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The Rachel Dolezal of Maronite Christians.
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According to Thucydides, the Persians blamed everything on Paris. They said if your wife gets "kidnapped" she probably just ran out on you and it's not worth tracking her down.
The illiad is in an ancient ancient form of greek from the bronze/iron age but Koine greek is just the later variation of it in the Hellenistic period do you mean like reading the new testament?
It's more than just a later variation. By about 100 AD the Greeks were struggling to understand the Iliad. By now, that language is pretty much incomprehensible to modern Greeks.
>constant dramacel, you can pick up your marseybux
I love that movie. Last year I began reading pale fire up to the entirety of the poem and this reminds me I have to pick up that book again from the beginning this year. That “baseline” part is the guy who wrote the poem describing having a heart attack.
The book is super weird, without spoiling it is about a creepy stalker writing a commentary on a poem written by an English lit professor named John Shade who recently died, and whom he used to stalk. The poem has 999 lines and it narrates John shade live. The tall white fountain is supposed to symbolize the afterlife. Later he enthusiastically meets a woman who also had a near death experience who supposedly saw a white fountain only to be disappointed it was a different hallucination. Parallels to K believing he’s human only to find out he’s not. Definitely worth reading.
I never read Lolita either, but I’ll give it a try sometime in the future. Nabokov is considered a master of the “unreliable narrator”, so regardless of the book you should always take anything the narrator says with a huge grain of salt.
Poetry may be one of the few truly dying artforms. With its fanbase and prestige lost to novels, recorded music, and television/film, it is now disgraced before death as foids who were dumb enough to get English Degrees vainly hijack it and its prestigious institutions to try to lend themselves legitimacy, but no one cares anymore.
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Luke skywalker pulls out his lightsaber
And cuts down darthvader
Democracy dies in darkness
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Someone got paid for this
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thankfully not very much
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She appears to have interviewed herself, also for The Paris Review, about the making of this masterpiece
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/03/30/making-of-a-poem-kyra-wilder-john-wick/
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all poems are garbage
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Read the illiad its a poem with killing and raping women and gay s*x
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Who was right and who was in the wrong in the foid dispute? Achilles or Agamemnon?
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Achilles of course
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Initially Achilles but he should have comprised when Agamemnon Seth odysseyeus to his tent
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According to Thucydides, the Persians blamed everything on Paris. They said if your wife gets "kidnapped" she probably just ran out on you and it's not worth tracking her down.
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Thucydides didn’t write on Persians that was Herodotus
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r-slur
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Iliad’s for strags real men read Koine Greek
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The illiad is in an ancient ancient form of greek from the bronze/iron age but Koine greek is just the later variation of it in the Hellenistic period do you mean like reading the new testament?
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Yeah I know I just don’t know much about the Bronze Age myself so I’m coping
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It's more than just a later variation. By about 100 AD the Greeks were struggling to understand the Iliad. By now, that language is pretty much incomprehensible to modern Greeks.
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Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore—
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.”
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I don’t write poems, I don’t even like them very much. And who needs words with the stars up in the sky?
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get in the sea
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Who?
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You had a chance to not be completely worthless, but it looks like you threw it away. At least you're consistent.
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Reading this decreased my pH
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and dreadfully distinct against the dark
a tall white fountain played
That's such a good scene
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I love that movie. Last year I began reading pale fire up to the entirety of the poem and this reminds me I have to pick up that book again from the beginning this year. That “baseline” part is the guy who wrote the poem describing having a heart attack.
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I didn't even know it was from a book until I looked it up to make sure I was quoting it properly. It does make me a bit intrigued to read it.
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The book is super weird, without spoiling it is about a creepy stalker writing a commentary on a poem written by an English lit professor named John Shade who recently died, and whom he used to stalk. The poem has 999 lines and it narrates John shade live. The tall white fountain is supposed to symbolize the afterlife. Later he enthusiastically meets a woman who also had a near death experience who supposedly saw a white fountain only to be disappointed it was a different hallucination. Parallels to K believing he’s human only to find out he’s not. Definitely worth reading.
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I might try and find it, I've never read Nabokov's more - erm - famous work so I don't have any preconceptions.
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I never read Lolita either, but I’ll give it a try sometime in the future. Nabokov is considered a master of the “unreliable narrator”, so regardless of the book you should always take anything the narrator says with a huge grain of salt.
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Oh good that'll help with the schizophrenia
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Chicago apparently recently appointed a Chicago Poet Laureate. They choose "avery r. young".
here's an r-slured /r/chicago thread
here's apparently a recent "good" poem of theirs: https://poets.org/poem/her-aint-even-de-funeral
Just try reading this shit:
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If you try really hard it looks like a python script
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Upper case letters are part of white supremacy
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It's like xhe wants to mimic E. E. Cummings but failed to realize that E. E. Cummings could barely pull off his own style.
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Dude tussy lmao
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niggas iffy uh blick{y} got the stiffy, u(h)
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What the frick lmao
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Iron Man fighting
On the side of good
But none of the avengers
Kill trump
Why?
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:marseysnapping: like, woah, dude
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Gonna go against the grain here and say its honestly not bad, some parts are weaker than others but honestly pretty good
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It's just a hack movie review with schizo pacing
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Speak not of process to me philistine
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I can eat a can of alphabet soup and vomit out a better poem.
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chatGPT could write better
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Here you go : "Write me a villanelle about John Wick"
John Wick, the Baba Yaga's name,
A legend of death, a man of fame,
His foes fall hard, to his deadly game.
A dark past, his demons to blame,
But revenge is his, his foes to maim,
John Wick, the Baba Yaga's name.
No mercy given, no mercy to claim,
His will of steel, a burning flame,
His foes fall hard, to his deadly game.
With guns in hand, his aim so tame,
His shots so precise, no need for aim,
John Wick, the Baba Yaga's name.
He fights alone, no need for a team,
His will so strong, a force supreme,
His foes fall hard, to his deadly game.
His path of vengeance, a relentless stream,
But his love for his wife, a constant theme,
John Wick, the Baba Yaga's name,
His foes fall hard, to his deadly game.
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this is actually so much better lol
a little repetitive but not as bad as the op
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WOW YOU'RE SO PRETENTIOUS
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I actually had no idea what it meant, I only know it from Killing Eve.
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sounds like a chant so summon ftm baba yaga from the pits of heck
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Exactly. If a literal computer could do it, how can you call it poetry? Try getting a mere automaton to shit out this masterpiece.
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I only read poetry about Harry Potter, literal pottery
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Poetry may be one of the few truly dying artforms. With its fanbase and prestige lost to novels, recorded music, and television/film, it is now disgraced before death as foids who were dumb enough to get English Degrees vainly hijack it and its prestigious institutions to try to lend themselves legitimacy, but no one cares anymore.
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What in the heckin hey is this garbage!!!!!
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5/10 needs more Star Wars and Avengers references
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Enquanto Bolsonaro nos atacava
Me encontrei com um Molusco
Ele se dizia um homem justo
É que de facistas nos salvava
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O reddit acha que o Lulachud é fascista agora, já que os gringos descobriram que a esquerda Sul-Americana ama a Rússia
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Every poem written after 1920 is dog shit
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Can someone unironically explain why everyone ITT think this sucks? It's not great, but it's definitely better than I can do.
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Few points:
Memes aside, do you honestly think this requires any skill to write?
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What are you, a 19th century highschool English teacher? 90% of poetry written in the last century has uneven meter and verse.
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Correct
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It's not not a poem just because it doesn't rhyme you complete hick
Does Paradise Lost rhyme? Bruh.
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I didn't say it's not poetry, I said it sucked
Neighbor, try giving it a read sometime and you tell me.
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I don't rate it either lol
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Snapshots:
https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/7974/john-wick-is-so-tired-kyra-wilder:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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The author of this poem has sucked at least a dozen peepees in an attempt to figure himself out.
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