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Do any /lit/erates like poetry?

>favourite poem
>author
>when it was written
>reason
>if you can, a link to a reading of it.

mine

>Kubla Khan
>Samuel Taylor Coleridge
>1797
>Explores the concept of the creativity and ideas that drugs can give you but the downside to them. Shittiest explanation ever.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8mqHCgVdZc

>> No.7188591

>There Will Come Soft Rains
>Sara Teasdale
>1920

Can't find a decent reading of it though.

>> No.7188631

>A Boat Beneath A Sunny Sky
>Lewis Carroll
>An acrostic remembering the child he loves, and the bitter realization that she has to grow up in the end (no pedo)
>www.google.com

>> No.7188683

>Tres cientos sesenta y cinco y un 366 de onces
>Rodrigo Lira
>around the late 70's early 80's
>It's like a great realisation of his poetry, a poetry which developed a great use of different linguistic codes, intertextuality and and just text in general.A poetry which often includes sociol and ecological critique and humour, even in the darkest situations, such as the central theme of this piece, suicide.
>no sorry, but he read others of his https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vytgHYFkHqw

>> No.7189657

>>7188578
yeah I like poetry but what are you trying to accomplish with this thread

>> No.7189687

>>7188578
>The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
>T.S. Eliot
>1915
>Beautiful, striking imagery and language mixed with insecurities I've known way too well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAO3QTU4PzY

>> No.7189970

>>7188578

>favourite poem

1) To his Watch
2) The Church

>author

1) GM Hopkins
2) G Herbert

>when it was written

1) near his death, probably 1880s
2) probably 1640ish?

>reason

Ive dozens of pages of notes on both, can't post

>if you can, a link to a reading of it.

no