ATTN: Artsy Beta NFs

[discojoe]

Should I buy the complete works of Robert Frost?

[discojoe]

silverchris please answer.

[redbaron]

I'm not silverchris but I vote yes. he's very accessible for non-literature types and has some quite lovely pieces such as Birches by Robert Frost, which is one of my faves.

[Crispy]

My ENFj English professor adores him. He seemed decent for poetry.

[Gilly]

He's alright. I wouldn't call him transcendental or anything like that, but he spouts some ok memes, and once in a while he hits the nail. Nothing really special, though, and I would never buy his collected works for any reason other than to look good on the shelf.

Read The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury for some good classic Beta NF literature.

[discojoe]

He's alright. I wouldn't call him transcendental or anything like that, but he spouts some ok memes, and once in a while he hits the nail. Nothing really special, though, and I would never buy his collected works for any reason other than to look good on the shelf.

Read The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury for some good classic Beta NF literature.

All right I will get that and the Frost.

Thanks losers.

[Trevor]

He VIs INFp fwiw

[discojoe]

He VIs INFp fwiw

Frost?

[Trevor]

Frost?

Yes.

[silverchris9]

No way in hell is he IEI.

Sorry I wasn't on the forum. I'm drowning in papers instead. I have a paper due in 8 hours that I thought I didn't even have to do for tonight. I'm pretty pissed about this.

I like Frost alright, and he's a good introduction, not too difficult to enjoy on a basic level. He has some wonderful moments, and he has a really convincing style. On the other hand, he doesn't give you the same immediate shock of wonder that, say, Shelley does (Ode to the West Wind... mmmm...). But he's a good place to start, because so much of what we think of as "poetry" is really marked by his idiom (and Tennyson's, still, although I don't know how or why). I really like "Design" and "Fire and Ice" and there's one about a speck that someone once explained to me really well, so I like that one now.

Also, I wish I had been on, because now that I think about it, much of Yeats (especially middle period like "Adam's Curse," but also some later stuff like "The Circus Animals' Desertion") is equally readable, but also, honestly, better. And I feel like Frost will only take you so far before you need another poet, whereas Yeats will take you from the bottom to the top on the ladder of "more difficult pleasures" (as will Shakespeare, Dickens and Jane Austen, all to a greater degree than Yeats). And what is better than "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"?

Yay for an excuse to talk about poetry!

[Rubicon]

And I feel like Frost will only take you so far before you need another poet, whereas Yeats will take you from the bottom to the top on the ladder of "more difficult pleasures" (as will Shakespeare, Dickens and Jane Austen, all to a greater degree than Yeats). And what is better than "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"?

What type do you think Dickens is?

[silverchris9]

What type do you think Dickens is?

EIE. Clear Si-polr. He actually died by doing his super high-enthusiasm readings to the point of exhausting his already frail body. In other words, he emphasized Fe emotional expression to such a great degree that he completely ignored the Si demands of his body. Sad story really.

[Rubicon]

EIE. Clear Si-polr. He actually died by doing his super high-enthusiasm readings to the point of exhausting his already frail body. In other words, he emphasized Fe emotional expression to such a great degree that he completely ignored the Si demands of his body. Sad story really.

Ah I see. Dicken's books are sheer perfection imo. Si PoLR ftw. :-p

[Gilly]

All right I will get that and the Frost.

Thanks losers.

Welcome jock.