Epic poetry is dea-

>The tiger
>He destroyed his cage
>Yes
>YES
>The Tiger is out

wtf why is this so good, will this kid be the greatest modern poet?

It's good because you can feel the emotion behind it, and emotion--sensation--is a huge part of what poetry is all about. One might argue that all non-narrative poems succeed or fail based on the degree to which they successfully capture a feeling. You have to take a state of mind and capture it in stone, so to speak. This is one of the things Wordsworth and Keats were really good it.

he already is

What is the tiger a metaphor for Veeky Forums?

large benis

The first time I saw this poem it was posted by a right wing Twitter personality with accelerationist leanings so I took it to be Capital/modernity.

What ISN'T the tiger a metaphor for?

Imagine being this kid, and having to live up to expectations based on a poem you made when you were 6. Imagine being like 17 and feeling like you peaked at 6 years old.

the overman

>ywn destroy your cage

why even live?

i don't want to think it but it could have been edited with linebreaks or caps but it is really great

the best thing about this poem is the fact that it shows pretentious Veeky Forumstards will assign a meaning to anything if it's shitty enough

>t. cagelet

what did he mean by this???

If you can't differentiate between memes and real opinions I don't know how you navigate this site. No one assigns any deep meaning to it, it just arouses a certain feeling very effectively with a tried and true metaphor. Pretty good for a 6 year old.

This. It's actually an epos about modern class struggle between emasculated caucasian men and the grotesque insatiable third-wave feminism machine, in which the former succeed in breaking the metaphorical cock-cage of oppression and ultimately reverse the master-slave dialectic of gynocratic neoliberal hellscape we live in.

I'd bet good money Nael's last name is Ulyanov.

It is a great poem by every standard though. There's no point in being le dismissive patrishoon if you can't even tell great art when it literally stares you in the face.

stick to your antiquated and melodramatic structures, kiddo
the adults are talking

this is literally true.

>age 6
Heh, step back kid, 7 year old coming through

LMAOO

Please post more of those.

>7 year old
Move over, big kid incoming.
youtube.com/watch?v=B3C-DO9FyEo

god damn i hate slam poetry so much
tiger kid is #1

Sounds like your stuck in the cage.

obligatory
1/2

2/2

Al this in such a short and spare poem; not a single letter is wasted or misplaced, and the sheer elemental pull of the poem is undeniable. On top of that you also have the allusion to Blake's Songs of Experience, and after the first line Nael's "Tiger" almost even replicates the fearful symmetry that Blake described, except that the symmetry is not perfect, because the tiger and his unbridled id has been unleashed and nothing perfect can withstand that.

I don't know if Nael thought through all this carefully or if he's just a poet savant, but either way "The Tiger" is one of the better works of poetry we've seen come out of the 21st century.

Too bad this gets rid of the contrast between the first and second "yes" because every letter is capitalized.

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How the fuck is this poem so GOOD!?

Getting a lovecraftian vibe after reading between the lines.

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>I don't get poetry at all
You have to realize the point of poetry is to evoke response/emotion.

>Are people pretending when they say they like this?
No.

poetry is about conveying emotion and evoking a response simply without the fetters of long prose.

A child has very simple emotions, ones that most people can evoke within themselves.

white identity

>he thinks the tiger is a metaphor

I've written poems that sound nice, but I am interested in meter. I want to try a longer poem and a meter sounds like good structure to try this with, but I don't know which? I might just look at Fitzgerald's Iliad/Odyssey and try to copy whatever that is.

Masculinity

Iambic pentameter is the easiest meter, and the default for English epics

I challenge you (and Veeky Forums) to write a poem in Amphibrachic Dodecametre, where the number of words in each line follows the Fibonacci sequence

I thought it was syllabels that counted not words?

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>Amphibrachic Dodecametre
oh my god... I'm a literature major, not a STEM dude! You think I am good at math??

Meter is a scholar's way of coping with the lack of natural ear for rhythm.

Perhaps, but it is also structure which is in itself an interesting foundation for creativity.

>to evoke response/emotion
So if I write the edgiest, most autistic poem to offend the most people I’m a talented poet?
Going to a poetry reading and chanting “nigger nigger nigger nigger...” in front of the audience sounds like a valid artistic endevour now.

You don't seem interested in understanding poetry.

repressed sexuality

When I was like 10 I made a drawing about robots and my father and all his friends seemed to love it. I don't fucking get it, my father isn't the type of guy who lies on this kind of things. My grandpa even put that picture on the book he published

You don’t seem interested in experimental deconstructions and subversions of creative forms

Perfect preclassical
Perfect modernism

Which literary era did you encapsulate before you started middle school, user?

I mutter this to myself at work.

DID NAEL JUST ASSUME THAT TIGER'S GENDER

youtube.com/watch?v=G2zDW9me-IY

Clean your cage!

the light of god's truth

>tiger
>not tigress or tigrXs

1/10, reinforces patriarchy

Ah! But that's whete you are wrong, my dear little semen reservoir! That simple "he" gives way to one of the various interpretations of Nael's magnum opus. The sex of the tiger obviously implies that the poem is about the liberation of masculinity from the literal and metaphorical cages of feminized modernity. Thus, Nael uses the majesty of the tiger to express his vision that virility will eventually react against modern emasculation
But Nael's genius doesn't stop there. For the revelation of the tiger's gender may also imply that he is a representation of man's violence against the world, how such masculinity is dangerous amd destructive. Thus, peace amog humanity may only be achieved when all men,like the wild beasts they are, are forever castrated.

I don't know if you guys are memeing since I don't usually lurk here but I stumbled here, read the poem and actually "felt" something visceral. Do you fags have any recommendations on poetry I should read about? Possibly continental and particularly italian

AI

heh, the author is dead, kiddo

You don't have any basis for saying this. That post about "does this make me a talented poet" was some philistine shit.

I unironically like this.

well it's a good poem so why wouldn't you

I LITERALLY like this

Has based Nael written anything else? I want to see the rest of this prodigy's work.

pretty great tbf op

epin

wow

do you like like it?

Quick rundown on this guy ? researched Ccru a bit today

Yes
YES

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a tiger

Got to bed Tristan Tzara.

>From "They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket"

This kid is the next Pynchon

Wow, I don't want to sound like a cynical faggot, but this kid fucking pisses me off. . . one might even say I'm fucking TRIGGERED.

He really is a faggot.

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The Id

Are you faggots memeing me? Why do you think this conveys such emotion.

hey now

>yes

>YES

Yes
YES

The reason that young children can write good poems is because they don't have all the knowledge and presuppositions about what poems are "supposed" to be, so they just write shit and sometimes it sounds nice

Yeah but how incredible or novel is thta

It's because it's sincere and you know it. You just don't see that in this age with the internet and hyperawareness.

Only children, the mentally ill and the elderly can do it.

Jesus Christ I haven't been here in like 6 months why are you fuckers still recycling this shitty meme?

underrated

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