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Post your top 5 favorite poets of all time and I’ll make a guess about your personality based on the picks.

>> No.17599077

>>17598815
Blake
Keats
Whitman
Dickinson
Borges

>> No.17599084

>>17599077
It’s likely that you are extremely gay.

>> No.17599120

>>17598815
Hölderlin

>> No.17599132

>>17599120
It’s likely that you are intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.

>> No.17599160

>>17598815
Plath
Stevens
Rich
Kinell
Milton

>> No.17599162

>>17598815
Char
Baudelaire
Bonnefoy
Yeats
Apollinaire

>> No.17599173

>>17599160
It’s likely that you have a strong feeling of superiority.

>>17599162
You likely come off as quite sensitive but deep down are very strong.

>> No.17599187

1) Yannis Ritsos
2) Homer
3) Percy Shelley
4) Thoreau
5) Walt Whitman

>> No.17599189
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17599189

>>17599173
>but deep down are very strong.
I wish anon... I wish... Maybe one day I'll make you proud

>> No.17599196

Hölderlin
Busch
Goethe
Brecht
Storm

>> No.17599211

>>17599187
You likely pride yourself on your individuality but don’t do much to earn that perception.

>>17599189
Perhaps you haven’t discovered your reserve of strength for yourself yet.

>>17599196
You are likely considered boring but could be fun at parties if you just let loose a little.

>> No.17599259

>>17599211
damn you slaughtered me

>> No.17599273

>>17598815
>Norwid
>Yeats
>Baudelaire
>Leśmian
>Pound

>> No.17599298

>>17599273
You likely feel like a wild man for eating with your hands.

>> No.17599314

poe

>> No.17599321

>>17599314
You are a being of unimpeachable taste.

>> No.17599350

Poe
Bukowski
Blake
Yeats
Gunn

>> No.17599363

>>17599350
You likely skipped class often to spend the morning at the library but ended up looking out the window more than reading.

>> No.17599412

>>17599363
correct !

>> No.17599867

Bump

>> No.17600021

>>17598815
Shakespeare
Blake
Milton
Spenser
Dickinson

>> No.17600043

>>17598815
I like Blake but havent really read any other poetry. Any recs on where to go next?

>> No.17600056

>>17598815
Baudelaire
Villon
Poe
Byron
Novalis

>> No.17600137

>>17600021
You likely talk to yourself a lot and think “if only other people could hear this.”

>>17600043
You likely have a lot of dreams that take place at night, where you are running.

>> No.17600145

>>17600137
The second one was meant for >>17600056

>> No.17600159

>>17600137
>>17600021

Half right.

>> No.17600200

>>17598815
Rimbaud
Keats
Majaz (Urdu poet compared to Keats)

>> No.17600222
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17600222

>>17600043
the best brit romantics

>> No.17600223

>>17600200
Scratch the earlier one.

Rimbaud
Keats
Allen Poe
Thomas Chatterton/Bukowski
Majaz

>> No.17600235

>>17600043
do the other english romantics- shelley, keats, byron, wordsworth, coleridge are the big ones. maybe read paradise lost too, depends what you like about blake

>> No.17600264

>>17600223
You have likely slept on the floor more than the average person.

>> No.17600282

>>17600137
>You likely have a lot of dreams that take place at night, where you are running.
I do indeed.

>> No.17600303

>>17600264
It's like once a month on average

>> No.17600319

>>17600303
I’d say that’s unusually high.

>> No.17600650

Whitman
Penn Warren
Shakespeare
Blake
Nael, age 6

>> No.17600726

>>17600650
You have likely fantasized about grabbing a pint with Harold Bloom.

>> No.17600754

>>17600726
Can't say that I have, but close enough (have fantasized about having a dinner party with a bunch of Bloom-like intellects).

>> No.17600761

de vigny
dante
verlaine
keats
homer

>> No.17600813

>>17600761
You have likely done things like go on hikes with the express intent of gathering poetic inspiration from it but then forgot all about that after doing it and becoming lost in the reverie of nature.