>>24852706
It sounds amazing, beautiful and evocative. One doesn't need to fully get all the references to appreciate it.

>>24852706
you are supposed to look them up if you are uneducated

>>24852706
Whoever made that image not only didn't choose the famed pen name used by the writer (Gérard de Nerval), but also misspelled his real name (it's Labrunie actually). What a dumbass.

ARTÉMIS

La Treizième revient… C’est encor la première;
Et c’est toujours la Seule, – ou c’est le seul moment:
Car es-tu Reine, ô Toi! la première ou dernière?
Es-tu Roi, toi le Seul ou le dernier amant?…

Aimez qui vous aima du berceau dans la bière;
Celle que j’aimai seul m’aime encor tendrement:
C’est la Mort – ou la Morte… Ô délice! ô tourment!
La rose qu’elle tient, c’est la Rose trémière.

Sainte napolitaine aux mains pleines de feux,
Rose au coeur violet, fleur de sainte Gudule:
As-tu trouvé ta Croix dans le désert des cieux?

Roses blanches, tombez! vous insultez nos Dieux!
Tombez, fantômes blancs, de votre ciel qui brûle:
– La Sainte de l’Abîme est plus sainte à mes yeux!

>filtered by Nerval
wew lad...

To my modern ear it just sounds so over the top and melodramatic, like some horny teen ranting fast as they can to get laid.

>>24855203
back to your Rupi Kaur then I guess?

>>24855757
Bodied that freak

>>24852706
Bro, I have no idea who or what any of those proper nouns are outside of the greek ones I get from pop culture osmosis, but I still understand this just fine. Are you actually retarded?

Elite education used to be humanities-centric, so all the readers would be expected to get it.

>no one to explain the allusions in the poem has appeared yet
/lit/ is truly dead