Adûnâi
Little Russian in-cel
- Apr 25, 2020
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I don't and never did understand poetry. It all seems like pointless gibberish to me? Just tell me exactly what happened, what's the point rhyming? It just detracts from the meaning (if any is present)!
www.poetryfoundation.org
But I know Chinese love poetry, does it mean I could never even become Chinese? (ok that's irrelevant, but the point stands). Of course, it doesn't help that English poets use weird words that I've never heard in my 15 years of speaking English. And even the rhythm sucks compared to Russian because English has so many consonant clusters, making rhyming ugly and contrived.
Feel free to hate poetry in this thread, or love it, I'm open to everything. Like blogger Rolo Slavskiy once said that alchemcal poetry is supposed to try to bring you into the frame of mind necessary for the magickal spell, so if you treat it as a map to a certain emotional state, it makes more sense. But meh.
To clarify a few more things:
1) no, I'm not forced to engage with poetry, I'm not forced to do anything;
2) I do like Tolkien's poetry, but only because:
a) I'm familiar with it, so it's part of my ideological zombification, it feels cozy being indoctrinated;
b) it's written in Elvish, I'm an Elven supremacist xd
The Darkling Thrush
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires.
www.poetryfoundation.org
But I know Chinese love poetry, does it mean I could never even become Chinese? (ok that's irrelevant, but the point stands). Of course, it doesn't help that English poets use weird words that I've never heard in my 15 years of speaking English. And even the rhythm sucks compared to Russian because English has so many consonant clusters, making rhyming ugly and contrived.
Feel free to hate poetry in this thread, or love it, I'm open to everything. Like blogger Rolo Slavskiy once said that alchemcal poetry is supposed to try to bring you into the frame of mind necessary for the magickal spell, so if you treat it as a map to a certain emotional state, it makes more sense. But meh.
To clarify a few more things:
1) no, I'm not forced to engage with poetry, I'm not forced to do anything;
2) I do like Tolkien's poetry, but only because:
a) I'm familiar with it, so it's part of my ideological zombification, it feels cozy being indoctrinated;
b) it's written in Elvish, I'm an Elven supremacist xd