/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23274246]

ITT: Writers that ESLs will never understand

[Anonymous No.23274251]

I understand him just fine.

[Anonymous No.23274253]

>>23274251

[Anonymous No.23274257]

>>23274246

[Anonymous No.23274259]

>>23274246

[Anonymous No.23274261]

>>23274246
His writing is heavily influenced by dreams, his personality, and knowledge. Including lack of knowledge. A lot of his work describes architecture and what he did and didn't understand. The void in the mind was something to be feared but not something that isn't worth exploring. His own fears are reflected in what he wrote.

[Anonymous No.23274276]

>>23274246
you're not special

[Anonymous No.23274326]

[sage No.23274344]

Imagine being *this* triggered by non-Americans.

[Anonymous No.23274377]

>>23274326
CHEERIOS

[Anonymous No.23274387]

[Anonymous No.23274406]

No, but seriously.

>I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
>Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
>But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
>Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
>’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
>If ever any beauty I did see,
>Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.

>And now good-morrow to our waking souls,
>Which watch not one another out of fear;
>For love, all love of other sights controls,
>And makes one little room an everywhere.
>Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
>Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
>Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

>My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
>And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
>Where can we find two better hemispheres,
>Without sharp north, without declining west?
>Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
>If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
>Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

[Anonymous No.23274423]

>>23274406
No, but seriously.

>Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities,
>Amid lanes and through old woods, where lately the violets peep’d from the ground, spotting the gray debris,
>Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes, passing the endless grass,
>Passing the yellow-spear’d wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen,
>Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards,
>Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave,
>Night and day journeys a coffin.

>Coffin that passes through lanes and streets,
>Through day and night with the great cloud darkening the land,
>With the pomp of the inloop’d flags with the cities draped in black,
>With the show of the States themselves as of crape-veil’d women standing,
>With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night,
>With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads,
>With the waiting depot, the arriving coffin, and the sombre faces,
>With dirges through the night, with the thousand voices rising strong and solemn,
>With all the mournful voices of the dirges pour’d around the coffin,
>The dim-lit churches and the shuddering organs—where amid these you journey,
>With the tolling tolling bells’ perpetual clang,
>Here, coffin that slowly passes,
>I give you my sprig of lilac.

[Anonymous No.23274427]

>>23274259
Pipe down

[Anonymous No.23274429]

>>23274276
>>23274344
Seethe

[Anonymous No.23274554]

>>23274423
I love how I can spot Whitman by "grass" just as much as his cadence.

[Anonymous No.23274627]

>>23274427
>Pipe
Why must you post verbal references to phallic imagery?

[Anonymous No.23275039]

>>23274251
>>23274253
>>23274276
>>23274344
cope

[Anonymous No.23275043]

>>23274246
Lovecraft is very popular in France.

[Anonymous No.23275098]

>>23274246
All of them could be understood. The most probably answer would be Joyce but we have evidence of many foreign ESLs understanding him quite well. Of course few understand him perfectly. I certainly only understand a fraction of what is going on

[Anonymous No.23276092]

>>23274246
He's better in Spanish believe it or not

[Anonymous No.23276120]

>>23274246
Beckett.

[Anonymous No.23276851]

>>23274387
No, they love him. My Polish friend (from Poland) recommends me his books all the time, and my dad, who barely understands basic English, also likes many of his books.

[Anonymous No.23277032]

>>23276092
Not sure what Lovecraft himself would think of such a statement!

[Anonymous No.23277106]

>>23274246
>ESLs
So, Americans?

[El gordo terremoto No.23277113]

I'm the ESLest and I can understand him.

[Anonymous No.23277119]

>>23274257
>pedo

[Anonymous No.23277131]

>>23274387
I know enough english to know he's shit.

[Anonymous No.23277183]

>>23274246
I love this man.

[Anonymous No.23277187]

>>23277106
THIS FAGGOT PAYS FOR 4CHAN EVERYONE LAUGH

[Anonymous No.23278229]

>>23277119
yes, and?

[Anonymous No.23278235]

>>23276092
True. Same goes for Henry James.

[Anonymous No.23278521]

>>23274627
Because you like dick

[Anonymous No.23278523]

>>23277106
Nah, American is the correct form of English.

[Anonymous No.23278981]

>>23277187
And you don't, you poorfag commie douchebag? This is a place you frequent, why not support it?

[Anonymous No.23279011]

>>23278981
how much does it cost?

[Anonymous No.23279047]

>>23274246
Mayhap. However, I’m an EFL as English is my fifth language and I easily comprehend all English speaking authors. Boons of being genuine European with superior education, actual culture and undiluted blood unlike the variegated new worlders, I guess. Lovecraft prose isn’t in any way complicated btw.

[Anonymous No.23279255]

[Anonymous No.23279341]

i would think henry james would offer quite a challege to an esl guy.

[Anonymous No.23279380]

>ESLs will never get to enjoy Shakespeare...

[Anonymous No.23279381]

>>23274246
HEY GAIZ DID U NO HE WAZ RACCISS?