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19751237 No.19751237 [Reply] [Original]

How do I learn to appreciate poetry?

>> No.19751427

>>19751237
Learn the basics of rhyme and meter so you don't embarrass yourself and watch others embarrass themselves in myriad ways. Limericks and bawdy ballads are a good start before you try to pretend even the gravest shit is serious. If you can't have a chuckle, you're fucked.

>> No.19751470

it doesn't look safe
cute bunnies are going to die
probably they will be eaten by a wolf or some other predator

>> No.19751503

>>19751237
I will never achieve anything as great this picture.

>> No.19751539

listening to poetry read aloud may give you a feel for the way the iambic foot is constructed.
For great clear poetry try following some of the classic's : Pope and Swift are quite easy to read and A Description of a City Shower was, i remember, my first foray into proper verse.

>> No.19751596

>>19751539
> A Description of a City Shower was
i just had another look at it and it's not as easy as i remember, but Swift's Helter Skelter is, so maybe start with that.

>> No.19751604

>>19751470
They are safe
I will protect them

>> No.19751613

>>19751604 (cont)
Anyway, OP, read poetry aloud. It makes you understand the meter, etc.

>> No.19751635

>>19751604
What dangers lurk in lagomorph hearts,
To summon a protector without delay.
Nameless, indeed, their savior thou art,
An unknown defender of bunnies, hurray!

:^)

>> No.19751645

wholesome thread

>> No.19752365
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19752365

>>19751604
t. chad

>> No.19752640

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock

>> No.19752660

Read it out loud and read it several times. Poetry doesn't really work inside your head.

>> No.19752704

>>19751237
I like this poem. At first you start to read, and it looks like a normal cutepost about bunnies, but at the end, it tells you that there is something more to these bunnies than just being cute, they are dreaming of something. Something that's important to them. They have hope for a new world.

>> No.19752715
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19752715

get your enby partner to read it to you

>> No.19752875

I feel that the majority of poetry is overly sensuous and sentimental. Is there any poetry that appeals exclusively to the intellect?

>> No.19752881

>>19752875
spoken like an incel

>> No.19753440

>>19751237
why

>> No.19754101

>>19752660
>>19751427
What about poetry written in a different language?

>> No.19754168

>>19752875
01101110 01100101 01110010 01100100

>> No.19754174

>>19752875
Platonic dialogues, anything written by the Renaissance Hermetists.

>> No.19754236

>>19754174
It is as I thought - poetry is merely an expression for the vacuous

>> No.19754241

Will reading a collection of the best english poems of all time make me appreciate poetry?

>> No.19754320
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19754320

They aren't safe underground.

>> No.19754356

Does anyone else know this mental illness we're you become very emotional with regards to things like this, basically cute, naive, innocent and precious things being happy and safe, etc and the prospect of those things being harmed or hurt really upsets you but at the same time, you have constant intrusive thoughts about all the ways that the cute, naive, innocent and precious things could be hurt, the way the bunnies would be torn about by a fox as the mother rabbit is screaming and terrified, basically catatonic while trapped in a corner of the burrow, the child whose birthday is coming up and she loves her parents and doesn't want to ask for too much despite her parents offering a lot and simply asks them to buy her a toy rabbit and they end up dying in a car accident on the way to pick it up for her the day before her birthday, freak accidents in general torment me, the mother whose infant son drowns in a pool
I wish I wasn't like this, I had a father who killed himself when I was 14 and it came out of the blue for me but I was a sick fuck already by then and so it wasn't as if I was innocent and naive so I don't really see it as a connection

>> No.19754359

>>19751237
that pic is unbelievably cozy, thank you OP

>> No.19754561

>>19752715
What's her name again?

>> No.19754650

>>19752875

Good poetry has you appreciating every word in each line as it carries purpose that can be rediscovered several times.

Read it literally.

Read it in the way you think the author intended.

Read it in the way you would only off your experiences.

Majority of poetry is grueling for entertainment because even the most empathetic person can't relate to every shared experience written but when you do find something that interests you whether it's about a drug addict's recovery, the scenery of Dixie, or about someone's muse it finally clicks and you'll appreciate it.

>> No.19754706

>>19754356
Sounds like trauma, seek help.

>> No.19754755

>>19754650
Good post.

>> No.19755009

>>19754561
Kat / paperbackdreams

>> No.19755640

>>19754356
Intrusive thoughts are a sign of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

>> No.19755662

I didnt care for poetry until i fell in love with a person that did not want me.

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19755671

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/70138/wallace-stevens-the-emperor-of-ice-cream

Read this poem and this article. Then you will be one step better at appreciating poetry.

>> No.19755687

>>19754356
You have a pure soul

>> No.19755696

>>19751237
Every attempt at art I have made gets mogged by a three line poem about bunnies.

>> No.19756929

>>19755662
Did it work?

>> No.19756945

>>19752875
Borgesian poetry.

>> No.19757054

>>19752875
That's because it is lol. All art is emotional obfuscation of the point for its own sake. This appeals to a lot of people. In that, it isn't really the domain for intellectual framework.

>> No.19757181

>>19754356
Read "The Catcher in the Rye."