/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4737490]

How do I into poetry?

[Anonymous No.4737501]

Reading it? google.
Writing it? Commit yourself to irrelevance and obscurity. Then just type up all your self-obsessed formless ramblings and complain about lack of sales and readers.

[Anonymous No.4737564]

>>4737501
I meant reading. And what should i look up? The vast amount of poetry all over the internet is a little intimidating to me because i don't know where to start.

[Anonymous No.4738317]

In general I enjoy anything that comes from Rilke, Shelly, Neruda, Pushkin and R. Tagore so naturally I'd recommend anything from them.

However, there are plenty of other poems I enjoy by other writers and since poetry, at least I find it to be so, is something that you have to connect with on an intimate level to understand and enjoy, you'll have to read as much as you can by as many authors as you can to find "good" poetry you like.

Just try a site like poemhunter.c om

[Anonymous No.4738346]

start with the greeks

[Anonymous No.4738355]

>>4738346
>translated poetry

[Anonymous No.4738363]

>>4737490
Into the way you feel.

[Anonymous No.4738364]

Step 1: Learn Spanish
Step 2: Enjoy the best poetry the world has to offer.

[Anonymous No.4738366]

>>4738364
>Step 1: Learn Greek
>Step 2: Enjoy the best poetry the world has to offer.
ft4u

[Anonymous No.4738373]

Wouldn't poetry in latin be more expressive than any other romance language

[Anonymous No.4738379]

>>4738364

Pretty much.
I've yet to read a translation of St. John of the Cross that wasn't pigshit.

[Anonymous No.4738393]

>>4738366
>Step 1: Learn Spanish.
>Step 2: Enjoy the best poetry the world has to offer.
ft4u

[Anonymous No.4738415]

>>4738393
>Step 1: Learn Spanish.
>Step 2: Enjoy the best pussy the world has to offer.
ft4u