poetry

[chronovore]

I think it's very strange that, as enamored as I am with language, I dislike poetry. This is not in the sense that I avoid bad LJ poetry; any sentient being with half-a-lobe devoted to self preservation will do that. I mean, I don't even like Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, Yeats... I mean, I can't even get through The Wastelands, as much as I am of the impression that I'd "level up" culturally if I could navigate it. About the only poet I can deal with is Dorothy Parker. What the hell does that say about me?

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Okay, that totally sounds like a challenge

[imlac.livejournal.com]

I post poetry (from actual poets, not my own) all the time, and I am seriously tempted to post some more and dare you not to love it.

Seriously, check out Lament by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Tell me you can't feel the grief.

And if you've never heard of Georg Trakl, you don't know what you're missing. He was a medic in World War I, and the carnage that he saw scared his consciousness so deeply that poetry was his only catharsis. De Profundis is gothier than any Joy Division song covered by The Smiths and remixed by The Cure.

Re: Okay, that totally sounds like a challenge

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

Lament is pretty stellar. It resonates, is not pretentious; it's honest. I like it, thanks.