to any english majors or poetry people on the board

[Baliset]

this site rules without hesitation if you are into William Blake.

amazing

 

[xfer]

awesome!

I have "the whore of babylon" up right next to my bed.

 

[Demonspell]

I'd sell my entire CD collection if it meant my writing would be as powerful as Blake's...

 

[tar]

fuck this hippy shit

 

[azal]

William Blake roolz.

 

[FuSoYa]

Personally I like Thomas HARDY and John GAY.

 

[Baliset]

or henry wadsworth LONGFELLOW

 

[azal]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 

[Baliset]

of course we can't forget sci-fi writers either like Michael Moorcock(pronounced MORE COCK)

 

[minxnim]

FUCKING CARL SANDBURG DUDES

 

[BigFakeSmile]

um... emily DICKenson anyone?

 

[azal]

John Keats (almost teets)

prep your missing the point of this excercise.


we are combining the worlds of highbrow (British poetry) and lowbrow (names with gross bodily or sexual connotation)

it's an experiment of the highest sophistication.

 

[minxnim]

i know. thats why i threw "FUCKING" in there.

 

[azal]

"It is impossible to recieve the psychic benefit of poetry unless the function of the real and unreal are made to cooperate." - Gaston Bachelard

 

[minxnim]

british poetry is boring anyway. YAWN

 

[BigFakeSmile]

haha, you know that

 

[azal]

John Dunne is NOT boring.

but his name is, unfortunately.

 

[BigFakeSmile]

john can have a toilet connotation...

 

[azal]

good call.

 

[minxnim]

compared to anne sexton, john dunne is a snooze pot.