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I will never knock it again. I apologize profusely for knocking it in the past. I just read Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and wow. Could anyone recommend good poetry in the same vein? My thanks in advance.

>> No.774833

Have you yet discovered the glory that is Carl Sandburg?

>> No.774845

>>774833
facepalm.jpg

>>774828
Yeah, Whitman's pretty unbelievable. Take a look at John Berryman.

>> No.774846

How about Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott?

>> No.774862

I'm betting you'd enjoy Ted Hughes.

>> No.774873

Dat OP pic.

;_;

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774883

Writing all of these down. Thanks!

I was directed to Emerson and William Cullen Bryant as well by a friend, but I don't trust his taste in books ever since he recommended the Elminster series to me. Would these two also apply?

>> No.774914

>>774883
The thing about Whitman was that he was writing poetry in a way no one else was at the time.

Emerson and Bryant were good but they are very different in style from Whitman. They have lots of meter and strict rhymes.

>> No.774919

Not in the same vein as Whitman but read Pablo Neruda. One of the most amazing poets ever

>> No.774921

James Stevenson is better imho
>>774833

>> No.774930

>>774921

wait... no I'm thinking of Jack Prelutsky

>> No.774931

Not /lit/-related, but go listen to Vaughan William's first symphony. It's a choral symphony with the lyrics taken entirely from Leaves of Grass, and it's amazingly epic.

>> No.774932

I felt this way after reading Rime of the Ancient Mariner. I feel like that ss the right title.
Of course I still dislike poetry I loved that read.

>> No.774951

>>774919
When I read Neruda I wasn't too impressed. It was all "Her eyes are quivering pine needles/ and the wind is blowing/O! The lights of the stars/Her breasts are small soft hills/The moon reflects the soft twilight." Over and over, repeat and repeat. The nature imagery was all too overwhelming and repetitive. Most poems seems to have a formula: invoke nature, compare woman's bodypart to something else in nature, describe a feeling in an abstract metaphor, invoke nature again.

It was good but too much for me.

>> No.775076

>>774873
>>774828
I agree I love that picture.

>> No.775092

You're not going to find anyone else like Walt Whitman. He was pretty much the greatest American poet.

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>>774931

This was amazing. I've it saved to my favorites on Youtube now.

Thanks to everyone who's contribut(ed/ing). I will check this thread again in the morning.

Damn I love /lit/.