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[narsila]

Gemma Chan photographed by Annie Lai for Porter Edit (November 2021)

[sharp-tender-shock-deactivated2]

This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

[headspace-hotel]

I hate that my aesthetic sense agrees with this but everything you just said was correct

[headspace-hotel]

I went back to dig up this post because I was thinking about poetry.

This is one of those non-poem things that are among my favorite poems.

As the OP stated, the use of alliterative consonants is aesthetically just great, especially the placement of the strongest use at the end: “fuck him on the floor.” The use of “chintz” is indeed great word choice.

Because I’m insane, decided to scan the poem:

Not only is the second sentence, indeed, perfect iambic pentameter, the entire poem is perfectly metered, though the first sentence has four iambs rather than five.

There are further things I love about this poem, though: I like the casual connotations of “keep it real” juxtaposed with “chintz.” It causes me to interpret the “chintz” more strongly as meaning something fake, a facade. There is also of course the coarseness of “fuck,” which is a contrast with “chintz” but a different kind of contrast, gutsy and carnal where “chintz” is flimsy and inanimate.

And then there is the storytelling: there is SO MUCH storytelling in just these two lines. To break it down: The speaker is having sex with a married man, in the house he shares with his wife, which is “filled with chintz”—something that here connotes fakeness, in contrast with “keep it real.”

The illicit encounter in the poem takes place within a house filled with facade, the flimsy construction of the wife’s marriage and domestic sphere, but the encounter itself is a taste of something “real.” That’s a story, and it’s just two lines.

This is EIGHTEEN SYLLABLES, y’all. The amount of meaning condensed into these eighteen syllables is stunning, and it is so elegantly done.

From a technical standpoint (and ive taken 300- and 400-level poetry classes so I can say this) this is damn near flawless as a poem.

[agent-octopus]

Kept thinking about this ever since I saw it and had to do something

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there's art now

[jetlaggingbehind]

[tato-acm]

terça - feira   09 . 04 . 2019

Cobalt Empire  -  01. Jane Eleanor Cobalt

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segunda-feira  21.01.2019

Tangled Like Us - Krista & Becca Ritchie

“ ne  fais  pas  mes  erreurs,  mon  coeur ”

[papencuts]

attention young royals fans!

try this playlist!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7ngjtDui0fCcWXu2loRLZu?si=f1052138d3214ad2

[papencuts]

attention young royals fans!

try this playlist!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7ngjtDui0fCcWXu2loRLZu?si=f1052138d3214ad2

[templeofapelles]

Study of bird wings Leonardo Da Vinci

[kuutamosonaatti]

The Girl King (2015) | dir. Mika Kaurismäki

[charlottearthistory]

‘germanic warrior with helmet’ - osmar schindler (1902)

[antihumanism]

The second best thing about erotic art is seeing people reject their initial reaction to it. The comments are full of people saying “oh my first thought was,” and, yeah, your first thought was right. The barbarian youth is sexually dominating the old Roman order. If you actually could get your mind out of the gutter you’d be the first animal to ever do so.

[lets-talk-about-sects]

[longlivedarkacademia]

ok yeah richard papen is the epitome of no thoughts head empty but he was actually very clever in saying he did not give a flying fuck when lying instead of making something up

[darkacademiasworld]

Dark Academia Fashion Inspiration

[saint-rouge]

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Because I am a man of my word, and many of you expressed interest on the original post, I finally got a cassette player. Here is the prologue of the abridged Secret History audiobook, read by Robert Sean Leonard. Enjoy

[saint-rouge]

The Secret History Audiobook on Cassette. Read by Robert Sean Leonard

[kash-cinema]

Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971) dir. Robert Bresson

[kingthcrin]

“In that one brief moment, I actually wondered if “okay” or something like it might still be possible. But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”

[skcgsra]

EMERALD ACADEMIA: a playlist.

secret societies, poisoned ink, green velvet blazers, rainy train rides through marshland, toxic plants growing in the university greenhouse, illicit love affairs in the old study, nights of poetry and mind-altering substances.

(features dreampop, classical, rock and folk.)

[etherea1ity]

But I can see us lost in the memory

August slipped away into a moment in time

'Cause it was never mine