#thomas percy poetry

[artemlegere]

William and Margaret from Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry'

Artist: Joseph Wright of Derby (English, 1734–1797)

Date: c. 1785

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Description

This painting represents the devastation wrought by the fickleness of youthful love. William, the man in bed, had given his lover Margaret cause to think they would marry, but the very next day she saw him marry another. She promptly died of grief. On William’s wedding night, Margaret appeared to him in a dream at the foot of his bed. She was dressed in her winding sheet (or burial cloth) to announce her death. William hastened to confirm his dream the next morning and, finding Margaret dead, died the same day stricken with remorse. The tragic story comes from an ancient poem published in Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1766). As the poem says: “Fair Margaret dyed for pure true love, / Sweet William dyed for sorrow.”

[burningvelvet]

being a romantic era poet: a quick how-to guide

walk around in nature contemplating Things. start hiking, swimming, sailing, rowing, shooting, riding, etc. for inspiration

be obsessed with the french revolution and related enlightenment-era figures like rousseau, voltaire, mary wollstonecraft, and madame de staël. be more disappointed by napoleon bonaparte than you are by your own father. 

speaking of fathers, your parents and most of your other relatives are all either dying or dead or emotionally abusive. if you have any siblings (full, half, step, or adopted) who DIDN'T die tragically already, then you may choose to be close to them. you also may end up being much TOO close to them. various circumstances may also ban you from seeing them. 

be at least slightly touched by madness and/or some other severe illness(es) including but not limited to: consumption, horrors, syphilis, deformities, lameness, terrors, piles, boils, pox, allergies, coughing, sleep abnormalities, gonorrhea, etc. — for which you must take frequent bed rest and copious amounts of Laudanum (opium derivation)

consider foregoing meat and adopting a vegetable diet instead to purify the spirits. you may also abstain from alcohol for the same reasons. alternatively, you may attempt the veggie diet, end up rejecting it, and becoming a rampant alcoholic instead. in romanticism there is no healthy medium between abstinence and excess.

reject, or at least heavily criticize, christianity. refuse to get married in a church and consider becoming a fervent champion of atheism. alternatively, you may embrace catholicism, but only on an aesthetic basis. eastern religions and minority religions are also acceptable, only because they piss off the christians. 

if you’re not a self-hating member of the aristocracy and instead have to work for a living, do something that allows you to benefit society, be creative, and/or contemplate life. viable options include, but are not limited to: apothecarist, doctor, teacher, preacher, lawyer, farmer, printmaker, publisher, editor. there is also the possibility of earning a few coins from your art. if you were cursed to be born a She, no worries. we believe in equality. you may choose from these occupations: wife, nanny, housekeeper, spinster, amanuensis (copy writer for a man), lady’s companion, divorced wife, singer/actress/escort, widow, regular escort, tutor, or housewife. 

speaking of sexist institutions, try rejecting marriage entirely. Declare your eternal devotion to your lover by having sex with them on your mother’s grave instead.

if you do get married — elope, and only let it be for necessary financial reasons, or to try and save a teenage girl from her controlling family, or out of true love with someone you view as your intellectual equal, or because your life is so racked with scandals and debt that you can only clear your name by matrimony to a wealthy religious woman as your last resort before fleeing the country.

After marriage, quickly assert your belief in the powers of free love and bisexuality by taking extramarital lovers and suggesting your spouse follow suit. If they cannot keep up with your intellectual escapades then consider leaving them. Later on, propose a platonic friendship with them following the separation, or beg them for reconciliation.

If your marriage is happy, try moving in with another bohemian couple to shake things up. Alternatively, you may die before the wedding for dramatic effect.

If you beget children (whether in or out of marriage, makes no matter), do society a favor by choosing to raise them with your beliefs. Consider adopting orphan children, or even non-orphan children. If their parents are poor enough they probably won’t mind. Try kidnapp— I mean adopting — children off the side of the road if you can. 

DIE but do it creatively. ideally young. ideas: prophecy your own death, lead an army into war and then die right before your first battle and on your deathbed curse everyone and demand to see a witch, write a will leaving money to your mistresses or some random young man you have an unrequited romantic obsession with, carry a copy of your dead friend's poetry and read it right before you drown so that your washed up corpse can only be identified by his book in your pocket, die while staring at your lover's shriveled up heart that you keep wrapped up in a copy of his own poetry and then be buried with it, die of the poet's illness (consumption) while your artist friend draws you and then be buried with your lover's writing, get mysteriously poisoned (by yourself) after a series of scandals and accidents and then have your family announce that you were killed by god, die from romanticizing poverty or receiving bad reviews from literary critics, die from walking or horseback riding in the cold and the rain while poeticizing, etc.

[kaleb-is-definitely-sane]

"You're 17, what are you going to do with your life?" I'm gonna write poetry in my room, try to get published, kill myself with arsenic, and be worshipped like some kind of Romantic Messiah a hundred years later when a bunch of high and alcoholic teenagers start a cult around me.

[illustratus]

The Little Foot Page by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

[letterful]

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. —Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry (1821) “The unacknowledged legislators of the world” describes the secret police, not the poets. —W. H. Auden, “Writing” (1962) Do not be elected to the senate of your country. —W. B. Yeats, “To Ezra Pound” (1937) Poetry is power. —Osip Mandelstam, quoted in Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope (1970) What is poetry which does not save Nations or people? —Czesław Miłosz, “Dedication” (1945) If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone. —Thomas Hardy, from The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy, ed. Michael Milgate (1985)

The epigraphs to Clare Cavanagh's Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West.

[appalatchn]

Post 1: Introduction

Hello, Readers,

My first experience with poetry--or at least the first I can remember--began when I was eleven years old. My mom still had her high school copy of Immortal Poems of the English Language, a poetry anthology edited by the poet Oscar Williams. She was a nurse who often worked long, difficult hours, but if she was in the right mood, she'd dig out her copy of Immortal Poems and read to my brothers and me. Her favorite were the British Romantic poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.

This experience I mentioned above remains one of my most vivid childhood memories. It was stormy night, and we had lost power. In the flickering candlelight, she read the entirety of Coleridge's "The Rime of The Ancient Mariner." Though I was too young to really appreciate or even understand what Coleridge was getting at, I remember being amazed at the sounds and rhythms of the poem, it's forlorn-sounding ballad meter, and the idea of a sinner condemned to wander the earth for all eternity to tell his tale to anyone who would listen.

Childhood moments like this one that laid the foundation for my love of poetry, however, I did not take to poetry until much later in life. Throughout high school, I cared more for prose--short stories and novels. I didn't "get" poetry, or really care for it. About halfway through my undergraduate education, I decided to take a survey course in British literature. When I looked at the reading list for this course, I was surprised to see that almost every assigned text was verse. I remember the course began with William Blake's "The Garden of Love" and ended with Seamus Heaney's "Digging." I almost dropped the course, but I decided to stick it out. This decision changed my life.

I quickly discovered that I loved poetry! I just had never had a great teacher of poetry, someone who is passionate about form, meter, and rhythm, and cared for the effects of grammar and syntax on the reader as much as he cared for the philosophy and historical contexts informing the poem. He also read poetry with real emotion, conviction, and passion--something I had not encountered since my mother read to me as a child.

I became obsessed with the works of Keats in this course, and suffice it to say that I was hooked. I changed my major from History to English at the end of the semester.

I took many more classes with this instructor, and each one of them was verse-centered. Out of the 7 or 8 courses I had with him, I can count on one hand the amount of prose that we read. Together, we covered all the major periods of British poetry, and by the time I graduated, I had built up a substantial base of knowledge about poetry.

Without my first teacher--my mother--and this second teacher many years later, I do not think I would be here with you all today. For many years, I worked blue-collar jobs and drifted aimlessly. Even when I decided to begin college (and for quite a while after), I had no clue about what I wanted to do. I am eternally grateful to my teachers for drawing this love of verse out of me and lighting my path.

Some of my favorite poets are John Donne, Percy Shelley, John Keats, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy, T.S. Eliot, and Wallace Stevens.

I know very little about contemporary poetry, so I am excited to read these poets in this course. Maybe I will discover a few new favorites.

If you made it this far, thanks for reading. I look forward to our time together this semester.

[la-femme-au-collier-vert]

A List of Works Influencing and Referenced by IWTV Season 1

Season 2 here, Season 3 here

Works Directly Referenced:

Marriage in a Free Society by Edward Carpenter

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Cheri by Collete

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

La Nausee by Jean-Paul Sartre (credit to @demonicdomarmand )

Complete Poetry of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas H. Johnson*

Blue Book by Tom Anderson

The Book of Abramelin the Mage

Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti with libretto by Giovanni Ruffini

Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky with libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky

Pelleas et Melisande by Claude Debussy

Epigraphes Antiques by Claude Debussy

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Nosferatu (1922)

The Graduate (1967)

Marie Antoinette (1938)

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulis by Michael Ranft (1728)

Emily Post’s Etiquette

Bach’s Minuet in G Major (arranged as vampire minuet in G major)

Works Cited by the Writer’s Room as Influences:

Bourbon Street: A History by Richard Campanella (as it hardly mentions Storyville I think interested parties would be better served by additional titles if they want a complete history of New Orleans)

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (This was also adapted into an award winning opera)

poetry by Charles Simic (possibly A Wedding in Hell?)

poetry by Mark Strand (possibly Dark Harbour?)

As seen in Daniel’s apartment & quoted on his LinkedIn account:

The Savage Garden by Mark Mills credit to @speckled-jim

Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff credit to @spreckled-jim

America and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide by Alan S. Blinder credit to @speckled-jim

Dairy Queen Days by Robert Inman credit to @speckled-jim

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lester R. Brown credit to @speckled-jim

Attila: the Judgement by William Napier credit to @speckled-jim

In A Heartbeat by Rosalind Noonan credit to @spreckled-jim

The Lost Recipe for Happiness by Barbara O'Neal credit to @speckled-jim

Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism" by Jacques Dupuis credit to @speckled-jim

Strawberry Hill: Horace Walpole's Gothic Castle by Anna Chalcraft & Judith Viscardi credit to @speckled-jim

Sailing to Byzantium by Yeats

The Circus Animal's Desertion by Yeats

The Second Coming by Yeats

Artworks referenced (much credit in this section to @iwtvfanevents and to @nicodelenfent )

Fall of The Rebel Angels by Peter Bruegel The Elder (1562)

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt (1633)

Three Peaches on a Stone Plinth by Adriaen Coorte (1705)

Strawberries and Cream Raphaelle Peale, (1816) credit to @diasdelfeugo

Red Mullet and Eel by Edouard Manet (1864)

Starry Night by Edvard Munch (1893)

Self Portrait by Edvard Munch (1881)

Captain Percy Williams on a Favorite Irish Hunter by Samuel Sidney (1881)

Autumn at Arkville by Alexander H. Wyant 

Cumulus Clouds, East River by Robert Henri 

Mildred-O Hat by Robert Henri (Undated)

Ship in the Night James Gale Tyler (1870)

Bouquet in a Theater Box by Renoir (1871)

Berthe Morisot with a Fan by Édouard Manet (1872)

La Vierge D’aurore by Odilon Redon (1890) credit to @vampirepoem on twt

Still Life with Blue Vase and Mushrooms by Otto Sholderer (1891)

After the Bath: Woman Drying her Hair by Edgar Degas (1898)

Bust of a Woman with Her Left Hand on Her

Chin by Edgar Degas (1898) credit to @terrifique

Backstage at the Opera by Jean Beraud (1889)

Roman Bacchanal by Vasily Alexandrovich Kotarbiński (1898)

Dancers by Edgar Degas (1899)

Calling the Hounds Out of Cover by Haywood Hardy (1906)

Dolls by Witold Wojtkiewicz (1906) credit to @gyzeppelis on twt

Forty-two Kids by George Bellows (1907)

The Artist's Sister Melanie by Egon Schiele (1908)

Paddy Flannigan by George Bellows (1908)

Stag at Sharkey’s by George Bellows (1909)

The Lone Tenement by George Bellows (1909)

Ode to Flower After Anacreon by Auguste Renoir (1909) credit to @iwtvasart on twt

New York by George Bellows (1911)

Young Man kneeling before God the Father

Egon Schiele (1909)

Kneeling Girl with Spanish Skirt by Egon Schiele (1911)

Portrait of Erich Lederer by Egon Schiele (1912)

Krumau on the Molde by Egon Schiele (1912)

Weeping Nude by Edvard Munch (1913)

The Cliff Dwellers by George Bellows (1913)

Church in Stein on the Danube by Egon Schiele (1913)

Self Portrait in a Jerkin by Egon Schiele (1914)

The Kitten's Art Lesson by Henriette Ronner Knip credit to @terrifique

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion by Francis Bacon (1944)

New York by Vivian Maier (1953)

Self Portrait by Vivian Maier (Undated)

Self Portrait by Vivian Maier (1954)

Slave Auction by Jean-Michelle Basquiat (1982)

(Untitled) photo of St. Paul Loading Docks by Bradley Olson (2015)

Strange Creatures by Jamie Chiarello (2016) credit to @maharetscompound

Transformation by Ron Bechet (2021)

(Untitled) sculpture in the shape of vines by Sadie Sheldon

(Untitled) Ceramic Totems by Julie Silvers (Undated)

Mother Daughter by Rahmon Oluganna

Twins I by Raymon Oluganna

Trying to Focus by Jamie Chiarello credit to @maharetscompound

Nature Mutherfucker by Jamie Chiarello credit to @maharetscompound

Small and perpetual changes by Jamie Chiarello (2021) credit to @maharetscompound

@iwtvfanevents made a post of unidentified works here.

Works IWTV may be in conversation with (This is the most open to criticism and additions)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, uncensored (There are two very different versions of this which exist today, as Harvard Press republished the unedited original with permission from the Wilde family.)

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Warsan Shire for Beyoncé’s Lemonade

Faust: A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

La Morte Amoreuse by Theophile Gautier

Carmilla by Sheridan LeFanu

Maurice by E.M. Forster

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (credit to @johnlockdynamic )

1984 by George Orwell (credit to @savage-garden-nights for picking this up)

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

Gone With the Wind film (1939)

Hannibal (2013)

Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle Suzanne de Villenueve

Music used in Season 1 collected by @greedandenby here

*if collected or in translation most of the best editions today would not have been available to the characters pre-1940. It’s possible Louis is meant to have read them in their original French in some cases, but it would provide for a different experience. Lydia Davis’ Madame Bovary, for example, attempts to replicate this.

** I've tagged and linked relevant excerpts under quote series as I've been working my way through the list.

[melpomeneprose]

Get to know me: TURN: Washington's Spies Edition!

Favorite Season: Season 3. I grew up on Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan. Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles and the bicon The Vampire Lestat literally saved my life, in catholic school, in the midst of my own bi crisis compounded with my crisis of morals vs the system. Discounting Benjamin’s wig, if a character, like Benjamin, or Lestat, or Percy, all of which are flawed main POV characters ~don’t~ have a crisis of morals or question the nature of “hero” or in Lestat’s case “goodness” I don’t see the point. Sorry not sorry.

Least favourite season: Season 2. I love Annlett I just don’t personally like Abraham Woodhull ~ as depicted in the show or irl very much, though he’s better than Thomas Jefferson, all my homies hate Thomas Jefferson.

Side note: good job making Abe sympathetic and relatable, you deserve a medal, cause that’s not easy: @cabbxges-and-kings. 💕

Favorite character(s):

Benjamin Tallmadge.

Sarah Livingston.

John André.

Abigail.

Lola.

Philomena.

Anna Strong.

Mary Woodhull.

Peggy Shippen.

Alexander Hamilton.

John Graves Simcoe.

George Washington ~ but only as depicted in TURN, I’d readily punch his ghost, team Sally Hemings & Ona Judge.

Least Favorite Character: Benedict Arnold. Enough said.

Favorite Romantic Relationship: I thought Anna/Selah Strong was very touching tbh. Tbf I’m THE multi-shipper so Benjamin/everyone -> including my 18th century vampire original character, but, regarding canon: Anna/Selah Strong.

Favorite Friendship:

Abigail and Anna Strong. ~ Abigail, my love, you’re so under appreciated.

Benjamin Tallmadge and Caleb Brewster. ~ Though, I see Benjamin as bi, so I see them platonically, romantically, and queer platonically, cause I’m not a coward.

Favorite Episode(s):

Hearts and Minds.

Judgement.

Yorktown — I don’t remember the exact title, but, that’s a fun one.

Pilot — it’s iconic.

Least Favorite Episode: I appreciate George Washington’s contributions to America as a historical figure, but, as mentioned above, team Sally Hemings & Ona Judge. I also appreciate the actors performances in this show. I act as a hobby and I can script write, though my preference is novels, novellas, poetry & zines — in that order. TURN is exceedingly well written and acted, I just am not partial to George Washington. So the Washington centric episode.

Favorite Iconic Quote: I embodied Benjamin Tallmadge as a coping mechanism during my first week of college, so it’s gotta be: “Oh, I won’t be hiding.”

Borrowed from: @honorhearted. 🫡

Tagging: @historiavn, @keptflame, @nauticql & @johngravessimcoe, @cavalrylad, & @annastrxng. 💕

[thatdoganon]

Hello! :)

It took me years made this blog despite lurking on Tumblr for a very, very long time. I don’t like posting on social media, and will never like anything because reblogging is the same thing to me. Honestly, this blog was mostly made as a way to get past the annoying login wall. (Name is a reference to a nickname I gave myself as an anon for a Sanders Sides ‘role swap’ ask blog. They have no clue how much of an impact that ask blog had on me, I’m sure.)

I like the game In Stars and Time by InsertDisk5 (my current hyperfixation), Hollow Knight by Team Cherry, Omori by Omocat, Undertale and Deltarune by Toby Fox, Sanders Sides by Thomas Sanders, H.I.V.E. by Mark Walden, Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan, Pokemon, and probably other things I’m forgetting to mention!

Be mindful for spoilers! I am very inconsistent with tagging things, but I tag anything I deem as spoiler worthy from In Stars and Time as ‘In Stars and Time Spoilers’, from act 2 spoilers to two hats and optional achievements. That’s the only thing I’m willing to consistently spoiler tag since I’m reblogging so much at the time.

Speaking of tagging. I try to tag by fandom (just straight up the name of the game/franchise), ‘Art’ if it’s some from of creative media, ‘Writing’ for either well worded posts or stories/poetry, and then whatever else is on my mind when reblogging.

More Specific Tags and what they mean:

Ramble: Whenever I spend too long writing in the tags I throw this one in as well. Because that’s as close as I’ll get to real posts probably.

Dragons/Animals: I’ve got a tag for animals, but a specific one for dragons as well since dragons are my favorite thing ever (minus time loops)

Shadow Fellas: Incredibly niche tag for two characters, both of which are technically late game spoilers for their respective games (Omori and In Stars and Time). I’ll try to remember this tag exists, so I can see my two favorite characters when I want to.

Mystic Journey: The name of a silly game I want to create. This will probably accompany a ramble tag, or be jotted under posts about fantasy games and dragons. Or maybe writing advice. Maybe. Maybe. In the future there will be original content under that tag here? Don’t count on it though. I’d only do that if someone was really curious AND I was in the mood to share lol

Best of the Best: “I place upon you the badge of honor”. Reserved for only the best posts on Tumblr. Posts I will be thinking about for days afterwards, or maybe I already have been for years.

Good post OP: When I kinda want to give them Best of the Best but chicken out, or if I just want to give a big ol thumbs up.

That’s all! Have fun scrolling! 🐶

[the-star-shines]

hehehe blog introductory post

(am i doing this right?)

soooo I figured that I should do this since I have followers and mutuals now lol

ANyyywayyyyy

You guys can call me whatever you want, i guess? you can correlate a nickname with my URL but you don't have to

my age is in my bio but if you don't feel like straining your eyes to look at that i was born the same year that pluto was demoted from planethood (rip)

Things I post:

reblogs of things i find funny

reblogs of things that are cool/ interesting to me

reblogs of art i like

reblogs of poetry

my own random shitposts

my art (lie)

my own poetry

me just... talking?

answering asks if i get them lol

queer shit

things that i think are important

weird things (yes very specific i am aware)

Miku Binder Thomas Jefferson (any chance I get)

Things I dont post:

Hate Speech (against ANYONE)

Fundraisers or reblogs of posts asking for money (because idk how to check if they're scams or not)

Overly sexual content (I will make suggestive jokes sometimes but i won't post anything nsft on this blog, ESPECIALLY since there are minors who follow me)

literally anything I wouldn't say in real life

exposing anyones info or secrets

AI Generated anything (i am an ai hater frrrrr)

List of things im intooooooo:

Percy Jackson & the Olympians + anything affiliated

Hamilton

women

Ride the Cyclone

Hatsune Miku

women

Epic the Musical

Weirdcore

Analog horror

tall skinny nerdy men

cats (just in general, not cats the musical)

The Amazing Digital Circus ( however i am a jax hater)

Miraculous Ladybug

women

Taylor swift (fav album is midnights, pls dont be a hater about me being a swiftie 😭)

surrealism

dark romanticism (as in like that genre of literature in the 19th century not the romanticized sexual assault in modern "dark romance" books)

poetry

greek mythology

mythology in general

the world wars

eminem

the cold war

espionage

Gravity Falls

women

art

funny memes

jokes about past history events i shouldn't be joking about (like presidential assasinations, etc)

Steven Universe

Marvel (my favorites are wanda cause of her character and bucky because he's lowk fine)

Star Wars (hardly ever post abt it though)

history stuff in general

butterflies

did i mention I like women?

my wife (a whole man btw)

anyyyyywayyyyyyyyyyyyy

I'm gonna add on to this with a list of all the things i use to tag my stuff, it's mainly for me to reference to so i can find my damn posts, but everyone can use it lolllll

If there's anything abt me that you still want to know my asks are open and I'll answer if it's reasonable :)))))))))))

inside of you there are two intestines.

one of them is large, and the other is small.

[burningvelvet]

This excerpt from The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Thomas Medwin is KILLING me.

Medwin was Shelley's cousin; he knew Shelley and Byron and their circle, and later fabricated much of what he wrote about them, to the hatred of Mrs. Shelley. However, considering Shelley's frequent complaints even in letters of his complex jealousy toward Byron (and subsequent guilt for it), and considering Shelley's dramatic use of language, I can completely imagine him going on heated rants about "the Byronic Energy." That's so him. This is the same dude who wrote a poem for Byron starting with the lines "If I esteemed you less, Envy would kill / Pleasure" and ending with the lines "the worm beneath the sod / May lift itself in worship to the God" like ummm! . . . bro was enchanted . . . the Byronic Energy really did take his powers . . .

[the-star-shines]

updated bio post ig

yes still same person, just at the beginning of a depressive episode so i dont really think my old post really aligns with me anymore

not giving anyone my real name on the internet like that, if you know me irl then you know me irl if you don't then just call me whatever

im tired and lonely a bunch but im gonna try not to post too much depressing shit or vents

this is me trying...

Things I post:

reblogs of things i find funny

reblogs of things that are cool/ interesting to me

reblogs of art i like

reblogs of poetry

my own random shitposts

my art (lie)

my own poetry

me just... talking?

answering asks if i get them lol

queer shit

things that i think are important

weird things (yes very specific i am aware)

Miku Binder Thomas Jefferson (any chance I get)

Things I dont post:

Hate Speech (against ANYONE)

Fundraisers or reblogs of posts asking for money (because idk how to check if they're scams or not)

Overly sexual content (I will make suggestive jokes sometimes but i won't post anything nsft on this blog, ESPECIALLY since there are minors who follow me)

literally anything I wouldn't say in real life

exposing anyones info or secrets

AI Generated anything (i am an ai hater frrrrr)

List of tags I use (that im not very good at using lmao):

#eggd.txt - text post (original)

#alien.orp - funny meme lmao

#appl.ejuic - wuh luh wuh and everyone else too

#pomni.granit - TADC

#kittymeow.txt - rants/vents? - i hope i dont get to the point again where ill have to use this

#ros.thorn - steven universe

#ore.gun - gravity falls

#lft.rght - political - i also forget this exists

#mprtnt - psas/important

#bttrnt.sqash - surrealist/weird/horror

#6hndrd.mn - epic the musical

#nw.yrok - hamilton

#colos.seum - reposted art

#bllpt.pen - percy jackson and affiliated

#grnhau.sgs - dystopian future type shit

#rain.cld - music

#m.lv - my shaylaaaaa

#ic.arus - poetry (mine)

#dach.nd - suggestive

#th.sun - poetry (not mine) - forget this one as well goddamn

#g.uitar - taylor swift

#ath.ns - greek mythology

#wtr.mln - shitpost (+.txt if mine) - i rarely remember that this exists lmao

#mkbnd.rthmsj.ffrsn - miku binder thomas jefferson

#blubr.ry - miku

#fnky.twn - mental health stuff ig??

#rga.nic - anti ai

#whva.hlk - marvel

#wnd.vsn - wanda 

#yrnw.mpr? - star wars

#blng.isl - TOH

#fly.bttr - butterfly 

#beans - cats

#pnkpn.yclb - Chappell Roan

#mnn.thmn - moon

why are they all so fucking weird, you may ask.

....

yippee all done

[poemshubs]

What Are the Divisions of Poetry?

Poetry is a diverse and multifaceted form of literary expression. It encompasses a range of styles, forms, and structures, each offering unique ways to convey emotions, ideas, and experiences. Understanding the various divisions of poetry is essential for both readers and writers, as it provides insight into the different ways poetry can be crafted and appreciated. This article explores the primary divisions of poetry, including its major forms, structures, and styles, and examines how each contributes to the richness of the poetic tradition.

Major Divisions of Poetry

Narrative Poetry

Narrative poetry tells a story through verse. Unlike other forms of poetry, which may focus on emotion or abstract concepts, narrative poetry emphasizes plot and character development. This division includes several well-known subgenres:

Epic Poetry: Epic poems are lengthy and deal with grand themes, such as heroism, warfare, and the struggles between good and evil. Examples include Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey” and Virgil’s “Aeneid.” These epics often feature heroic figures and explore their adventures and significant achievements.

Ballads: Ballads are shorter narrative poems that typically recount a dramatic or tragic story. They often have a simple, repetitive structure and are meant to be sung or recited. Traditional ballads often focus on folklore, legends, and historical events. Examples include “The Ballad of Robin Hood” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Romance: Romance poetry centers on chivalric adventures and themes of love and honor. These poems often involve knights, quests, and magical elements. Medieval romances, such as “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” exemplify this form, blending narrative with elements of legend and mythology.

Lyric Poetry

Lyric poetry is characterized by its focus on personal emotions, thoughts, and reflections. Unlike narrative poetry, which tells a story, lyric poetry expresses the poet‘s inner feelings and experiences. The primary forms of lyric poetry include:

Sonnet: The sonnet is a 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and meter, typically iambic pentameter. There are several types of sonnets, including the Shakespearean (or English) sonnet, which follows the ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme, and the Petrarchan (or Italian) sonnet, which consists of an octave (ABBAABB) and a sestet (CDECDE or CDCDCD). The sonnet form is often used to explore themes of love, beauty, and time.

Ode: An ode is a formal, often lengthy lyric poem that addresses and praises a person, object, or abstract concept. Odes are characterized by their elevated language and elaborate structure. Examples include John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind.”

Elegy: Elegy is a reflective poem that laments the death of someone or something. It is characterized by its mournful tone and meditative quality. Classical examples include “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray and “In Memoriam A.H.H.” by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Haiku: The haiku is a traditional Japanese form consisting of three lines with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5. Haikus typically focus on nature and the fleeting aspects of life, capturing a moment of insight or emotion. Matsuo Bashō’s “Old Pond” is a classic example of this form.

Dramatic Poetry

Dramatic poetry combines elements of drama and poetry, using verse to convey dialogue and action. This form is intended to be performed, and its structure often includes:

Tragedy: Tragic poetry deals with serious and often somber themes, exploring the downfall of a central character due to a fatal flaw or external forces. Classical examples include Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” and William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.”

Comedy: Comic poetry uses humor and satire to address social issues and human folly. It often features humorous situations and witty dialogue. Aristophanes’ plays, such as “Lysistrata,” are notable examples of comedic drama.

Dramatic Monologue: A dramatic monologue is a type of poem where a single speaker addresses an audience or another character, revealing their thoughts and feelings. Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” is a famous example, where the speaker’s speech reveals much about his character and situation.

Experimental and Free Verse Poetry

In addition to traditional forms, modern poetry has seen the rise of experimental and free verse poetry, which break away from established conventions and explore new ways of expression:

Free Verse: Free verse poetry does not adhere to a specific meter or rhyme scheme. Instead, it focuses on the natural flow of language and the use of imagery, symbolism, and other poetic devices. Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” and T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” are seminal works in this form.

Concrete Poetry: Concrete poetry emphasizes the visual arrangement of words on the page. The layout of the text is an integral part of the poem’s meaning, often creating shapes or patterns that enhance the reader’s experience. Examples include the works of e.e. cummings and the concrete poetry movement.

Spoken Word: Spoken word poetry is a performance-based form that combines elements of poetry, theater, and music. It is often performed live and emphasizes the rhythm, sound, and delivery of the poem. This form has gained popularity in recent years through poetry slams and performance poetry.

Structural Divisions of Poetry

Stanza Forms

Poems are often divided into stanzas, which are groupings of lines that function similarly to paragraphs in prose. Each stanza typically follows a specific pattern or structure:

Couplet: A couplet consists of two lines that usually rhyme and have the same meter. Couplet forms are often used in Shakespearean sonnets and many traditional poems.

Quatrain: A quatrain is a four-line stanza with various rhyme schemes, such as ABAB, AABB, or ABBA. Quatrains are common in many forms of poetry, including the sonnet and ballad.

Sestet: A sestet is a six-line stanza, often used in the Petrarchan sonnet. The rhyme scheme can vary, with CDECDE and CDCDCD being common patterns.

Octave: An octave consists of eight lines, typically used in the first part of the Petrarchan sonnet. The rhyme scheme is usually ABBAABBA.

Meter and Rhythm

The meter of a poem refers to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line. Common metrical patterns include:

Iambic Pentameter: This meter consists of five iambic feet per line, where each foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. It is commonly used in Shakespearean sonnets and plays.

Trochaic Tetrameter: This meter consists of four trochaic feet per line, where each foot has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. It is often used in narrative and lyric poetry.

Anapestic Meter: This meter consists of three-syllable feet with two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. It is commonly used in light verse and comic poetry.

Dactylic Meter: This meter consists of three-syllable feet with a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. It is often found in epic poetry and classical verse.

Rhyme Schemes

Rhyme schemes refer to the pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem. Common rhyme schemes include:

ABAB: This scheme alternates rhymes, with the first and third lines rhyming and the second and fourth lines rhyming.

AABB: This scheme pairs lines with the same rhyme, creating a couplet structure.

ABBA: This scheme features an enclosed rhyme, where the first and fourth lines rhyme with each other, and the second and third lines rhyme with each other.

ABACAD: This scheme features a more complex pattern, with each line having a unique rhyme.

Themes and Styles in Poetry

Romantic Poetry

Romantic poetry emphasizes emotion, nature, and individualism. Poets of the Romantic period, such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, explored themes of beauty, the sublime, and the power of the imagination.

Modernist Poetry

Modernist poetry, emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is characterized by a break from traditional forms and conventions. Modernist poets, such as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, experimented with new techniques, fragmented structures, and stream-of-consciousness narrative.

Postmodernist Poetry

Postmodernist poetry builds on Modernist experimentation but often incorporates elements of irony, pastiche, and self-reflexivity. Poets like John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich explore the boundaries of language and identity in their work.

Conclusion

Poetry is a rich and varied form of literary expression, encompassing a wide range of divisions, forms, and styles. From the grand narratives of epic poetry to the intimate reflections of lyric poetry, and the dynamic performances of dramatic poetry, each division offers unique ways to explore the human experience. Understanding these divisions enhances our appreciation of poetry and provides insight into the diverse ways poets craft their art.

Whether through the structured elegance of a sonnet, the rhythmic freedom of free verse, or the visual creativity of concrete poetry, the divisions of poetry reflect the boundless possibilities of language and imagination. By delving into these different forms and styles, we can gain a deeper understanding of the power and beauty of poetry and its ability to capture the complexities of life.

[doyouwanttoseeabug]

Your name is John Smith. Heaven is almost exclusively filled with John Smiths, Li Weis and the like. You mostly just hang out, chill, do a little barbecue, comfort the sobbing kids named shit like Fortescue Montgomery as they realise they're not long for this world either. Sometimes Shakespeare or Jonas Salk will show up for a bit, but only the newbies get weird about it. Shakespeare's a great guy! Washington's a dick, though.

Your buddy, Abdul Ahmed #47852, told you there used to be a lot of Sophronias when he arrived. He flips over another chicken wing on the grill. "You don't see a lot of Sophronias round anymore, right?"

"That you don't."

"All the Ethels and Hildas are looking nervous."

"That they are."

"But you gotta think - five hundred years. That's a long time for there to be John Smiths."

"Nowt wrong with being a John Smith."

"Didn't say there was. Just saying. At some point, John's going to go the way of Sophronia. Human nature. Look at poor Be-Fruitful-And-Multiply Thomas." He nods at the skinny, nervous man at the edge of the lawn. "Someone told me that the only reason he's surviving is because his birth record's going round on the internet for teens to laugh at."

"Fruitful's a dick, though."

"Yeah, still. Must be rough, though. Hoping that people keep laughing at you long enough to stay here."

Some are lucky. Katherine Howard, teenage wife of King Henry VIII, will be here for a long time, and by her grace so will the hundreds of other Katherine Howards born since her death. They gather around her like a patron saint, and she moves through her flock laughing like the true queen she never got to be. There are a lot of Percy Jacksons up here giving daily thanks to some author down below. A gaggle of Dorothy Parkers, arranged in flapper dresses or swinging miniskirts, are laughing on one of the bright green lawns, a nicotine mist turning them silver.

"But only one Edna St. Vincent Millay," says a sharp woman when you mention this.

"You sad about that?"

She throws back her head and laughs. "Fuck, no. I just wish people down there would stop writing my bloody biography. Read the poetry, keep me around; but god, please, consign my past lovers to oblivion."

No one ever wrote a biography of John Smith, simple country farmer. But that's all right with you. There will always be parents wanting something old fashioned. Something simple. Something good. Or, as Abdul says, there will always be mothers exhausted from labour and out of imagination who just say oh fuck it, we'll call him John, who cares?

Plus you hear they named a beer after you now. Oh yeah, Johnny Smith will be around for a while.

People’s souls vanish from the afterlife if their names stop being mentioned by those in the living world. You, an average person who hasn’t accomplished anything exceptional or abhorrent, have been here for 500 years and still haven’t vanished yet.

[samabigailalan]

Hi! For the Greek myth asks: Poseidon, Apollo, Persephone, Odysseus, please! :)

Hey : )

Poseidon: do you prefer ocean or land?

Definitely land, I kind of find the ocean scary, the idea of it being so deep below me is a bit creepy.

Apollo: what are your favourite pieces of poetry?

I love Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, it’s supposed to be about the ancient Egyptian king Ramesses the 2nd, and a poem called The song of the shirt by Thomas hood.

Persephone: what’s your favourite season?

Spring, I love when everything starts growing again and everything brightens up after winter.

Odysseus: what’s your favourite place to travel?

Scotland, in the highlands and around the Hebridean islands. It is stunning there.

Thanks for the ask 🥰

[babel2001]

In the sixteenth century and for a long time afterwards, in short, the Middle Ages was never simply a chronological concept, never simply a past time firmly fixed in the past. It was an ideological state of being, a state of historical development that might return and in fact could be re-entered much more easily than it could be left behind. Sermons of the period repeatedly warn against precisely this possibility: John Jewel, bishop of Salisbury under Elizabeth, was one who preached vigilance against Catholics who might bring back darkness, concerned that those who “rauine and spoyle the house of God” and by means of whom “forraine power, of which this realme by the mercie of God is happely delyuered, shall agayne be brought in vpon vs,” and warning that “Suche thinges shalbe done vnto vs, as we before suffered: the truth of God shalbe taken away, the holy scriptures burnt and consumed in fire.” The overall mode here might be an admonitory subjunctive, but the simple future tenses rhetorically propose something that will happen.

Later, when interest in the medieval period was revived in the second half of the eighteenth century, the original threat of a Middle Ages that might return had greatly diminished. In the eighteenth century, as Linda Colley has argued, Great Britain was consolidating itself as a protestant nation and a British Empire was being founded in the 1760s on the gains made in the Seven Years War. If Britain still demonised Catholicism, it nevertheless did so without quite the same sense, as in Elizabethan England, that Catholicism was always set to pounce on an unwary nation. It was then possible for such ministers of the Church of England as Thomas Percy to revive interest in the Middle Ages without provoking fears of an immediate lapse into Catholic superstition. It was possible for people to construct around themselves renewed medieval spaces – as Horace Walpole did with his house at Strawberry Hill – without threatening the immediate return of the medieval repressed. Hence the foundations were laid for a more scholarly approach to the Middle Ages in the 1760s, the period known as the Medieval or Romantic revival.

The initial impulses of the revival grew out of antiquarianism. In the eighteenth century all kinds of antiquities became the focus of interest – neolithic and Iron Age remains, coins, ballads and early poetry, folklore – as part of a general turn to the primitive. There was then a discovery of the past, in some cases quite literally a dis-covering as artefacts were unearthed, manuscripts retrieved, old tombs broken open. Out of disparate antiquarian impulses arose, in the medievalist sphere, such classic works as Richard Hurd’s Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762); Thomas Percy’s ballad collection, The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765); Horace Walpole’s novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), Thomas Tyrwhitt’s edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1775), and the three-volume scholarly work by Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry (1774–81).

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Even as artefacts were dug out of the ground, oral ballads transcribed, and manuscripts retrieved from oblivion, the condition of this so-called revival was that nothing would actually come back to life. The Medieval Revival, by transforming the Middle Ages into a new object of study, in fact revived nothing, but rather secured the period as part of the dead past. This was History. At least implicit in this antiquarianism was the underlying eighteenth-century sense of historical progress; nothing had ever reached such a state of improvement as it now enjoyed. Correspondingly, there was little threat that the past might return. Medieval studies, which grew out of the amateur efforts of Percy, Scott, and others, would eventually deliver the Middle Ages as a historical period, fixed in the past.

And yet, acceptable as an interest in the Middle Ages became in the course of the nineteenth century, a strange temporality, as I want to show here, has persisted in all eras in ideas of the Middle Ages. “Historical linearity,” Bettina Bildhauer and Anke Bernau write, “quickly proves an unsatisfactory model when seeking to understand contemporary investments in the medieval past.” And while they refer specifically to films about the Middle Ages, the remark is more generally true. We might think of the vision of a discontinuous history that results as a queer one. Carolyn Dinshaw, thinking in particular of mystical experience and Margery Kempe, writes: “in my view a history that reckons in the most expansive way possible with how people exist in time, with what it feels like to be a body in time, or in multiple times, or out of time, is a queer history – whatever else it might be.”

Matthews, David. “‘Welcome to the Current Middle Ages’: Asynchronous Medievalism.” In Medievalism: A Critical History. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt6wpbdd.9