/lit/ - Literature

>>8536405
how can you like it?? it's so stupid, his horror at the tyger comes off as so contrived, so hysterical, such an artifice, he so wants you to believe his depth of terror but you can sense the meaninglessness behind the words. They mean nothing to him, he is posturing, that's the best I can make of it...

> A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

that is horror, you can feel yeats trembling, not at his words, but at the scope of what he is proposing and the way in which he is doing it

>>6908895
Cause it is a bitterness you know, that you have lovingly cultivated all your life. You witness yourself as naked and bestial cause you are ashamed of your love for the uniqueness of your dread and fear and hatred and neglect, the only existential cultivation any man has undertaken with enough intensity to be considered unique.

>>4468843
All books should be burned in a big fire. All children should be shot dead.