ok this slaps
you bet your ass it does. wait til you get to Artegall.
>>24094350It caught my attention when I heard there was a character who was an old man in a mountain who talked everyone who went there into suicide and his name was literally Despair. Can any anons confirm this?
>>24094797yes. book I canto IX. the headnote reads:>"His loues and lingage Arthure tells:>the knights knitt friendly bands:>Sir Trevisan flies from Despeyre,>Whom Redcros knight withstands."
>>24094797>>24094833I love that canto. Despair is almost like a proto-existentialist philosopher.
>>24094350weird QR code there
>>24095355And you're almost like a proto intellectual.
>>24095700That’s the best kind of intellectual you can be. Intellectuals became gay and effeminate when they reached their final form in the Enlightenment.
>>24095700insult works better if it's "pseudo" instead of "proto," I think. "almost a proto-intellectual" sounds vaguely complimentary while being mildly condescending. like oh, good for that guy, while he isn't as cultured or well-read as the rest of us, he's just about to try, he's got the mind for it, etc. while "almost like a pseudo-intellectual" really bites, because the entire offensive core of psueddery is tryharding, so if you're so bad at tryharding that you tryhard at tryharding, it's double-pathetic and not at all complimentary even in a backhanded way. but that's just one /lit/izen's opinion
>But ouer all the countrey she did raunge, >To seeke young men, to quench her flaming thrust,>And feed her fancy with delightfull chaunge:>Whom so she fittest finds to serue her lust,>Through her maine strength, in which she most doth trust,>She with her brings into a secret Ile,>Where in eternall bondage dye he must,>Or be the vassall of her pleasures vile,>And in all shamefull sort him selfe with her defile.
>>24096451Reminds me of this one hot bitch I work with
>fairies>queens>slaps
I think faeries are hot. Should I read this one?
>>24094350This language seems hard to follow
>>24097056Alle then dist at yon Anonymous laffeThat wight's scrubbitude was let slippe 'twixt a gaffe
I didn't understand poetry until I read Edmund Spenser. I didn't know the english language could do the things he made it do. I think the form of English we speak is a degenerate version of how it was spoken in his day. Some say if you go back far enough people could almost be said to naturally speak in poetry even in ordinary speech
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>>24097218>Men only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting
>>24094350It's shit. A poem that shouldn't have been preserved by history.
>>24097396write one spenserian stanza
>>24095693I saw those from the other YouTubers maybe they're just tricking me but sometimes I played along.
