/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20634795]

Is poetry dead?

[Anonymous No.20634799]

Was it ever alive?

[Anonymous No.20634813]

>>20634795
It seems as though Americans are either completely self-hating or overly self-aggrandising with no middle ground.
Either way, this constant push to make people feel guilty about shit they have nothing to do with has been boring and aimless for a long time.

[Anonymous No.20634827]

>>20634795
Stunning and brave

[Anonymous No.20634840]

>>20634795
>>20634799
>>20634813
>>20634827
seething chuds

[Anonymous No.20634848]

>>20634840
dumb eunuch, go cut off your dick for cybele so the pope knows you're a good g*y

[Anonymous No.20634902]

>>20634795
It's honestly incredible how local, state, and federal politicians all across the country have been passing either restrictive or lax gun legislation for over 30 years and yet they still keep happening. In fact, they're happening more frequently. It's almost as if... it's not the guns and is in fact, like all crime, a behavioral, cultural, and socioeconomic issue. It's honestly even more ridiculous when you consider we just passed what was supposed to end these tragedies. Really pathetic country I live in where everyone blames something other than themselves.

[Anonymous No.20634909]

>>20634902
even mi6 knows the false flags it's staging are fake

dickless british robbers won't stop until they repeal the second amendment for Hole

[Anonymous No.20634916]

>>20634795
>scar-mangled
fucking seriously?

[Anonymous No.20634919]

>>20634795
message over form. it was inevitable

[Anonymous No.20634921]

>>20634916
Forget it, Jake. It's the Gorilla Channel

[Anonymous No.20634964]

>>20634795
>by the gone’s early flight

what the fuck

[Anonymous No.20634976]

What does this even mean?

[Anonymous No.20634987]

>>20634976
it means a nigger with no internal life randomly came up with words that sounded like the star spangled banner lyrics and just barely gave it a negative connotation, then claimed to make some grand statement by posting it on her nigger social media to get nigger likes and nigger retweets from liberals with a nigger fetish.

[Anonymous No.20635014]

>>20634987
We don't use that word here

[Anonymous No.20635028]

>>20635014
>We don't use that word here
Which word?

[Anonymous No.20635039]

>>20635028
L******.

[Anonymous No.20635734]

>>20634987

[Anonymous No.20635758]

The anthem is literally about a battle already.

[Anonymous No.20635763]

>>20634987
Are you the anon that wrote the novel using the n word 50,000 times?

[Anonymous No.20635778]

>>20634795
Like all forms of art it has been dead since the 1960s.

[Anonymous No.20635802]

>burger poetry

[Anonymous No.20635807]

>>20634795
anyone know how much she get paid for her poetry?

[Anonymous No.20635824]

>>20635807
Don't know, but I can't imagine that it's actually all that much. Poetry sells like shit unless you hit meme tier like rupi kaur

[Anonymous No.20635840]

>>20634795
Written in a way that only someone who has never known any true hardship could.

[Anonymous No.20635849]

It died with ezra pound, the top poets of the modern age are instagram influencers like rupi kaur who is complete garbage that does nothing but write about liberal platitudes and muh vagina

[Anonymous No.20635852]

lol reminds me of this but this is better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtxV3rQgyls

[Anonymous No.20635857]

>>20634795
This is something bart Simpson would come up with

[Anonymous No.20635869]

>>20635852
Oh say can you fucking see
The missiles fall like rain
Bloody mountains majesty
Dead bodies on the plain
By the bombing's eerie light
See the crimsons waves of red
What so proudly they all fell
The twilight of the dead

America - the violent
The indifferent
God shit is grace on me
America - the arrogant
The belligerent
Will live in infamy
We the people, for no people
Secure the blessings of tragedy
Do or dain we have enstablished
The scar spangled banner

(Solo)

We pledge allegiance to no god
Only to the blood
Liberty is just a dream
When dying in the mud
This, the land of the deceived, home of the depraved
Bombs, they drop like falling leaves
And the deadly flag still waves

America - the violent
The indifferent
God shit is grace on me
America - the arrogant
The belligerent
Will live in infamy
We the people, for no people
Secure the blessings of tragedy
Do or dain we have enstablished
The scar spangled banner

Red - the beautiful color of blood
Flowing like a stream
White - the color of bleaching bone
Lovely and obscene
Blue - the bruising color of flesh
Battered, ripped and torn
The colors of the flag of hate
Of violence and porn
What you see is what you get
You haven't see the bloody trail yet
I'm no patriot, just a hate-triot

Blood sport, my sure bet
See the flag, get a body bag
Salvation form a .44 mag.
Nothing left, no one saved
Cause our goddamn motherfucking bloody ass
Banner still waves

(Solo)

Oh say can you fucking see
The missiles fall like rain
Bloody mountains majesty
Dead bodies on the plain
By the bombing's eerie light
See the crimsons waves of red
What so proudly they all fell
The twilight of the dead

America - the violent
The indifferent
God shit is grace on me
America - the arrogant
The belligerent
Will live in infamy
We the people, for no people
Secure the blessings of tragedy
Do or dain we have enstablished
The scar spangled banner

[Anonymous No.20635875]

Jose can you sneeze

[Anonymous No.20635880]

>>20635849
I'm sure he's not popular here, but Ginsberg's early work was very good. But reading something like this makes it hard to feel confident about the state of contemporary poetry.
Leftists and liberals in this country seem very proud of the artistic output that comes from people on their side, but when you look at the dreck they celebrate, it's hard to not see them as delusional. Even the art of this sort has gotten so much worse. Just compare something like Howl to this and it's hard to not feel as if their poetry has declined, and I wonder if they notice it too.

[Anonymous No.20635917]

>>20634799
Yes, you just have shit taste

[Anonymous No.20635924]

>>20635880
thats because its no longer about art its about virtue signaling what side you are on, these people arent against the mainstream, they are of it and they reinforce it. this makes for bad art

it would be cool if there were a neofolk movement in poetry like there was in music

[Anonymous No.20635932]

This is literally what all poetry sounds like. Shit tier art form

[Anonymous No.20636009]

>>20635924
>it would be cool if there were a neofolk movement in poetry like there was in music
I agree to some extent, but I think any hope for the future of art lies in some sort of folk revival, but it would come in the form of a populist direct engagement with the arts. It would be best if it acted as a synthesis of folk styles and the experimental modernism of the early 20th century in an a rejection of popular art that has developed during that time period while still taking advantage of technological developments that have occurred since then. I just don't see something like that ever developing because the people with the ability to create such works would find the idea repellent and those who may find it appealing have either abandoned the arts or would hate the more experimental aspects needed to make it hostile to popular consumption, so I don't think there's a chance.
Neofolk was just about playing the hurdy gurdy and being an edgy racist. It's pretty would find the laughable as far as I'm concerned.

[Anonymous No.20636018]

I'm reading Kipling right now, and I'm convinced poetry was never alive.

[Anonymous No.20636071]

>>20634795
I've read things in /lit/ critique threads that either stand among the classics, exceed anything published today, or are generally just a good laugh.
So it's alive, as long as somebody has bothered to make a thread.

[Anonymous No.20636152]

>>20634795
Who is Gone? Another typo for Al Gore?

[Anonymous No.20636226]

>>20634795
Not while Nael still lives.

[Anonymous No.20636287]

>>20634987
Why can't all /lit/ anons be this loquacious?

[Anonymous No.20636382]

>>20634987
>>20635763
Any word on that? I legitimately want to see where that went.
Also someone post the page.

[Anonymous No.20636419]

>>20634813
You cant charactetize all of america based on Twitter

[Anonymous No.20636422]

>>20635763
haha no I may have subconsciously channeled that

[Anonymous No.20636424]

>>20635880
It's the same side that approves of "art" like banana tapes on a walls or a self-destructing portrait that no one ever saw trusts us and that claims that whter something is art or not is subjective.

[Anonymous No.20636433]

>>20636382
I weep that we'll probably never see the whole thing, though it was apparently completed.

[Anonymous No.20636627]

>>20636382
>Any word on that?
Well there is a word...

[Anonymous No.20636785]

>>20634902
Nigga we have all of those socioeconomic issues and mental cunts around too. The only difference is I don't have to be worried about being shot by a spic while buying groceries because no one has guns here.

[Anonymous No.20636804]

>>20636433
>he doesn't want to be repetitive
Never ceases to make me laugh

[Anonymous No.20636825]

>>20634795
poetry is meant to be daring and personal.

a bluecheck state hire is going to sound flat of course of course please simmer down screencapper

[Anonymous No.20636866]

I write pretty good poetry

[Anonymous No.20637308]

read the twitter comments on gorman's poems and follow the links, it's a botnet

[Anonymous No.20637329]

>>20637308
LOL

[Anonymous No.20637348]

>>20637329

[Anonymous No.20637636]

>>20636433
>You will never be able to purchase Tumult of the Niggers in hardback
Why even live