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Anonymous Fri Nov 23 18:45:11 2012 No.3172841 [Reply] [Original]

I'm looking to get a little deeper into poetry. I've been reading Frost and Plath, I'm mostly interested in melancholy works or things about winter. What do you guys recommend?

Anonymous Fri Nov 23 18:50:11 2012 No.3172861

>>3172841
>melancholy works or things about winter
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.

The land's sharp features seemed to be
The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.

At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware
-the darkling thrush, thomas hardy

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 23 20:14:12 2012 No.3173119 bump

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 23 20:19:12 2012 No.3173135 just stay with Sylvia Plath forever. A little angsty but definitely gritty, dark, and overall depressing.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 23 20:25:12 2012 No.3173153 >>3173135 not op but what books should I pick up?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 23 20:30:12 2012 No.3173172 >>3173153 are you open to plays and poetry as well or just books?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 23 20:31:12 2012 No.3173177 >>3173172 yeah, anything's good

Anonymous Fri Nov 23 20:38:12 2012 No.3173196

>>3173177
All Sylvia Plath all the time, Buried Child by Sam Shepard or True West by the same playwright, anything by Peter Shaffer, Oleanna by David Mamet, and some of William Butler Yeats' works are dark. Sorry most of those are plays but those are what come to mind

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 23 20:43:12 2012 No.3173214 >>3173196 cool thank you.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 23 20:50:12 2012 No.3173237 Four Quartets by Eliot and Canti by Leopardi.

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