/lit/ - Literature

>>17545688
No. Whitman is very insightful, but his poetry is very lackluster from a rhythmic and formalistic point of view. If you want to read the best of American poetry, try reading some Poe.

>>17548411
Nice: very underrated!

Valentines Day 2021:

Within those shining, sapphire eyes
That pierce like sharp, angelic knives
I see the Jordan's fabled flow
That ends all thirst and heals all woe.

Manlet Friedman

Philosophy is derivative of poetry, and most philosophers are failed poets. This is very evident with philosophers like Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, but this phenomenon can be traced back to Plato, who trained to be a play-write.

Godward's Far Away Thoughts:

In noiseless night's embrace,
Before I sleep,
I see your graceful face
And all but weep.

Your eyes, and glowing grin,
Submerge in streams -
Adrift, I drop within
Those long-lost dreams.


David's The Death of Socrates:

With accusations of impiety,
A cup of bitter hemlock is soon brought.
While Plato weeps for what the Fates have wrought,
Wise Socrates, in stern sobriety,
Accepts his sentence from society.

Hope by Gustav Klimt

The black, chthonic sea monster, on the right, is wrapping his tentacle around the woman, but the woman looks so tranquil. Behind her are gruesome faces, depicting sickness, madness, and death, but in her glowing womb there is hope.

I really enjoyed Crime & Punishment, and I really enjoyed The Idiot, too. However, The Idiot is a lot different from Crime and Punishment, and is more similar to The Brothers Karamazov, while Crime and Punishment is more similar to Demons. I'd say that Crime and Punishment was written in better prose, but The Idiot is very dense and intriguing in an introspective and sympathetic way.

If I had to rank Dostoyevsky's novels, I would rank The Brothers Karamazov as his best, and afterwords Notes From The Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and Demons, respectively.

>>17086037

I get filled with the strangest nausea every time I see anything written by Land. Any one else experience something like this?

Confederacy of Dunces portrays this predicament, but from a humorous and un-resentful angle. It's hard to be embittered when you're laughing.

>>17055609
Nice! It really is strange that Godward never got the recognition that Tadema and Bouguereau did.

Bouguereau's Nymphs and Satyr:

Wanton, and so full of pagan passion,
The spying satyr meets the nymphs' disdain.
As they pull and splash, in impish fashion,
I stand amazed by "gods we fancied slain."

>>17056272
A bit on-the-nose

>>17056442
Nice! Its brevity adds to its ephemeral feeling.

>>17056906
Interesting theme, but the wording sounds odd.

>>17056445
LOL! An interesting spin on that Rupi Kaur style.

I'm sorry to hear about your anhedonia, Anon.

I could recommend some books to you, but that wont really fix your predicament. That would likely only deal with the symptoms of your anhedonia, and leave the roots left intact - dormant and waiting to appear again.

If you are looking for a hobby to keep you engaged, and interested in living, don't feel pressured to find your passion RIGHT NOW. Let it come to you in time. If you don't want to do anything right now, don't force yourself. Sit alone and stare at the walls, if that is all you want; but don't rush into doing something you don't really want to be doing. You will eventually get so bored, with doing nothing, that you will know what it is that you would rather be doing; but if you simply force yourself to do something, just because you feel a compulsion to be always doing something - always consuming - you will likely drift between things you do not really care for.

Best of luck, Anon.

>anon identifies with Ivan
>is actually more similar to Dimitri

I remember being impressed with F. Scott Fitzgerald's choice of words.

>>17046134
Sadler makes great content. I don't know if I would have ever understood The Preface to The Phenomenology of Spirit, if I hadn't watch Sadler's Half-hour Hegel series.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism by Wilde

Prussianism and Socialism by Spengler

The Uncanny by Freud

>book that pursues this [controversial] idea
>written by a non-controversial figure

The first half is an interesting biography of the growing NSDAP, and includes interesting polemics on diverse social questions; but I remember being less interested, when I read the second half.

It is not that Protestants believe every interpretation of the Bible is sound, but that every Protestant is free to discover the soundest interpretation, without interference from a bishop. Your question is based on a poorly phrased assumption that does not accurately reflect Protestant theology.

>>17000648
Is The Coming Race any good? I dowloaded the EPUB a few day ago, but haven't opened it yet.

>>17001927
I much prefer Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and really resonated with Gordon Comstock's aversion to commodification; but teachers are much more interested in using Animal Farm as Cold War propaganda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfhp1-69Y8U&ab_channel=AlisonHawkins

Read The Decline of the West, and be initiated into the the secrets of Oswald Spengler.