/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5366921]

I am a sucker for really beautifully written simple phrases which carry a lot of emotion and imagery. Reading things like that are pure poetry to me. Examples would include:

Home, sweet home. Something in the night felt like a door had been opened, an echo of the past, an old monster snapping its eyes open in the depths of my brain. Closing your eyes forces you to look at the darkness inside.
― Sam Lake, writer of the Max Payne games

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Do you know any novels or authors or even poetry that carries a similar style of really well phrased descriptions?
I don't really know any english poetry so if you know some poems that fit my need, please throw me a bone. :)

[Anonymous No.5367312]

>movie set in the 20s
>rap music

[Anonymous No.5367322]

>>5366921
i bet you love peer reviewing in your creative writing class, don't you.

>a sucker for really beautifully written simple phrases which carry a lot of emotion and imagery. Reading things like that are pure poetry to me.

put your clit back in your pants

[Anonymous No.5367338]

>examples are Max Payne and The Great Gatsby
are you 14

[Anonymous No.5367340]

Try to tap out the rhythm of those sentences. It's not perfect, but you'll find they almost follow a beat. You can get into a kind of synchronization while reading them.

I've found that this 'rhythm' is the mark of good prose. Whether the passage uses big words or small ones, they have that cadence you can pick up on. Of course, to write such things, a person needs to have a large vocabulary, but also the innate sense of language to know how words fit together.

Read Nabokov. "Lolita" and "Pale Fire."

[Jude Thaddeus !SX.Jipgvhc No.5367341]

Why does Fitzgerald criticize "flabby impressionability" in the first chapter of that book when sentences like, "In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars", are exactly that?

[Anonymous No.5367350]

>>5367312
>he doesn't realise that using modern music was a way to enable us to immerse ourselves in the 20s party culture, as jazz would seem too tame for modern standards

[Anonymous No.5367357]

>>5366921
the gatsby quote is nice and evocative and glittering
the max payne one is tryhard and dumb

[Jude Thaddeus !SX.Jipgvhc No.5367361]

>>5367357
>the gatsby quote is nice and evocative and glittering

it's faggoty, I mean, it's mawkish, I mean, it's cheesy.

[Anonymous No.5367366]

>>5367341
Fitzgerald is not the narrator. Nick is not incapable of being hypocritical.

[Anonymous No.5367373]

>>5366921
Everything Hermann Hesse ever did. Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Demian, Beneath The Wheel, it's all got what you're looking for.

[Jude Thaddeus !SX.Jipgvhc No.5367374]

Great Hector first amidst both armies broke
The solemn silence, and their powers bespoke:

"Hear, all ye Trojan, all ye Grecian bands,
What my soul prompts, and what some god commands.
Great Jove, averse our warfare to compose,
O'erwhelms the nations with new toils and woes;
War with a fiercer tide once more returns,
Till Ilion falls, or till yon navy burns.
You then, O princes of the Greeks! appear;
'Tis Hector speaks, and calls the gods to hear:
From all your troops select the boldest knight,
And him, the boldest, Hector dares to fight.
Here if I fall, by chance of battle slain,
Be his my spoil, and his these arms remain;
But let my body, to my friends return'd,
By Trojan hands and Trojan flames be burn'd.
And if Apollo, in whose aid I trust,
Shall stretch your daring champion in the dust;
If mine the glory to despoil the foe;
On Phoebus' temple I'll his arms bestow:
The breathless carcase to your navy sent,
Greece on the shore shall raise a monument;
Which when some future mariner surveys,
Wash'd by broad Hellespont's resounding seas,
Thus shall he say, 'A valiant Greek lies there,
By Hector slain, the mighty man of war,'
The stone shall tell your vanquish'd hero's name.
And distant ages learn the victor's fame."

This fierce defiance Greece astonish'd heard,
Blush'd to refuse, and to accept it fear'd.

[Jude Thaddeus !SX.Jipgvhc No.5367379]

>>5367366
cheap trick

[Anonymous No.5367398]

>>5367350
yeah bro because when i think about the prohibition era i think about flux pavilion's i cant stop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT16CncS8I8

[Anonymous No.5367411]

>>5367340
>a mark of good prose
>max payne

[Anonymous No.5367444]

>>5367374
cool nursery rhyme dude