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Favorite poet thread? I'll start

>> No.6470106
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>>6470092

>> No.6470107

Poetry is a farce.

>> No.6470108

Stay Robert Frosty friends

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>>6470092
+1

>> No.6470116
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kharms the charmer

>> No.6470122

>>6470092
>>6470114
Eliot is the love of my life. Do you ever feel sad that you'll never be able to mirror his success, his depth?

>> No.6470126

Probably Keats, or maybe Yeats

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>>6470122
No, I am simply grateful to witness his.

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>> No.6470147

>>6470144
Aristotle wasn't a poet.

>> No.6470157

>all dead white males

>> No.6470163

>>6470157
Don't call men "males" it's dehumanizing and objectifying

>> No.6470174

>>6470163

oh i like this

>> No.6470301

>>6470163
privledge: check'd

>> No.6470793

Rather than starting a new thread, I just started reading poetry for the first time since school (I'm 26 now) and wondered if I was missing something.

I'm reading a small collection of Gerard Manley Hopkins' work and feel a bit lost. It's all very nicely written and the imagery and use of language isnreally enjoyable but I don't know of I'm trying to find meaning where there isn't any or completely missing all meaning.

Is there any general advice for reading poetry other than, presumably, take your time?

>> No.6470799

Georg Heym

>> No.6470805

Guy Viarre

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Vigny

>> No.6470929

What a shit thread

>> No.6471048

HEY LET'S POST PICTURES OF POETS INSTEAD OF POSTING THEIR FUCKING POEMS BECAUSE RECOGNIZING THEIR FACES IS WHAT'S IMPORTANT

>> No.6471053

>>6470793
ANYBODY? Sorry for trying to inject conversation in to a thread.

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>>6471053
>>6471048
FUCK YOU MORE PICTURES OF POETS!!!!

YOU DON'T LIKE IT EAT A DICK

>> No.6471060

>>6470122
It's kinda depressing when you read biographies of famous authors such as Eliot and there is almost nothing exceptional about them. The guy was like pretty average, worked hard got into harvard. Struggled a bit, then worked harder turned it around, then went to the uk and became a banker. And then he somehow churned out The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and it just went from there.

>> No.6471066

>>6471060
You should understand that biographies are basically scrapped together by someone who can hardly be said was close to the person in question, and that life is filled with so much more than what's recorded in books.

>> No.6471068

>>6471066
I think I get your point but it's not as if the biographer doesn't take the information and stories from people who were close to Eliot and knew him and so on. It's not like they just write fanfiction about his life.

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>> No.6471077
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OSSIAN
S
S
I
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Alexander Pope

>> No.6471100

>>6471068
My big point is, you'll never actually know that persons life, just things that happened to them.

>> No.6471101

>>6470793
>>6471053
Depends on what you're expecting from reading poetry.
For me it's about reading poetry subjectively, and enjoying it, if it strikes me. Depends on the mood too.
Or you can analyse it, line by line, word by word.
And, starting with Hopkins, maybe not the best idea. Honestly, I think his poetry was some of the hardest to go through, because of so much going on (and really lot on the "formal side" of poems)
I read him and I can really enjoy poems like The Leaden Echo & The Golden Echo, but others not so much, cant tell why. Well, maybe I can enjoy reading by one, not by whole book.

tl; dr, read more and try to find more poets, and you will find what really suits you.

>> No.6471102

>>6471100
Yeah no shit, welcome to history. Doesn't change the fact that some "lesser" poets have had more interesting lives than some "major" ones.

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Pushkin

>> No.6471112

>>6471101
Thanks. I am reading those Penguin Black Classics in order so that's why I'm reading him.

I was given Sylvia Plath's complete works for Christmas for some reason (genuinely no idea why). Would you say she's more accessible?

I'm enjoying what I can grasp of Hopkins, I just fear I'm missing out.

Any simple poets you'd recommend?

>> No.6471115

Y E A T S
E
A
T
S

>> No.6471119

>>6471102
Wouldnt you think there’s a little more to a person than "something cool happening" to them? Perhaps insights developed through simpler moments in life that affect their entire being? There are plenty of people living things you can only imagine, but carry little insight if at all.

Just saying, dont get caught up in the face value of things. Especially someones life. You really don't know how they reached the knowledge they deliver, which, in terms of art, is a little more important than whatever is written about them in some book.

>> No.6471124

>>6471112
Sylvia is great, but, at least speaking of poems from Ariel, it is better to know her life (and maybe read The Bell Jar which I enjoyed pretty much).
I'm not much educated in anglo-american poetry, since it's not my first language. But I really like Robert Creeley, W.C. Williams. Or maybe go for some romantics...

Are you one of those who does not want to read translated poetry?

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Ovid

>> No.6471138

>>6471111

My nigga. I'm actually reading Eugene Oneguin right now. The translation's good but you can tell it's on another level entirely in its original russian

>> No.6471151

if science discovers the real nature of laugh, love, beauty, and that shit, poetry will have no meaning because poetry always thought those things were "special" and "mysterious".
random thought.

>> No.6471155

les murrary

>> No.6471160

>>6471138
Totally. Have you read Ruslan and Ludmila? That's my favorite epic that he did, but his love poetry is good too.

>> No.6471161

>>6471151
More like the arts will be held with much more reverence than before.

>> No.6471210

Wallace Stevens
Philip Larkin

>> No.6473147

>>6471124
Thanks.

I will read The Bell Jar and her journals before her poetry then.

I'm not against translated poetry, but it's not my preference. Sort of like how I refuse to watch dubbed films.

>> No.6473190

Housman.

And if you cannot recite poems of your favourite poet, you can't pretend to like him too much.

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>>6471059

“Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?”

>> No.6473231

Except the german ones I really like, because it's my native language I really dig this one by Ron Padgett:

"I don't know
I may not be much
Be a mess
Personality no good
All surface no inner strength
Poetry not any good
This poem not any good
I might die an old man
Scribbler of trash
Forgotten paper-scratcher
But I'll tell you this
I really love to lay around on my ass
Totally watching television"

This is my kind of poetry, if anyone could please recomend my something like that. Except Bukowski, I already know and like a fair share of his poems.

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>>6473231

>> No.6473241

Hölderlin
And Goethe

>> No.6473288

I'm loving Spenser at the moment

>> No.6473293

>>6470092
>choosing eliot
>choosing eliot when ezra preformed the ceaserean operation
>disappointment and throes

>> No.6473294

>>6470157
That's because 95% of great books were written by them. Women and darkues haven't pulled their weight. Were currently debating whether they can. Its looking like a "no" to me.

>> No.6473313

>>6470092
I am a poet and yet ignorant of this fact

>> No.6473363

Kipling

>> No.6473365

They scrub these walls to silence my pen,
but the shithouse poet strikes again.

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Drop by caustic drop.

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Nobody's full body of work is as uplifting to me as Maya's.

>> No.6474521

>>6473147

The Bell Jar is a nice and easy read, it really conveys Plath's thoughts and ideas well. Would definitely recommend

>> No.6474525

>>6470092
>no Wordsworth in here

What the fuck.

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So many to choose, but it will always be Shelley.