What's your favorite contemporary poem, anon? You do read poetry, right?
>>24113467Poetry is an outdated artform and has been since the invention of Rock & Roll in the 1950s.
>>24113467imagine reading poetry from someone with a 21st century education. absolute dog shit.
>I was born in le wrong generationFor me, it's Alice OswaldQuick moving goddess of the rainbowYou whose being is only an afterglow of a passing-throughPut your handsPut your heaven-taken shape downOn the ground. Now. AnywhereLike a bent- down bough of nothingA bridge built out of the linked cells of thin airAnd let there be instantly in its underlight –At street corners, on swings, out of car windows –A three-moment blessing for all bridgesMay impossible rifts be often delicately crossedBy bridges of two thrown ropes or one dropped plankMay the unfixed forms of water be warily leaned overOn flexible high bridges, huge iron sketches of the mathematics of strainAnd bridges of see-through stone, the living-space of drips and echoesMay two fields be bridged by a stileAnd two hearts by the tilting footbridge of a glanceAnd may I often wake on the broken bridge of a word,Like in the wind the trace of a web. Tethered to nothing
>>24113499This nigga hears Måneskin just dropped a new album and throws his copy of the Iliad to the ground.
Take up the White Man's burden— Send forth the best ye breed—Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need;To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild—Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child.Take up the White Man's burden— In patience to abide,To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride;By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain.To seek another's profit, And work another's gain.
>>24113804Take up the White Man's burden— The savage wars of peace—Fill full the mouth of Famine And bid the sickness cease;And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought,Watch Sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your hopes to nought.Take up the White Man's burden— No tawdry rule of kings,But toil of serf and sweeper— The tale of common things.The ports ye shall not enter, The roads ye shall not tread,Go make them with your living, And mark them with your dead!
>>24113810Take up the White Man's burden— And reap his old reward:The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard—The cry of hosts ye humour (Ah, slowly!) toward the light:—"Why brought ye us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night?"Take up the White Man's burden— Ye dare not stoop to lessNor call too loud on Freedom To cloak your weariness;By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do,The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your Gods and you.
>>24113815Take up the White Man's burden— Have done with childish days—The lightly proffered laurel, The easy, ungrudged praise.Comes now, to search your manhood Through all the thankless years,Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom, The judgment of your peers
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>>24113801>IliadThat like most other great poems was originally sung with an accompanying string instrument.
>>24113467>You do read poetry, right?No.Poetry is the lowest form of art. At least when effort is taken to set it to music it becomes something worthy of praise, but poetry alone is below memes and pop music as far as I am concerned.
>>24114236>can't appreciate the aesthetics of languageYup, pop music and memes are probably more your speed
>>24114484>not talented enough to put your “aesthetics of language” into a coherent novel so you just put it lazily into disjointed paragraphs
>>24114495>continues to prove my point
>>24114508>FaulknerMogged by Twain and James who both thought poetry was schlock.
>>24114516Because they couldn't do it kek
>>24114236>No.>Poetry is the lowest form of art.based
>>24114236it doesn't give you pause that many of the greatest prose writers thought they were inferior to poetry? or maybe you just want to go there by yourself?
>>24113596this is a great poem anon thanks for sharing. the ending couplet is quite striking
>>24114535>Does a appeal to authority give you pauseNo.Also no one I respect holds such a opinion.
>>24113505Imagin thinking poetry depends on education
>>24116347Who do you respect Mr. ESL?
>>24116347Sad to hear you don't know anyone that matters.hoi polloihoi polloi
>>24113467Define "contemporary", please, I don't know what you mean.
