How long did it take you to enjoy poetry?
When I was 6 maybe 7 I heard Wayne spit “Paper chasin’ tell that paper look I’m right behind ya, Bitch, real G’s move in silence like lasagna” I really felt the puissant life-changing power of that pottery.
about a year until i read housman's shropshire lad and just sort of got it.
When I developed insomnia, I learned that poetry is a great tool for putting me to sleep.
>>25385124I will never enjoy 'poetry', I have to dig through mountains of forgettable or self-indulgent babble to find what I think is good poetry
Who are some other good poets to get me into poetry? I picked up Robert Frost and William Blake collections and have enjoyed them both so far. My problem is that I'm not experienced enough with poetry to really have opinions on anything deeper than "thats pretty cool".
Poetry is incredibly gay. PoetryIs when proseWith random lineBreaks.
>>25385405Line breaks exist to display the meter, shit-for-brains
>>25385378Try Yeats, Longfellow, Byron, and Percy Shelley. Pound's Cathay and troubador translations are also very good and generally straightforward (at least compared to his Cantos or Personae).
>>25385124poetry should be read like music is listened to, cursorily and vibe-ily. not feeling it? move on. like it? put it on repeat for awhile.
>>25385378What I did was buy a cheap used copy of the Norton Anthology of Poetry and just browse the poets I'd heard most about first, then go through the book more or less cover to cover. I'd recommend John Donne, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Robert Browning, Yeats and Eliot
>>25385378Baudelaire and Rilke for sure
Poetry poetry or machine translation poetry?
>>25385378Listen to >>25386222, get a copy of picrel>"thats pretty cool"This is enjoying poetry. You're just describing enjoying poetry. Don't worry about trying to "solve" a poem or "figure a poem out" or whatever, just read it. If you like it, great, read more by that poet. If you don't, whatever, come back to it later. No need to overcomplicate things>poets to get me into poetryI'd say Whitman and Yeats -- both mostly accessible, both massively influential, both beautiful
>>25385265I will never enjoy 'poetry', he saidto have to dig through mountains of babble--self-indulgent, forgettable, or both--to find what I think is good poetry
>>25386364a free pdf of this https://www.joeteacher.org/uploads/7/6/3/0/7630382/the_norton_anthology_of_poetry__2004__1.pdf
