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[Anonymous No.9411948]

How/Where to get into poetry?

preferably some English stuff

[Anonymous No.9411989]

>>9411948

Just read accessible stuff.

Nothing after 1930 unless it's Robert Frost.

Start with Garrison Keillor anthologies.

[Anonymous No.9412056]

>>9411989
This guy? Phrenology tells me he's a fucking weirdo faggit.

[Anonymous No.9412068]

For English start with the Romantics and work your way out from there.

[Anonymous No.9412112]

>>9411948
Just read Spenser's sonnets, if you can't handle them then give up.

[Anonymous No.9412132]

>>9412112
Alright!

[Anonymous No.9412144]

Richard corey
Follow his example

[Anonymous No.9412445]

>>9411948
Start with the basics. I would read : Harry Potter and the sorceres stone

[Anonymous No.9412469]

>>9411948
>Lawrence Felinghetti
>Charles Bukowski
If you're into more modern/accessible

[Anonymous No.9412630]

>>9411948
wordsworth was my first love affair with poetry because he cut through all the modernist abstract nonsense that i was accustomed to. "the solitary reaper" is still one of my favorite short poems.

keats was my second (coleridge was more of a fling). if i were you, i'd read:
>the solitary reaper (out loud)
>rime of the ancient mariner
>ode to a nightingale

all are profound and accessible poems. after those romantics, i got into Donne, Ashberry, William Stafford and Spenser. you'll be able to figure it out after that. caveat lector: YMMV

[Anonymous No.9412633]

>>9411948
Start with rupi kuar

[Anonymous No.9412637]

>>9411948

Start with imagism and go from there.

[Anonymous No.9413945]

>>9412630
What's some good Wordsworth beyond Lyrical Ballads? I read that and was kinda disappointed (the Lucy poems were good though).

[Anonymous No.9413948]

>>9412056
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqieCdlhX9A

[Anonymous No.9413979]

>>9413948
LoL @ this, little snarky phaggott, measure your fucking head with a tape measure and tell me so I can get your brain volume

Mine is 25 inches and according to this calculator http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/geometry-solids/sphere.php that means I have a 263inch volume of brain size.

I'm asking you to measure around your head with a tape measure and tell me the length so I can calculate it.

If your not up to do that then I think that says everything we need to know.

[Anonymous No.9414011]

>>9411948
Start with Shakespeare. Then move on to the Romantics, Chaucer, Whitman, and Yeats. Milton and Donne are great poets but aren't very accessible. As >>9412630 notes, modernist poetry tends to be pretentious drivel (although imo Williams Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens are successful modern poets).

[Anonymous No.9414023]

>>9412637
Be in me as the eternal moods
of the bleak wind, and not
As transient things are—
gaiety of flowers.
Have me in the strong loneliness
of sunless cliffs
And of gray waters.
Let the gods speak softly of us
In days hereafter,
the shadowy flowers of Orcus
Remember thee.

>this is what passed for "clear statement" in 1917
lmao

[Anonymous No.9414030]

>>9414011
Yeah, I'm about to get Shakespeare's Sonnets since I love his plays.

[Anonymous No.9415203]

>>9411948
bump

[Anonymous No.9415247]

>>9411948
This was on the wiki but I have no idea how good it is and frankly, Tupac being on it makes me think it's kind of retarded.

[Anonymous No.9415263]

>>9415247
Armond White likes two Pac and he's GOAT

[Anonymous No.9415622]

>>9413979
You must not be very smart if you seriously believe brain volume has a strong correlation with intelligence since it's been disproved time and again for like 150 years. Go back to the 1840s, dipshit.

[Anonymous No.9415627]

>>9413945
The Prelude (1799 version)

[Anonymous No.9415633]

[Anonymous No.9415668]

Start with Hopkins, then move either to the Romantics or Modernists depending on your taste

[Anonymous No.9416423]

>>9415622
funny cause the 1840s (and before) was when a lot of these guys were writing great poetry you tool. ?O? Coward didn't even give me your head size