/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4999246]

Hey /lit/, who's your favorite poet?

[Anonymous No.4999254]

I think Mallarmé is the most patrician, yet I prefer Rimbaud.

[Anonymous No.4999256]

>>4999246
Not to be generic /lit/ or anything but yeah, Rimbaud.

[Anonymous No.4999258]

[Anonymous No.4999261]

>>4999254
>pleb references
>>/b/

[Anonymous No.4999262]

>>4999254
>You will never pound Rimbaud's tight boypussy

[Anonymous No.4999265]

>>4999262
Oscar Wilde wrote some pretty rad sonnets.

[Anonymous No.4999299]

Blake is the best. Also Dylan Thomas is a personal favorite.

[Anonymous No.4999304]

>tfw no green fairy

[Anonymous No.4999308]

No Basho or Rumi? For shame!

[Anonymous No.4999310]

>>4999308
>not ikkyu

[Anonymous No.4999314]

>>4999299
William Blake is always a load of fun.

[Anonymous No.4999317]

>>4999310
>Yehe'sgudtoo.

[Anonymous No.4999326]

>>4999246
Also, John Gould Fletcher anyone?

[Anonymous No.4999330]

>>4999246

My personal favorite is ezra pound, but it's hard for me to ignore milton or blake

[Anonymous No.4999340]

Blake

[Anonymous No.4999341]

>>4999330
You can't read him!! he was a fascist or whatevssz!!!

[Sebastian Cuello No.4999352]

Federico García Lorca

[Anonymous No.4999357]

IL poeta.

[Anonymous No.4999358]

>>4999299
the fuck? are you me? when did I post that?

[Anonymous No.4999360]

>>4999341

You seem to hate fascists
What a racist. Pound's the best

[Anonymous No.4999380]

>>4999341
You can read fascists, but for every ten words you read, you have to write a 15-page pontificating blog post about how we must learn to stoically separate the author from their woeful unfortunate tragic ill-advised silly unwise awful terrible tragic unfortunate connection to such a silly bad terrible unfortunate tragic evil despicable have I said enough "I think Nazis are bad!" status quo affirming shibboleths yet gay dumb bad not good political movement.

[Anonymous No.4999391]

>>4999380

Phew! What a warm time you were in there

[Anonymous No.4999528]

>>4999304
I'm not a big fan of absinthe, but I love all the glassware and accoutrement that go along with it.

[Anonymous No.4999531]

canadian poetry anyone?

al purdy, irving layton, etc.

[Anonymous No.4999537]

>>4999357
I feel like I'm missing out by reading him in English. Still enjoying the hell out of it though. The Divine Comedy that is.

[Anonymous No.4999543]

shakespeare

[Anonymous No.4999575]

>>4999304
I've got five bottles of absinthe currently. Sorry for your unfortunate position.

[Tess No.4999577]

Yeats

[Anonymous No.4999583]

>>4999304
>Artificially colored
Into the trash it goes.

[Anonymous No.4999586]

Billy Collins because I'm pleb af and don't want poetry that makes me feel dumb

[Anonymous No.4999589]

>>4999586
I hope you're joking. There's lots of accessible poetry that's better than Billy Collins.

[Anonymous No.4999591]

Marianne Moore master race.

[Anonymous No.4999592]

>>4999589
Such as?

[Anonymous No.4999602]

>>4999246

What’s about the absinthe hallucinations? Since my teenage years, when I was deep into Rimbaud and Baudelaire I was intrigued by this beverage, and managed to bought some here on my country. However the only effect that I perceived was extreme drunkenness (due to the high alcohol concentration): nothing different than drinking whisky, for example.

Was the absinthe of that time somehow different? Did they mix the thing with other ingredients that make hallucinations really happened? Or this is just a legend.

[Anonymous No.4999611]

>>4999246
paul celan

[Anonymous No.4999615]

>>4999602
Way back when it was made with wormwood, which provides the hallucinogenic element to the drink. Nearly all absinthe nowadays is made without it. A guy in a liquor shop in Amsterdam claimed to have some that had wormwood in it. I tried it, but it didn't really do much for me.


Eh, why fuck around with expensive liquor. You can get a DXM high for like $4, the future is now.

[Anonymous No.4999623]

>>4999602
Yes. It had either mugwort or wormwood in it that caused the hallucinations but I can't remember which but most absinthe no longer has it/

[Anonymous No.4999642]

>>4999615
>wormwood, which provides the hallucinogenic element to the drink

It doesn't. Absinthe was as little a psychedelic then as it is now.

[Anonymous No.4999649]

>>4999615
Or you could just buy some vodka and wormwood and make a tincture.
>>4999642
Top pleb.

[Anonymous No.4999652]

>>4999615
No it is still made with wormwood. It has to be made with the Trinity (anise, fennel, and wormwood) to be absinthe. The hallucinations were myth of thesmear campaign by the wine industry and temperance movements. Phylloxerra had damaged the wine industry and absinthe became the drink of choice in France. It was drunk in bistros and cafés so the whole trip ballz thing is bs. Any hallucinations came from inferior rotgut absinthes that used harsh chemicals for coloring...and chronic alcoholism.
Go to the wormwood societies website for more info on absinthe.

[Anonymous No.4999667]

>>4999649
I would pay to see someone like you pretend to be tripping on a completely non-psychoactive compound when you're really just drunk and gullible

[Anonymous No.4999676]

>>4999667
To quote a friend "Drinking absinthe to see the Green Fairy is like drinking coffee to see Juan Valdez."

[Anonymous No.4999735]

>>4999246
angus dagdasson

[Anonymous No.4999845]

>>4999615
Absinthe would have killed you from alcohol poisoning before you would receive any sort of hallucinogenic effect.

[Anonymous No.4999889]

>>4999246
Wallace Stevens, possibly.

[Anonymous No.4999919]

Housman

[Anonymous No.4999931]

>>4999246
I'm working o learning french better to read rimbaud, hugo so on. In english it would be Robert Browning.

[Anonymous No.4999937]

Sophocles if that counts
As for small poems probably Shakespeare, I mean...

[Anonymous No.5000119]

Lin, Roggenbuck, Ezra Pound, and Shelley as my token Romantic.

[Anonymous No.5000122]

>>4999258
Didn't know the author and I actually really liked the poem.
Moments like this are the reason I visit /lit/. Thanks for the gem, based anon.

One of my favourite poets is Ariel Petrocelli, but I don't think any translations into English exist. Hell, it's even hard to find it here, and I'm living in the country that saw him borne and die.

(...)
por el viento de los valles
la nieve cantó su paso
y en su manto de frío dejó
a su lobo en aullido de tormentas
(...)

thru the valley winds
the snow sung it's passing
and on its cold mantle it bequeathed
to the wolf the howl of the gale

One of the sections most cherished by me, taken from his poem Pastorcita Perdida.

[Anonymous No.5000130]

ee cummings or T.S. Eliot, but I haven't delved deeply into the world of poetry so I'm sure I'd find somebody I enjoy more. Looking for recs.

[Anonymous No.5000144]

I'm a Yeatsfag myself.

>tfw you're french yet french poetry doesn't do it for you

It's just too goddamn flowery

[Anonymous No.5000146]

>>5000130
you may like hart crane, rilke, browning, pound

[Anonymous No.5000171]

>>5000146

preciate it

[Anonymous No.5000352]

Browning, Kipling and Poe.
>inb4 pleb

[Anonymous No.5000393]

>>5000352
nerd
what are your favorite poems by browning? elizabeth or robert?

[Anonymous No.5000402]

Blake, Poe, Shelley, and Shakespeare.

[Anonymous No.5000405]

>>5000402
Fuck. And Dante. How the hell did I forget that? The Divine Comedy is my shit.

[Anonymous No.5000692]

>>5000393
Robert. Porphyria's lover is my favorite.

[Anonymous No.5000706]

>>5000692
Brings me back to my Poetry and Drama class. Damn I miss Uni.

[Anonymous No.5000853]

>ctrl+f "Robinson Jeffers"
>0 results
>mf

[Anonymous No.5000916]

>>4999246
Tennyson. Though Yeats, Wordsworth and Brooke get honourable mentions. Ulysses is Tennyson's best in my most humble opinion

[Anonymous No.5000919]

i like Bukowski because he makes me feel ok about drinking a lot

[Anonymous No.5000926]

Keats, Blake, Shelley, Byron, notice a pattern?

Also I do like Dickinson. Is she lit approved or am I a pleb?

[Anonymous No.5000963]

>>5000926

Dickinson is high tier.

[Anonymous No.5000976]

>>5000963
She just has those killer 2-4 line poems, ha they just rock! I love reading her on the subway.

[Anonymous No.5000996]

>me
>myself
>I

because write more poetry faggots.

[Anonymous No.5001026]

>>4999575
>>4999304
>>4999528

Absinthe sucks. I don't care if it's the thujone heavy junk from Czechoslovakia or the bullshit you can buy in America. Modern Absinthe will not make you hallucinate, even a lot of the shit they write about back in the day, especially if they were purchasing mass produced absinthe, was mainly lore, and misinformation. It was the homebrew, the fucked up mixture of chemicals that bad brewers used, and was just bad for you, MIGHT do something. But I'm sure even this was rare. Poets use romantic language, they magnify experience, sometimes to the point of exaggeration. There are thousands of poems about the divine attributes of whisky, beer and even tobacco to the point where they sounds like some extreme, unearthly intoxicants. Absinthe gets your drunk, nothing else.

[Anonymous No.5001032]

Probably Vergil because he is so honest and insightful and still humble.

Lately I've been getting more into Catullus. Very funny and masterfully crafted poetry.

[Anonymous No.5001037]

>>5001026
So it does half of what you look for in a liquor, and if you like aniseed it does the other half.

Sounds fine to me.

[Anonymous No.5001049]

>>5001026
It also tastes good and has a rich history but you don't want to hear that do you?

[Anonymous No.5001063]

Fernando Pessoa, of course.

Alberto Caeiro, specially.

[Twilltone No.5001096]

Anna Akhmatova - sad stuff, but incredibly well done.

[Anonymous No.5001121]

>>5001049
I personally don't like the taste, but if that's your thing that's cool. I am basically presupposing, since this is a poetry thread on /lit/, that most of the people here who are touting it like it for those non-existent stupid reasons I listen above. I could be wrong. Simply drinking it for it's history just seems "fedora classy" to me, and it's history is half wrong to begin with due to that false lore. I don't wanna come across rude, I just can't understand it and think it's kinda silly.

[Anonymous No.5003265]

>>4999537
Even being one of the first important poet using the italian language in middle age (and I mean among the "famous" like Petrarca, Boccaccio, Pulci, Boiardo and Ariosto) he surprisingly is the easiest to read and the Divine Comedy itself is not so hard as people usually says. I even prefer the Vita Nova to Petrarca's canzoniere.

[Anonymous No.5003301]

>>5000122
That's pretty nice. I should read more Spanish.

I know very little of poetry, so my favourite is still Baudelaire. And Dante, but I can't read him in the original, so that barely counts.

>>5000144
Try Lautréamont perhaps, or some twentieth century poet.

[Anonymous No.5003315]

>>4999246
James Franco.

[Anonymous No.5003329]

>>4999265
Oscar Wilde was a fucking badass.

[Anonymous No.5003350]

>>4999591
>Marianne Moore
My nigga.

I'm a big fan of WH Auden

[Anonymous No.5003353]

>>4999352
dis nigga right here

[Anonymous No.5003375]

>>5001026
So? I drink it because it tastes good and gets me drunk.

[Anonymous No.5003593]

Pessoa

[Anonymous No.5003638]

>>4999246
Leonard Cohen
W.H. Auden
Rudyard Kipling
Wordsworth
Shelley
T.S. Eliot
John Clare

[Anonymous No.5004908]

Absinthe is cool, its just that you shouldn't expect it to give you hallucinations

Also lets not forget that these people (French decadents/aesthetes) were usually drinking AND doing other drugs like laudanum and hashish. They were constantly getting fucked up. Throw some good old syphilis in there for good measure and you have a recipe for a myth.

[Anonymous No.5005076]

Donne, Keats, WH Auden

[Anonymous No.5005998]

Gerald Manley Hopkins

[Anonymous No.5007043]

Keats, Yeats, Eliot, Baudelaire, Paterson.

[Anonymous No.5007072]

Robert Browning

[Anonymous No.5007189]

>there are people that enjoy american poetry
HOly fuck my sides

[Anonymous No.5007203]

What are some good absinthes for a beginner, fairy lads?

[Anonymous No.5007302]

>>5007189
>he doesn't like bukoffsky

[Anonymous No.5007321]

>>5007189
>stevens
>crane
>whitman
>eliot
>ashbery

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