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Based poets - Go

>> No.5325499
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5325499

Larkin is a little vulgar for me at times.

>> No.5325514

>>5325499

I think Auden has one of the most interesting faces I have ever seen, like he had a story for every wrinkle

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>>5325499
>mfw wonder if bourgeois vulgarity is truly deserving on the name.

>> No.5325526

>>5325514
I wonder what a blind person feeling his face would think.

Here's a story idea, a blind person feels a person's face and is able to experience each story behind the wrinkle. It'd be a short story collection ultimately culminating in an intricate telling of the person's life

>> No.5325529
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5325529

He had one great poem - "Dulce Et Decorum Est"
but damn what a poem

>> No.5325531

>>5325451
Nabokov wasn't a poet.

>> No.5325532

>>5325451
Andre Breton wrote some of the most awe-inspiring poems I've ever read. Check him out.

>> No.5325538

>>5325526

Brilliant..... now go write it. Seriously

>> No.5325547

Call he a pleb but nothing fills me up for more feeling than reading some Cummings.

Celan for more heavy, meaningful fare.

Sexton when in that mood.

Elicits pre-wasteland poems pretty much made me fall in love with poetry for a bit. I remember reading prufrock and the hollow men dozens of times and chanting lines to myself throughout the day.

>> No.5325548

>>5325531

That is Philip Larkin dude. The two do look very similar though

>> No.5325555

>>5325538
Seconded. Bonus points if the stories belong to Auden but the face, in the end, doesn't.

>> No.5325559
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>>5325547

>Celan

>> No.5325569

>>5325555

It would be like Bradbury's "Illustrated Man" but better

>> No.5325573
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5325573

I haven't read as much poetry as I want to, but I think W.S. Merwin is great. Specifically The Carriers of Ladders, but The Lice is good too. His books around that time aren't that great, but from The Rain In the Trees and onward all sort of morph into a different style and become great. Recommend me some poets.

>> No.5325574

>>5325538
I feel like it'd be difficult to write well. The handling of the blind person as they felt the face would be the toughest part. It would be really easy to get carried away and overly sentimental or new-agey.

Plus Bradbury sort of did the same thing with The Illustrated man, except it was stories of the tattoos on the man and not really about his own life.

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>>5325548

>> No.5325595
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>>5325574

>> No.5325603
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Mark Strand anyone?

>> No.5325641

>>5325582

Eerie. I bet they would have hated each other if they had met

>Nabokov: Larkin is a terrible, infantile writer obsessed with the loss of his childhood. That isn't profundity, that is a psychological condition

>Larkin: I met a novelist yesterday,
but he turned out to be straw
and empty hay

>> No.5325685
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5325685

>mfw butterfly hasn't posted in a thread yet

>> No.5325738
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5325738

Possibly the most underrated Victorian poet.

>> No.5325744

walt whitman is the most 100% based poet of all time y'all are jokesters

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>>5325744
>mfw I saw Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.

>> No.5325754

>>5325738

Hell yeah! I've got "The Ring and the Book" on my shelf

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>> No.5325778
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>>5325744

Walt Whitman is William Blake lite you trick ass mark. You mark ass trick.

>> No.5325782

>>5325573
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLjU5a_Xx0c
;_; this will forever make me ashamed of myself.

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>>5325751

>> No.5325799
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>>5325778

>> No.5325802
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>>5325451
It's a shame they only put one of Ransom's poems into the anthologies.

>> No.5325806

>>5325782

Did you make this? Not that bad, the voice is perfect

>> No.5325861

>>5325738
Pound faced off with Browning, but I don't know who won.

>> No.5325874

>>5325782

Yeah.

Hardcore.

Well done, thank you.

>> No.5325882

>>5325547
>Sexton when in that mood.

Based anon.

>> No.5326138

>>5325595

I know this is just one of those quotes used to justify ones inadequacies, but thanks anon.

I'm going to at least try to write my facial lines story.

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>>5326138

You write it; we'll read it.

>justify ones inadequacies

Screw off with the predictions pal, write what you know.

You write it, we'll read it. We may tear it apart, but that's just how we roll, and it's meant to help overall, greater chan culture be damned.

>> No.5326168

>>5326138

Good luck, fellow /lit/izen

>> No.5326226
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5326226

Paul Bowles. Has nobody else here read him? I've never seen him discussed.

>> No.5326254
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5326254

>Paul Bowles never discussed?

And never will.

This belongs to the early days, an accord of minds of similar disposition.

You might fan the flames of recognition in spite of all that came before, yet ...

Beware.

We are watching.

>> No.5326257

>>5326226
Never actually read his poetry, just some of his novels and travel books. He composed as well so he was obviously a busy guy.

>> No.5326271
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5326271

bite me

>> No.5326276

>>5326254
wat

>> No.5326288

>>5326276

Response noted; try again.

Try not a meme.

>> No.5326292

"his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine"

>> No.5326299

Wallace Stevens. Not only an outstanding poet, he also knocked Hemmmingway on his ass with a punch.

>> No.5326305

>>5326226

haven't seen you post in a while. all these gay new tripfags make me nostalgic for the old days if that's even possible.

>> No.5326308

>>5326292

The lips they
know not again
the heart that falters
and bleeds thin.

Response noted; try again.

>> No.5326310

>>5326305
I know at least half of the old posters are still around to some extent, but choose to lurk instead
brownbear pls come back ;_;

>> No.5326330

Sir Walter Raleigh

>> No.5326344

>>5326330

Lacking soundness,
you vary by esteeming;
striving at profoundness,
and standing but on seeming.

Response noted; try again.

>> No.5326346

>>5326344
banal words
by banal men
make a banal minute
seem a banal ten

>> No.5326350

>>5326346

Very nice.

Thank you, but not fulfilling. I did not suspect what could be would be.

We, anon, are away and good day.

>> No.5326770

>>5325738
I wouldn't say underrated, he's just a little too dense and disorientating for most.

>> No.5326796
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>>5325451
>"Here is unfenced existence:
Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach."

>> No.5326800

>>5325738
In England he is widely studied ages 15 and up. Most are familiar with My Last Duchess.

>> No.5326944
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There are people here who haven't read Gitanjali.

>> No.5327107

>>5326299
I thought it was the other way around, coulda sworn Hemingway wrote that Stevens "made a pleasing sound" when he hit the ground or something.