equal.
Secondary characters in the series have more distinct personalities that the main characters in many other writers works, Hagrid, the various Weasleys, Umbridge, Lockheart, the school ghosts, etc.
Perfect blend of familiarity and novelty - each book is framed around a school year creating a long repeating theme and solid structure, with a new layer of the magical worlds intrigue and history is uncovered each time.
Real life concerns drive the story as much as fantastical open ended magical notions.

Harry Potter is the highest selling story ever for a reason, if she isn't a good writer then who is? A lot of highbrow literary people would say someone like Borges is a great writer but his raw gravity and creative drive is microscopic compared to the supposedly mud tier Rowling, and his short stories are basically just faint sketch outlines of surreal ideas. Many respected names don't have a single character in their work that could be compared to one of Rowlings fully realised personalities.

[Anonymous No.16873097]

>>16872128
she sounds so vapid

[Anonymous No.16873146]

>>16873081
Trying too hard

[Anonymous No.16873155]

>>16865005
Yes, but those poets actually write about their struggles, which turns off the woke grrl power crowd. Kaur aggressively markets herself as a non-white womyn "taking up space" in literature circles, while writing vapid shit like pic related.
She's the perfect metaphor for woke capitalism, a narcissistic woman using her identity to sell garbage.

[Anonymous No.16873183]

>>16872128
>I will always go into a used bookstore,” she says, even when she’s working. “I’ll collect a lot of covers that inspire me — whether it’s the paper inside, whether it’s a font, so then later I can be like, okay, how’s mine going to look?”
She is basically 90% of /lit/ posters. People who just buy books to take pictures of them on their shelf / night stand and get upvotes on reddit. Most of this board has no right to look down on her, they're the exact same type of person and are probably just jealous she actually got famous.

[Anonymous No.16873198]

>>16873155
I would give this a B if it was submitted in a poetry assignment in high school, but only if the drawings were part of it. Otherwise it would be a C, because it looks like something typed 20 minutes before it was handed in.

[Anonymous No.16873199]

>>16864052
Missed opportunity for dubs

[Anonymous No.16873222]

>>16873199
too on the nose. anon did good

[Anonymous No.16873249]

>>16873155
the fucks that even supposed to mean

[Anonymous No.16873288]

>>16873249
I don't get it either. The salt and sugar seems to be a metaphor for toxic relationships, but the rest is talking about guys that aren't putting in the effort.
It's like she combined two vaguely-related empowerment quotes and called it a poem.

[Anonymous No.16873290]

>>16872128
This is the kind of stuff I'd type in a shitpost to paint the most depressingly vapid parody of a normie I can imagine. Lately I cannot tell the joke from reality. Even the poetry edits here are hard to tell apart, if not from the 4chan lingo.
Has there ever been a time like this in history?

[Anonymous No.16873299]

>>16865020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARa2eQ4Rqk0&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=klepts54

[Anonymous No.16873383]

>>16865020
Also he shits on Stephen king, who 'shares nothing with Edgar Allan Poe'
OK so if you look at something like the Pit And The Pendulum it's fantastically written, and The Raven is so good they recreated it on The Simpsons which was brilliant. He can make the measurments of a cell sound interesting and a man staring at a bird as he mentally deteriorates worth animating.

But what the hell has that got to do with Stephen King? King has a totally different style, and he's fantastic. He misses the point completely just as he does with Rowling.
Stephen King is capable of producing massively ambitious and genuinely terrifying paranormal horror, and like Rowling he grounds the absolute extreme of the fantastic firmly in the framework of the concerns of mundane life and solid reality.
And unlike much classic literature with a distinctly British taste and influence, King is a purely American entity. His environments are perfect examples of wholesome Norman Rockwell scenes which he brings to life with smiling multi generational communities and white picket fences, then he slowly tears them to pieces with demonic possesions, hallucinatory murders, and gut wrenching insanity.

Take Needful things. The items from the knick knack shop are all icons of pure golden years Americana, a pair of Elvis Presleys shades, a rare baseball card - and then it turns out these treasured items are twisted illusions that are exerting malicious psychological effects on the townspeople and driving them against each other. The pure simmering evil King develops over the course of his books is powerful, and the talent he has in assassinating his own perfectly scultped America is ingenious. It's like he is actually tormenting himself as the story unfolds.
Not only is he so uniquely strong in the area of fear, but he is capable of changing style and genre. He wrote The Shawshank Redemption and The Running man, and is prolific in his output.

tl;dr - Fuck Bloom

[Anonymous No.16873699]

This is why mass literacy was a mistake.

[Anonymous No.16873771]

>This is why mass literacy was a mistake.

[Anonymous No.16873877]

>>16873771
he's right though

[Anonymous No.16873917]

>>16873699
ignore the plebs, anon. don’t let them rage bait you

[Anonymous No.16873960]

>>16864027
>instapoet

[Anonymous No.16874031]

[Anonymous No.16874402]

>>16868439
half of a single class that costs 40,000 dollars u faggot

[Anonymous No.16874410]

India is strong. We are powerful

[Anonymous No.16874413]

social media screencaps should warrant an instant lifetime ban

[Anonymous No.16874422]

>shitskin gets award for doing literally anything
That's everyday in Canada.

[Anonymous No.16874429]

>>16864027
Deserve what, some editor from The New Republic (a progressive political magazine) declaring her writer of the decade?
Sure, why not.

[Anonymous No.16874440]

>>16874402
stop exaggerating. i did 3 grad classes per semester and each semester was nominally 20k (didn't pay that because of scholarships), that works out to 7k per class

[Anonymous No.16874539]

>>16869027
Okay cool so Harry Potter convinced one gay child to read more often. Great

[Anonymous No.16874634]

>>16872304
based. fuck Chinigger and his gay ass corpus

[Anonymous No.16874660]

>>16864027
>Poo
>Leaf
>Social Media eThot
3 strikes and you're out Poopi

[Anonymous No.16874861]

"Deathless Aphrodite, throned in flowers,
Daughter of Zeus, O terrible enchantress,
With this sorrow, with this anguish, break my spirit
Lady, not longer!

Hear anew the voice! O hear and listen!
Come, as in that island dawn thou camest,
Billowing in thy yoked car to Sappho
Forth from thy father's

Golden house in pity! ... I remember:
Fleet and fair thy sparrows drew thee, beating
Fast their wings above the dusky harvests,
Down the pale heavens,

Lightning anon! And thou, O blest and brightest,
Smiling with immortal eyelids, asked me:
'Maiden, what betideth thee? Or wherefore
Callest upon me?

'What is here the longing more than other,
Here in this mad heart? And who the lovely
One beloved that wouldst lure to loving?
Sappho, who wrongs thee?

'See, if now she flies, she soon must follow;
Yes, if spurning gifts, she soon must offer;
Yes, if loving not, she soon must love thee,
Howso unwilling...'

Come again to me! O now! Release me!
End the great pang! And all my heart desireth
Now of fulfillment, fulfill! O Aphrodite,
Fight by my shoulder!"
If this weren't written 2500 years ago /lit/ would shit on it

[Anonymous No.16874928]

>>16874861
>if this weren't written 2500 years ago /lit/ would shit on it
congrats, you've discovered context. Further readings will include Pierre Menard and Tradition and the Individual Talent

[Anonymous No.16874979]

>>16873299
>this passes for good comedy in britbong land

[Anonymous No.16875014]

>>16865020
Didn’t know he passed about a year ago, RIP

> Professor Bloom called himself “a monster” of reading; he said he could read, and absorb, a 400-page book in an hour. His friend Richard Bernstein, a professor of philosophy at the New School, told a reporter that watching Professor Bloom read was “scary.”

>Armed with a photographic memory, Professor Bloom could recite acres of poetry by heart — by his account, the whole of Shakespeare, Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” all of William Blake, the Hebraic Bible and Edmund Spenser’s monumental “The Faerie Queene.” He relished epigraphs, gnomic remarks and unusual words: kenosis (emptying), tessera (completing), askesis (diminishing) and clinamen (swerving).

What a champ

[Anonymous No.16875174]

>>16864052
>she's not too bad
>progressist propaganda start to end

She sucks. You need to read better shit.

[Anonymous No.16875230]

>>16865020
Holy fucking based

[Anonymous No.16875267]

>>16865020
wtf I love whitman now

[Anonymous No.16875318]

>>16872128
In an alternate reality this would have been a very subtle shitpost but it's real lmao

[Anonymous No.16875336]

>>16873183
>People who just buy books to take pictures of them on their shelf / night stand and get upvotes on reddit. Most of this board has no right to look down on her, they're the exact same type of perso
uh idk anon, i actually read, maybe yuo are projecting a little bit

[Anonymous No.16875363]

>>16873383
King was a cokehead who pushed out pulp horror like it was going out of style, until it did.

[Anonymous No.16875397]

>>16873383
Nothing of what you just said matters because their prose is shit. King and Rowling are garbage writers and deep inside you know it.

[Anonymous No.16875465]

>>16873249
Rupi Kaur writes exclusively in koans. She's on a level of enlightenment that we are not yet ready to comprehend.

[Anonymous No.16875488]

>>16865020
Hello you've reached the based department

[Anonymous No.16875510]

>>16875014
Fake and gay.

[Anonymous No.16875518]

declared poet of the decade by who? and does it matter? half the nobel prize winners are now forgotten.

[Anonymous No.16875537]

>>16875518
By some random US magazine.

[Anonymous No.16876235]

>>16873199
>>16873222
WHAT'S HAPPENING?

[Anonymous No.16876560]

>>16864052
>I think Anne Carson may be a little better with words
Lmao underrated

>>16864027
No

[Anonymous No.16876585]

>>16864052
Check THESE digits duplicates

[Anonymous No.16876932]

[Anonymous No.16876986]

>>16865020
>stretched his legs
Fucking dead. So that's where this meme comes from.

[Anonymous No.16877040]

>>16869061
women stop developing at 16 years old
this is true 9 times out of 10

[Anonymous No.16877277]

if you told me this person was just a million dollar extreme character i'd believe you

[Anonymous No.16877455]

>>16868971
you mean astronaut
those are the chads

[Anonymous No.16877474]

>>16874410
>>16865983
>t. low caste

[Anonymous No.16879004]

[Anonymous No.16880188]

>>16864052

[Anonymous No.16880227]

>>16874440
Fuck me, that is an awful amount of money. I can't imagine higher education is a remotely worthwhile or feasible option for anyone without a scholarship.

[Anonymous No.16880238]

>>16868855
>You must have an IQ of at least 90 to post here.
We all know that's unfortunately false

[Anonymous No.16880239]

>>16865426
This is your brain on current community college lit classes.

[Anonymous No.16880254]

>>16866416
Well, as long as your skin is the right color and your genitals are the right configuration, yes, it is easier than ever.

[Anonymous No.16880270]

>>16873383
>The Raven is so good they recreated it on The Simpsons which was brilliant.

You people need to be gassed

[Anonymous No.16880301]

>>16874031
>>16879004
kek

[Anonymous No.16880312]

>>16868981
You're confusing India with China.

[Anonymous No.16880427]

>>16880254
Most of the bestsellers are trash though. I feel like publishing isn't as affirmative action as movies/music since you don't see the author as much as actors/musicians

[Anonymous No.16880460]

>>16880427
You don't see the author as much in the book itself, but then the people who buy bestsellers don't do it for the books' contents

[Anonymous No.16880500]

>>16872128
>>“And I have still yet to read Steve Jobs, so I’m going to do that, because why not? I watched the movie; it was pretty cool.”

i read his bio 3 times when i was in high school lmao, is she that lazy?

[Anonymous No.16880592]

>>16865020
And yet people will remember Rowling and King but not Bloom


Lel