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no one asked AT ALL but here are my favourite queer poems

six fragments for atthis - sappho

fragment 31 - sappho

a glimpse - walt whitman

we two boys together clinging - walt whitman

funeral blues - w.h. auden

lullaby - w.h. auden

the more loving one - w.h. auden

sonnet 20 - william shakespeare

sonnet 53 - william shakespeare

sonnet 108 - william shakespeare

thank you for your time happy reading

#everyone is sick of me they want me gone #anyways i'm so unwell over all of these poems #some of them aren’t queer QUEER per se. it’s up to interpretation and the speaker could be the opposite gender. but are they really #these are more for myself i want to start a little collection to add on to #and i’ll probably delete and add as my tastes change #but if you want a rec please go ahead. and tell me all about your thoughts #took me a moment to find my favourite translation for sappho 31. although when i found that i found the byron translation #and started laughing. he was making lines up. it was not accurate but at least it was stylish #i can memorise funeral blues word for word by the way. ask and you shall receive i chant it like a mantra #please also for sonnet 20 for your enrichment please please please search up the wikipedia article with the analysis #there is phallic imagery in the syllable count. i'm not kidding #honestly for shakespeare i could just write down all the fair youth sonnets. the list would be never ending #most shakespeare sonnets make me go oOhoHkdjfjlkj every time i read them these are just the ones that make me go the most oOhoHkdjfjlkj #that was a very long rant #but yes #queer #queer poetry #poetry #shakespeare #oscar wilde #sappho #walt whitman #wh auden #what i wish wrote #personal hoard #my posts #literature #nerd hours #i have too many organisational tags

Whos your favorite movie composer

Mahler, hands down. That man writes unbelievable symphonies. The first movement of his 5th and the final of his 2nd are incredible and I have maybe been known to cry listening to them. I thi know I'd ascend to heaven if I heard his 2nd one live. Incredible.

Here's the ending of his 2nd symphony to prove my case (it is half an hour long so if you want, fast forward to the final 4ish minutes. You'll never be the same again)

(Okay and after having read this properly I see that this says MOVIE composer and not just normal composer, but movie composer would be John Williams or Hanz Zimmer)

Ask me stuff about classical music!

#james answers things #classical music #orchestral music #nerd hours #ask me things!#having the best time rn

God. This song just illustrates Maggie Rogers’ genius. As a girl who appreciates a “wall of sound” approach to music, esp with a focus on a strong clear and unique vocal, Maggie Rogers is just That Bitch️™. I’m always impressed when artists can build their chords in ways that aren’t just a guitar strumming them on their own in the background. In this song specifically, she has a bass drone, and she uses these ethereal asynchronous synth/piano notes to build her chord structures. (Because the listener’s ear remembers, if you give them a chance to fill in the gaps.)

And she uses her voice as an intentional part of those chords. Her voice is an instrument in the greater work, the song as a whole. The way she uses the phrasing of her words as rhythmic elements that still sound like they would make sense spoken conversationally, emphasizing the right parts of words in keeping with their meanings. It’s refreshing!!

Not to mention the production. The cool shit that Maggie does that sets her apart. The breath sample as a recurring percussive element. The ethereal vocal oo’s in the bridge that have been manipulated and pushed far back in the mix. She has a “stop/drop” moment on the final if you could *cry*. Her variation on her final *feel* everything you ever caused.

And that’s all without even TOUCHING her lyrical prowess!!! This song that’s about trying to write in a soul-bearing and honest way with someone who is holding back. Her relationship with that person being strained and frustrated. And how that comes through. She paints a clear picture of her individual experience that still works as a self-insert exercise for the listener. A great writer, and specifically a great songwriter, can make the personal Universal.

TLDR: Maggie Rogers is brilliant.