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I've never read poetry except for when I was forced to in high school and hated it.

I want to try now, though. Please recommend me some interesting, easy stuff to get into.

>> No.3404861

William Blake, the classic english Romantic poets: Byron, Keats, Shelley.
Do not read Modernist Poetry to get into poetry.

>> No.3404870

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/

>> No.3404872

Dylan Thomas everyday.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/and-deatshall-have-no-dominion/

>> No.3404909

Consider reading beatnik poetry.

>> No.3404922

>>3404844
Buy the ode less travelled

>> No.3404947

>>3404861
Don't read Keats. He's awful.

>> No.3404977 [DELETED] 

>>3404844
Wise Men In Their Bad Hours by Robinson Jeffers
Wise men in their bad hours have envied
The little people making merry like grasshoppers
In spots of sunlight, hardly thinking
Backward but never forward, and if they somehow
Take hold upon the future they do it
Half asleep, with the tools of generation
Foolishly reduplicating
Folly in thirty-year periods; the eat and laugh too,
Groan against labors, wars and partings,
Dance, talk, dress and undress; wise men have pretended
The summer insects enviable;
One must indulge the wise in moments of mockery.
Strength and desire possess the future,
The breed of the grasshopper shrills, "What does the future
Matter, we shall be dead?" Ah, grasshoppers,
Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made
Something more equal to the centuries
Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.
The mountains are dead stone, the people
Admire or hate their stature, their insolent quietness,
The mountains are not softened nor troubled
And a few dead men's thoughts have the same temper.

>> No.3404988

>>3404922
Isn't that mostly about writing poetry?

>> No.3405731

John Berryman
Frank O'Hara
Allen Ginsberg

The 2deep4u army and the holy trinity of poetry.

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>>3404861

>implying reading poetry he won't understand in the slightest is going to get him into poetry.

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3405794

>reading poetry
gay

>> No.3405814

I'm so OP. American High Schools force poetry like it's some sort of mathematical equation. They care more about your ability to find end rhymes and shit than your ability to analyze the poem itself. And if they ask you to do that, it's usually just the way they want you to do it.

>> No.3405818

>>3405814
correction:
>i'm so SORRY OP

>> No.3405840

>>3405818
What are you talking about?

>> No.3405850

>>3405840
I meant to say I'm so sorry, OP. But I accidentally omitted the "sorry".

I was expressing my feels for you. I remember high school poetry being such a pain. I understand why someone would be turned off of it because of that.

>> No.3405874

Charles Bukowski is the kind of stuff you should read. they won"t teach it in school.

>> No.3405876

>>3405850
Oh. Well thanks. I hope you get laid tonight.

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>>3405876