Poetry

[Benny B]

Bilingual editions or nothing imo. Even if you don't understand a single word of the original.

Prynne might as well be in a foreign language most of the time.

 

[Benny B]

Bilingual editions or nothing imo..

Ok, that's probably a bit extreme, but having the original there on the opposite page really helps

 

[Benny B]

Mallarmé - what's that all about and where do you begin? I've got no idea.

 

[luka]

theres never been a good spanish language poet. theyre all hysterical teenage girls.

 

[Benny B]

Had a feeling you'd pop up to say that!

I think it's unfair of course. There's quite a lot of similarities between Rimbaud and Lorca actually.

 

[luka]

thats cos you provoked me

 

[Benny B]

Ok, that was fairly blatant provocation I admit.

Don't you find Rimbaud hysterical too though? It's not necessarily a bad thing imo

 

[luka]

no, its reallly fun. spanish is never fun. hysteria is not fun.

 

[Benny B]

You're lacking duende, that's your problem.

 

[sufi]

HWPD

World Poetry Day: Can you tell which poem was written by ChatGPT?

We know poetry is subjective, but why don’t you take the quiz below to rate ChatGPT’s poetic prowess?

www.aljazeera.com

 

[Benny B]

HWPD

World Poetry Day: Can you tell which poem was written by ChatGPT?

We know poetry is subjective, but why don’t you take the quiz below to rate ChatGPT’s poetic prowess?

www.aljazeera.com

From the short poems thread

I write, erase, rewrite
Erase again, and then
A poppy blooms.

 

[Benny B]

Sorry to spoil it but I hate the thought of chat gpt writing poetry

 

[sufi]

Sorry to spoil it but I hate the thought of chat gpt writing poetry

yeah its scurrilous sacrilege
i scored 6/10 🫥

 

[Benny B]

I didn't dare do the whole quiz tbh

 

[Corpsey]

I'm not a fan of the concept either but it does make me wonder if there's an art to reading poetry that could survive even if AIs were writing it.

I suppose the reading of AI poetry would have to dispense with the notion of a 'motivation' on the poet's part, an 'intent' beyond replicating some sort of formal model (although you could probably say the same of some human poetry lolz) – and it would become about what is the effect of the way these words have been put together by HAL9000 on me.

 

[Corpsey]

People want Upskirting
Taking of photos up skirts
An offence
How is it not
Sick perverts need locking up

- Neville Southall, Twitter

Great poem

 

[Corpsey]

Early on this thread is a window into my discovery of poetry and of my former playful and innocent relationship with Luka 🥲

 

[catalog]

I wrote "Corpsey is the archetypal straight man" in my notebook today

(spent ages wondering why "straight" was spelt like that. Seems unnecessarily complicated)

 

[Benny B]

Having a second go at reading a season in hell today and it must have caught me in the right mood cos I'm loving it this time. It races along at incredible speed with never a dull moment. Posting this now cos I've had to stop to catch my breath, woo! It has a similar demonic energy to it as Blake's marriage of heaven and hell, but with the speed and intensity ramped up to 11.

 

[Benny B]

It pulls the rug out from under your feet with every single sentence, there's absolutely no stable ground whatsoever but there's this incredibly powerful trajectory to it at the same time, so you get carried, dragged, pushed and launched to god knows where