This is the greatest poem of the 19th century by far. As an Acadian, this shit makes a man weep. I'll admit, poetry was never my main thing, I always was a Victorian novel kind of guy, but I've recently tries to get into poetry and holy hell this is legitimately sublime. Poetry of this sort truly is dead in the modern world.
Meh
>>23823042whats a hoar
>>23823069Wrong
>doesnt rhymeNot a poem, sorry
>>23823127Ok faggot
>>23823201>doesnt rhymeNot an insult, sorry. Try harder
>>23823208It is an insult. You take nigger cock up your ass and I'm making fun of you for it.
>>23823042I'll take a look at this. I just think "accents disconsolate" is awkward but the narrative he seems to be entering in the second stanza is effective.>>23823117Old
>>23823223>hurr durr nigger cockYeah okay your opinion on everything artistic is completely worthless
>>23823268Longfellow is underrated these days, but it's understandable why he doesn't have the high status he once had. He gets a bit wearying after a while, just page after page of that trochaic rhythm 'tumpty tumpty tumpty tumpty'. He's good at the narrative aspect, you never get bored with the story, but he's not quite a poet at the level of a Milton or a Spenser to keep you interested in the language, nor as a deep thinker.Some of his shorter lyrical stuff is great,
>greatest poem of the 19th centuryyeah, not for menot even close
>>23823042I like the meter
>>23823042Kubla Khan is better
Komm in das totgesagte park und schau
>>23823042>I always was a Victorian novel kind of guy, but I've recently tries to get into poetryYou're like me, I also tried to start writing poetry as well as a means to empty my head from ideas that run there 24/7. Since you seem to like victorian writing do you have more suggestions on where to start with poetry?
>>23823412That's tied for my favorite.
>>23823042Tennyson’s In Memoriam gets no love?
>>23823042Longfellow's long poems are all incredible. Read The Saga of King Olaf as well if you haven't yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9aV4y26Fv4
Love Longfellow, love nature
>>23823042reads like chatGPT to me
I stood upon the hills, when heaven's wide archWas glorious with the sun's returning march,And woods were brightened, and soft galesWent forth to kiss the sun-clad vales.The clouds were far beneath me; bathed in light,They gathered midway round the wooded height,And, in their fading glory, shoneLike hosts in battle overthrown.As many a pinnacle, with shifting glance.Through the gray mist thrust up its shattered lance,And rocking on the cliff was leftThe dark pine blasted, bare, and cleft.The veil of cloud was lifted, and belowGlowed the rich valley, and the river's flowWas darkened by the forest's shade,Or glistened in the white cascade;Where upward, in the mellow blush of day,The noisy bittern wheeled his spiral way. I heard the distant waters dash,I saw the current whirl and flash,And richly, by the blue lake's silver beach,The woods were bending with a silent reach.Then o'er the vale, with gentle swell,The music of the village bellCame sweetly to the echo-giving hills;And the wild horn, whose voice the woodland fills,Was ringing to the merry shout,That faint and far the glen sent out,Where, answering to the sudden shot, thin smoke,Through thick-leaved branches, from the dingle broke. If thou art worn and hard besetWith sorrows, that thou wouldst forget,If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keepThy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep,Go to the woods and hills! No tearsDim the sweet look that Nature wears.
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Rip Minnehaha
>>23823042that's a 7/10 poem at best, read more poetry
>>23826045farewell
