Would you help me get into poetry please? I've been fascinated with poetry after reading a little bit of The Book of Disquiet. I like stuff that has that really dense poetic language, the metaphorical language. I remember writing my own poetry before, when I was very disturbed and going through depression, it was visual metaphors were coming out of my sub conscious mind and I didn't know what I was going to write, but I just wrote and I was amazed at what came out about 2 or 3 times in my life. I like that sort of poetry, which is very abstract. I'm also a big pessimist, love dark philosophical stuff, horror, but I also love beauty, extreme beauty. Idk if prose poetry would necessarily always be better, but I have yet to find any of that rhyme and meter poetry that really sounded good to me.
Would you help me get into poetry please...
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Yeah, there's a poetry chart, but it tells me nothing about what I might like. I am also a big book buyer, I often buy a book or two that's recommended to me every time I make a thread on this forum.
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Read T.S. Elliot, he is overrated but not bad.
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literally wiki, open the link it's not a chart
I started with Keats and Shakespeare and they quite hooked me, to the point where now I am becoming less and less interested in novels. Read the romantic poets because they are the closest to what most people think poets are. You're absolutely going to have to read the greeks sometime, but don't start right away because you will be reading a translation and all the lyrical beauty is pretty much lost. Also don't read some bullshit book about rythm, rhyme or how to read poetry, just pick it up and figure it out yourself.
I have absolutely no interest in reading the proper way to do poetry. I'm sure if I read enough poetry that I'll eventually have an idea in my head of how poetry is supposed to be constructed. I imagine that will happen once I read enough poetry and really gain the 'feel" for the poems.
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