How the FUCK is moby dick so beautifully written? How the hell did melville do it? I've never even read poetry as beautiful as this
How did he do it?!?!?.!
How the FUCK is moby dick so beautifully written? How the hell did melville do it?
How the FUCK is moby dick so beautifully written? How the hell did melville do it? I've never even read poetry as beautiful as this
How did he do it?!?!?.!
You probably haven’t read much poetry then. Melville is the most overrated writer on this board. I’ve said this before, but whenever some fag posts about Crime and Punishment, everyone instantly recognizes they’re a newfag reading their first book, but, for some reason, whenever someone posts about melville a huge circlejerk of “melville is so heckin good!” starts, even though it’s obviously the exact same phenomenon.
can you recommend me some good poetry? i am one of these fagposters that you refer to and i would like to experience something even better than melville
Hopkins, Tennyson, Poe, Emerson, Whitman, Swinburne, Blake etc. Start with Leaves of Grass.
Poe?????
I hope u aren't
because wtf poe is the worst poet I've read aside from like Bukowski
Your taste is shit then. Although he’s probably not as good as the others I listed
thanks
i always get filtered by poetry.
i can't follow the thread in this poem.
>like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
>Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad it's name;
this feels very unintuitive to me. the line break between "bell's" and "Bow" causes me to insert a pause in my reading, which interrupts the sentence at an extremely awkward moment. my brain can't understand what's going on without re-reading it like three or more times.
is this a common cause of confusion for inexperienced readers of poetry?
Yea it's just enjambment
It can be used for lots of reasons
Maybe in this case to emphasize the swinging image? As in it swings to one side and pauses before going to the other
And the enjambment helps create this image?
Idk
No it's not 🙁
>enjambment
thanks i didn't know this word and now i'm reading about it. helpful word to know
>Whitman
I am not going to say that Whitman sucks outright, but the others are in a different league, plus you somehow missed Coleridge.
post wrist
>Everything is bad
Cool opinion bro
I've read a lot of poetry, anon 🙁
The only two that compare to melville are eliot and keats and maybe stanescu
Oddly enough, melville's poetry sucks
>Oddly enough, melville's poetry sucks
Maybe because he's trying too hard when he tries to write poetry.
On the other hand, his goal with his sailor books was just to write a swashbuckling adventures with a dash of political commentary
>his goal with his sailor books was just to write a swashbuckling adventures with a dash of political commentary
But Mardi and moby dick aren't just adventure stories or even that political
They're definitely spiritually significant
Crime & Punishment & Moby Dick are both great, that's why they're newfags' first books.
What are you talking about this place is lousy with ruslit dick lickers
He read his Bible thoroughly and had the inestimable good literary fortune to have a national figure and personal belles-lettres hero in Hawthorne to bounce ideas off of for a time.
Sneed & Feed remains very 'contemporary'; the Moby Dick rider neophyte one suspects cant into verse.
>Walt Whitman
>Henry Longfellow
>Ezra Pound
>TS Eliot only moved to Bongland at 25
>Sylvia Plath (Some of Joyce Carol Oats is passable)
You read Baudelaire's translations of him? In any case, try Cesar Vallejo (the Peruvian Baudelaire) while you're at it.
>Cesar Vallejo
gracias.
had to check google as i was not familiar with this bongland place. This picture came first. was not disapoint. Another form of poetry.
these two posts are basically the same thing
lmao I was just reading it and this shit is boring af niga like fr nigga on god like I'm not even capping nigga why does he ramble so much like on god this shit is not bussin
I feel bad for laughing at retarded shit like that
Ishmael is israeli
le funny.
as a french, i thought all my life (40+ years) that Poe was british, dunno why.
Just learnt today by accident that he was american.
Then i thought hey let's go to LULZ ask who are some great american poets.
This post was litterally the first top left on LULZ's top page, and i only clicked cause the girl in the pic is cute(ish)
so yeah, thanks anons.
What great american poets do you recomand ? (not that oh captain my captain and amber waves of grain dullness please)
Frost
I h8 english pipo
I hate moby penis
I hate melvillesexuals
It's very well written, but it has too much boring chapters imo, the one about the white color for example, I don't know if I will push through the end
The Whiteness of the Whale is not only the best chapter of the book but possibly one of the greatest chapters in the whole of English literature...