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20116172 No.20116172 [Reply] [Original]

The greatest amerishart poet of the last century

>> No.20116173

>Modern poet
>"great"

>> No.20116212

>>20116173
yeah

>> No.20116256

>>20116172
Americans can't into poetry cos they don't have souls

>> No.20116356
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20116356

>>20116256
*blocks your path*

>> No.20116364

>>20116256
Spottemgottem?

>> No.20116656

>>20116356
Literally Oh Shit Nigger What Are You Doing tier. Melville and Longfellow are better poets by country miles

>> No.20116661

/mu/ fag = opinion on literature disqualified

>> No.20116724

>>20116172
What do you recommend? I only know Poncho and Lefty

>> No.20116761

>>20116256
Souls were actually invented by Charles Montgomery in Springfield Vermont in 1803.

>> No.20118050

>>20116724
Lungs, Our Mother The Mountain, Nothin, Waiting Around to Die

>> No.20118258

>>20116661
if OP was from /mu/ he would be posting kpop and soundcloud trap.

>> No.20119653

Ezra Pound

>> No.20119685

>>20116724
Dollar Bill Blues
Big Mountain Blues
Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel
For The Sake Of The Song

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20119713

Most successful poet of the 20th century right here.

>> No.20120609

>>20116656
Melville's poetry was dogshit.
>>20116172
TS eliot published the waste land exactly 100 years ago.

>> No.20120985

america has never produced a single poet of merit
>muh whitman
homosexual, discarded
>muh pound
antisemite, discarded

>> No.20121276

>>20120985
But you are also a known homosexual...?

>> No.20121606

as much as i like townes, he is not a particularly talented poet which unaccompanied by his music. for example:
"And a lonely child longingly looks for a place to belong"
anyone who thinks this is a good lyric is retarded.

>> No.20121959

>>20120985
discard your life

>> No.20122352

>>20116656
where 2 start with longfellow

>> No.20122360

>>20120985
you will never be a butter

>> No.20123281

>>20116173
Durr

>> No.20123781

>>20120985
philosemites are incapable of poetry
>>20116172
true and based