/lit/ - Literature

>>4199911
>Faust
Damn, knew I was forgetting something.
We read Marlowe's, though. I always felt a bit cheated that we didn't do Goethe's instead, but it was a Brit Lit course, sooo.

>US

Animal Farm
Candide
The Odyssey
Merchant of Venice
King Henry IV
Hamlet
King Lear
Beowulf
Frankenstein
Fahrenheit 451
To Kill a Mockingbird
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A few of the Canterbury Tales
Decameron (in Italian)
The Divine Comedy (in Italian)
The Prince (in Italian)
Gulliver's Travels
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Heart of Darkness
Rape of the Lock
The Scarlet Letter
Waiting for Godot
Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Invisible Man

--and various short stories from Poe, Faulkner, O'Connor & the usual.

Tallis? Sounds like an asshole.

>>4049296
If Sam Clemens had gone into railway engineering he'd be Mark Train

Age: 20
Sex: M
Nationality: SUA
Languages (fluent): English, Italian, Romanian
(Aspiring) writer?: Yeah
Published?: Nah
Authors you love: Anne Carson, Sylvia Plath, Giacomo Leopardi, Salvatore Quasimodo
Authors you hate: I hate Eminescu as a person, but speaking strictly in terms of oeuvre, no one comes to mind.
Currently reading?: rereading Nueve Ensayos Dantescos

In speech, I wouldn't bat an eye at that, but in writing, "whose" is standard for animate and inanimate antecedents alike.

Poetry is a music; it is the changing color, shape, and meaning of linguistic sound across time. Rhyme (end rhyme, rather) is not important in and of itself; it's just one aspect of phonaesthetics--which should be your greater concern.

The best way to improve your poetry is to read more poetry.

>>4046921
Lattimore

>English
Irrepressible
Vermilion
Sidereal

>Italian
Meraviglia
Nevicasse
Sognerei

>Romanian
Neagră
Singurătate
Pățește

Along with any Romance verb that preserves the Latin inchoative infix.

>>4033028
Nah, auto-antonymy isn't anything new. In many speech communities, "bad" is a less controversial example.
"Literally" just gets more flack because it takes a very common semantic change one step further. Words like "very", "really", etc. all made the transition from AssertionOfTruthValue -> EmphaticModifier. "Literally" then took that emphatic value and used it as a vehicle for hyperbole.

It astounds me how much difficulty some people have with the idea of polysemy

In Alicante they bowl the barrels
Bumblingly over the nubs of the cobbles
Past the yellow-paella eateries,
Below the ramshackle back-alley balconies,
While the cocks and hens
In the roofgardens
Scuttle repose with crowns and cackles.

Kumquat-colored trolleys ding as they trundle
Passengers under an indigo fizzle
Needling spumily down from the wires:
Alongside the sibilant harbor the lovers
Hear loudspeakers boom
From each neon-lit palm
Rumbas and sambas no ear-flaps can muffle.

O Cacophony, goddess of jazz and of quarrels,
Crack-throated mistress of bagpipes and cymbals,
Let be your con brios, your capricciosos,
Crescendos, cadenzas, prestos and prestissimos,
My head on the pillow
(Piano, pianissimo)
Lullayed by susurrous lyres and viols.

>>4013884
>>4013885
These will never fail to make me smile.

Sertraline, booze, and as much artistic expression as I can.

Books.
I'll find another drug.

>>4007932

>>4007828 basically summed it up, OP, but for further reading, you'd do well to look up the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis/various criticisms thereof.

>>4007699
"Alas, unto poor Sappho the gods and impious fate granted not one part of this infinite beauty."
It's from Leopardi's poem "Ultimo Canto di Saffo". The poetess was famously ugly.

There are people who think either can hold superiority over the other in any absolute sense.

>>4007664
>implying
"Ahi, di codesta / Infinita beltà parte nessuna / Alla misera Saffo i numi e l'empia / Sorte non fenno."
Please be kidding.

>>4007567
Plath was the qtest qt of them all

>>4006656
Yeah, but the existence of "try + INF" as a construction doesn't make "try and V" ungrammatical, even if they're used in analogy with each other.
"try" is a divalent, ambitransitive verb. It takes a subject, and then the speaker has the option of using a verbal complement or a direct object--the second argument isn't compulsory, though.

>>4006393
>implying "try" requires a direct object
Take that shit somewhere else.

>>4005946
Right. Which is a matter of transitivity.