/lit/ - Literature

At the first turning of the second stair
I turned and saw below
The same shape twisted on the banister
Under the vapour in the fetid air
Struggling with the devil of the stairs who wears
The deceitul face of hope and of despair.

At the second turning of the second stair
I left them twisting, turning below;
There were no more faces and the stair was dark,
Damp, jaggèd, like an old man's mouth drivelling, beyond repair,
Or the toothed gullet of an agèd shark.

At the first turning of the third stair
Was a slotted window bellied like the figs's fruit
And beyond the hawthorn blossom and a pasture scene
The broadbacked figure drest in blue and green
Enchanted the maytime with an antique flute.
Blown hair is sweet, brown hair over the mouth blown,
Lilac and brown hair;
Distraction, music of the flute, stops and steps of the mind
over the third stair,
Fading, fading; strength beyond hope and despair
Climbing the third stair.

>>9639230
kys my man, The Aeneid is the only real classic we have.

>Louis Menand argues in The New Yorker that Eliot regarded women the way he regarded Jews, seeing both as responsible for irrationality and romanticism
Was Eliot right?

>>7415124
Oh really, is that so?

Where do I begin if I want to understand poetry?

And please, don't post any shit poetry. I want the best of the best.

Why do people not like TS Eliot? He writes some of my favorite poetry. Every opinion I read about him on here though is somehow incendiary, but nobody ever explains it. Why he bad?

>about the have my final Literature exam for year 12
>curriculum bretty good/5, get to choose TS Eliot and Shakespeare
>final exam will consist of two passage analyses, one on TS one on Antony and Cleopatra
>my TS analyses will revolve around Eliot's change in concerns, structure and style following his conversion to Anglicanism
>realise that my final test of my literary ability in school will be to essentially christpost irl
>mfw

Why are the best writers conservative?

Favorite poet thread? I'll start