#this is a t.s. eliot blog | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

gennsoup · 19 days

Text

Words strain, Crack, and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still. Shrieking voices Scolding, mocking, or merely chattering, Always assail them.

T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton

#T.S. Eliot #Burnt Norton #words #tension #decay #voices #poetry #poetry quotes #British literature #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes #books #text

22 notes · View notes

yorgunherakles · 23 days

Text

ay gibi parladığın doğru, güneş olup yaktığın da.

simone de beauvoir - love letters

11 notes · View notes

dusleraleminde · 2 years

Text

📜Belki de ihtiyacımız olan tek şey, değer verince değişmeyen insanlardır.✨

~T. S. Eliot

#dusleraleminde #post #postlarım #mypost #newpost #blog post #tumblr postları #alıntı #sözler #t.s. eliot #tumblrposts #tumblr #aesthetic

31 notes · View notes

hisuianartcorner · 2 years

Text

some doodles from school!

#art blog #traditional art #beginner artist #poc artist #queer artist #doodles #sketch dump #trans artist #portraits #crab #the little crab is a doodle from english #we are studying t.s eliot and in one of his poems prufrock says #that he wishes he were a crab #so hes isolated and warm and comforted #so little crab #tiny #i love him #the crab

4 notes · View notes

llovelymoonn · 1 year

Text

on april

charles bernstein me and my pharaoh... \\ sylvia plath the journals of sylvia plath (via @metamorphesque) \\ alan dugan april \\ t.s. eliot the wasteland (via @poetryofmanya) \\ e.e. cummings 95 poems, complete poems of e.e. cummings: 1904-1962: “first robin the;” (via @soracities) \\ georgia rebecca (@fleursdesmorts) tenebrous \\ edna st. vincent millay spring \\ sylvia plath the unabridged journals

support this blog

1K notes · View notes

malusokay · 4 months

Note

serious, important, gigantic question i have . how do i start writing poetry? i'm really interested but just can't get myself started, lol. also what're some of ur fav books currently? i'm trying to get more into literature. love ur blog btw!

oh I love this question!!

I believe becoming a poet begins with being an avid reader. Once you develop a love for reading, writing will come naturally as you start to note simple observations from your daily life or random thoughts that come to mind... As you continue to write, you'll gradually develop a better understanding of words. This will allow you to become more discerning in your writing, carefully selecting words and being mindful of how you structure your sentences to convey emotions and imagery... slowly You'll probably begin to dip into poetry, even if it's terrible at first, it's a necessary stage that everyone goes through (I could write an entire post on why creating bad art is so critical lol). The key is to keep writing. Write. Write. Write. And write. It's strange how addictive writing becomes once you get the hang of it… this year alone, I wrote hundreds of poems!!

So to summarize: Reading -> writing -> Poetry

here are some writers and writings I'd recommend to anyone who wants to get into poetry:

(I got a bit carried away while writing this list lol…)

T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Four Quartets

Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Tell-Tale Heart

Homer: The Odyssey

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself

Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy (includes Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso)

John Milton: Paradise Lost

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

Emily Dickinson: Because I could not stop for Death, Hope is the thing with feathers, I’m Nobody! Who are you?

Sylvia Plath: Ariel, Lady Lazarus, Daddy

Maya Angelou: Still I Rise, Phenomenal Woman, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (autobiographical prose)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnet 43 (How Do I Love Thee?), Aurora Leigh (a novel in verse)

my personal obsession lies in ancient poetry (Greek, to be specific), though I understand that it may not be everyone's cup of tea. But if you want to know more about that — or have any more literature-related questions in general — please let me know or send me another ask, and I'll be happy to share more!! <3

#malusokay #girl blogger #askmalu #literature #poetry #writing

112 notes · View notes

maystarrs · 21 days

Text

𝐨𝐧 𝐦.𝐰. 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐫.

✩°｡⋆🎧: star | 18 | she/her

— i am an english and sociology student from the united states, and this is my blog for everything poetry. some days i may share my own, and some days i may not. my poems are inspired by my loves, passions, and anything from my own life and heart. if you enjoy anything i share, please feel free to stick around.

my heart is for... → 90s grunge bands, dr. pepper, red flowers, the crow & many (many) other films, vampires, dogs, decades not my own, ballpoint pens, vinyl, my unnamed love

my poetic influences → romance-era poets, grunge music, edgar allan poe, t.s. eliot, layne staley, kurt cobain, hozier

my other hobbies → journaling, vinyl & cd collecting, watching movies, listening to music, playing piano & flute

please note that i do not follow from this blog.

18+ only, please.

#poetry blog #blog intro #meet the admin #intro post #pinned post #poets on tumblr #writers and poets #poetblr #grunge

3 notes · View notes

broke-on-books · 14 days

Note

May I ask about your beef with T.S. Elliott? I don't know much about him, but I'm curious as to your opinions on him.

Um well I don't like Eliot for many reasons (I wrote a whole blog post on this for school haha) so I'll try to make it quick but it really breaks down to three subjects for me

1. His personal life

2. His actual body of work

3. His reception and legacy

In terms of personal life, he of course really sucked, like (this is from memory so there may be mistakes) he institutionalized his wife and didn't visit her for a decade (and she died in the institution), he also was publically antisemitic, and very, very good friends (like besties) with Ezra Pound, the poet whose most famous poem is his 800 page lament on the fall of Mussolini and spent all of wwii betraying his country and making + promoting axis propaganda, so that's just like a whole can of worms there to unpack.

With his like actual work stuff, this is probably where I give him the most leeway bc he has a few lines that genuinely go really fucking hard. Like there are some lines where I 100% understand why he is a behemoth in the world of poetry. Like "this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper" and "do I dare disturb the universe? In a minute there is time for decision and revisions which a minute can reverse" and "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" all go so hard. They do. This is true. But the rest of his work is just really nonsensical to me (and I've read his most famous pieces many times) and requires heavy academic investment to try and understand. I'm talking like intense knowledge of classical and medieval works, at least 3 languages besides English, etc.

Like there's more deciphering involved than actual poetry (I think in the book for the Waste Land there literally is more end notes than poem. And that poem is Long). And like this feeds into the third point I have which is the reception of his stuff and how I hate that T S Eliot is put up as like "total genius, greatest of all time, PINNACLE of poetry" by some people. Because I very think it starts falling into an elitist attitude of "getting" Eliot and seeing like deciphering these pieces as some sort of accomplishment on its own in a way that doesn't feel genuine to me.

Like there's just something off there about the vibes to me. That for some people they care more abt "understanding" Eliot then engaging w the themes of the poems themselves and then just brag about reading Eliot a lot (and likely Pound too and much of the imagist movement) in a way that again I just don't like.

And I think doing this and lifting Eliot up so high when his poetry is in the style it is actually hurt poetry a bit as an art form because like. It is what poetry haters accuse poetry of being like it's inaccessible, complicated, hard to read, and people get snobby about it. And I think people see that and get the wrong idea or confirm wrong ideas they had about poetry as a whole from his work which breaks me heart.

TLDR Eliot has a couple lines I think are absolute fire, but I dislike most of work. I don't like the imprint him and his reputation have had in regard to poetry, and I think he was a horrible human being.

& Every once and a while I'll read some of his more popular poems to check that they're still bad and pay a visit to the one line I like hidden within 60 bad ones

#also im not saying that his stuff isnt interesting if you get all the references. its possible that it is and really is that amazing or #whatever. i just dont speak french and italian and sanskrit and have deep knowledge of myths and texts (classic and medieval) from like #all of europe and also india. like ahduahdhr cmon #not trying to sound anti intellectual here because i definitely not and if you enjoy eliot go for it. again there are pieces i like #im just not a fan of the attitude around him and his stuff is purposely obtuse and i think that should be said #that its not the standard or the norm or the goal or the ANYTHING of poetry. its just a poem that ppl can decide they like or dont #<that comment amd much of this post is abt the waste land btw #hope that makes you happy anon

3 notes · View notes

tunedtostatic · 1 month

Text

tagged by @ante--meridiem

Currently reading: I'm on the verge of quitting The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood, not because it's objectively bad but because I'm not enjoying it for reasons I might noodle on about on my book blog. I have a stack of library books so I'm not sure what I'll try next.

Currently watching: @sinceyouaskedme recommended Mic the Snare and I've been watching some of his discography deep dives, which led to a very funny situation where I watched the one about Radiohead and then listened to Ok Computer by Radiohead for the first time (regarded by many as one of the greatest albums of all time), and it was very good, and I was like, I can't go online and be like "Oh my god you guys I'm sure know one else knows this but did you know Ok Computer by Radiohead is good?!"

Currently obsessed with: I looked up what turned out to be The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats on Friday because I was trying to figure out where one of its lines came from, and first of all holy shit I did not realize how much it is to 20th-21th century literature and pop culture as Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen is to ao3. All those are from the same poem? Second of all, it's very good (much like Ok Computer by Radiohead is very good, one could say 🙂). I ended up looking up a list of ultra-famous poems, because I realized that not having taken any lit classes beyond high school means there are many ultra-famous poems that I haven't ever come across. I'm resisting the urge to say something defensive, because not knowing certain poems when you could have Taken The Initiative And Looked Them Up Whenever is something people get so wildly mean about, like hiking, but I didn't and who cares. And now I have! (Did you guys know The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is also very good?!)

Last song listened to: Silence by Lizz Wright, best known round this blog for being the artist I discovered by getting her 2008 album The Orchard buying thrift store CDs last summer, which I then listened to for months because. I mean. When I went to get that link I paused writing this for two minutes to relisten to the first half of the first track because 😭😭❗❗, 10/10 Ok Computers by Radiohead, source: dude trust me. Also previously seen round this blog for Goodbye on (ironically) the Astrid-Caleb reunion, race you to the top section of my Astrid fanmix ("so you take the high road/and I'll take the low" indeed).

Silence is also from her first 2003 album, and I cagily didn't link it first because I feel like it's a little less overtly knock your socks off, but it too is !! (I feel like it really kicks off at the end of the second verse with the vocals and instrumentals on "that silence is a song.")

tagging with no pressure to do it, @sinceyouaskedme @perpetualnovelboyfriend @smirk47 @cindereleanor

#music #i haven't looked up any analysis of the waste land yet because i wanted to let it percolate first #but i want to so i can. you know. actually get the vast majority of the references. that poem is all reference (okay not all).#not commenting on the whiteness and maleness of ultra-famous poems lists since i assume we all have noticed #but i did read poetry foundation's bio of yeats and take a moment to be glad that guy did not have twitter

5 notes · View notes

daimonclub · 6 months

Text

Halloween great quotes

Halloween great quotes and aphorisms Halloween great quotes and aphorisms, 50 famous and amazing ideas for your pleasure by the World of English or English-culture.com blog Halloween for the year 2022 is celebrated/observed on Monday, October 31st. What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness – for then The spirits of the dead, who stood In life before thee, are again In death around thee, and their will Shall overshadow thee; be still. Edgar Allan Poe If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Doug Coupland The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. H P Lovecraft Be wary then; best safety lies in fear. William Shakespeare Treats and tricks. Witch broomsticks. Jack-o-lanterns Lick their lips. Crows and cats. Vampire bats. Capes and fangs And pointed hats. Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween’s Upon us now. Richelle E. Goodrich It’s Halloween, The night we all play, Trick or treat, We won’t go away. Be we ghoul or goblin, ghost, We’ll knock on your door, To see who scares you the most. Anthony T.Hincks Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds. The Halloween wind was blowing, not a blasting of wind but a right-sized swelling, falling, and gushing of wind. It was a lovely and exciting night, exactly the kind of night Halloween should be.” Eleanor Estes The jack-o-lantern follows me with tapered, glowing eyes. His yellow teeth grin evily. His cackle I despise. But I shall have the final laugh when Halloween is through. This pumpkin king I’ll split in half to make a pie for two.” Richelle E. Goodrich There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight. Anonymous Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen. Voices whisper in the trees, “Tonight is Halloween!” Dexter Kozen On Hallows Eve, we witches meet to broil and bubble tasty treats like goblin thumbs with venom dip, crisp bat wings, and fried fingertips. Richelle E. Goodrich Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October’s days. Author Unknown

Halloween quotes by English-culture Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Christmas and the others can end up making you sad, because you know you should be happy. But on Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be” Ava Dellaira Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Tobin Bell Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. William Shakespeare When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, ‘tis near Halloween. Author Unknown We are born from the star dust, and there we have to come back, under some nice carpets, to enjoy some cheerful Halloween parties! Carl William Brown Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. Miguel de Cervantes There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask. Colette On ol' Halloween Night These monsters join the living If they had it their way They'd stay until Thanksgiving. Casey Browning Halloween wraps fear in innocence, As though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat... Nicholas Gordon Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee. Michael Dirda Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today. Greg Cipes Halloween is bigger than Christmas in America. I've experienced it in New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., and if you're in the right neighbourhood, every house is decorated with spooky ghosts, spider webs, and jack-o-lanterns. Rhys Darby

Halloween best quotes ever If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too. Cassandra Peterson Where there is no imagination there is no horror. Arthur Conan Doyle People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim. Amity Shlaes This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him. Conan O'Brien On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they're also allowed to take candy from strangers - the scariest thing of all. Kate Christensen Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special. Chris Rock Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold. Judith Olney True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen. Author Unknown They that are born on Halloween shall see more than other folk. Saying of unknown origin Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many. Robert Kirby

Halloween best quotes and decorations Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many. Robert KirbyWhen black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, May luck be yours on Halloween. Author Unknown When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, May luck be yours on Halloween. Author Unknown It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright. Erin Morgenstern Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas. Robert Englund I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?' Drew Carey There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. Jean Baudrillard In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day... that was celebrated on November 5th with things like bonfires and fireworks... I think that made Halloween seem preferable. The idea of having pumpkins and costumes and parties seemed much more appealing than burning down your neighborhood. Lisa Morton In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats. Rosecrans Baldwin On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease. Derrick Rose I'm not a real Halloween kind of guy, because Halloween is every day. Al Jourgensen

Halloween quote by the great poet Poe For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the '30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered banning Halloween in many cities, but instead, parents got together and came up with party ideas for kids, and a lot of them involved dressing up and costuming. Lisa Morton There haven't been organized protests, but I have heard of protests where people have wanted to celebrate Halloween. Lisa Morton You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it. Tommy Chong I live in New Orleans part of the year, and it's a really fun eating town. I bought two homes there, one to live in and one as an investment. They love to eat, drink and dress up in costumes. There are so many reasons to dress up - Mardi Gras, Halloween, Southern Decadence. Jennifer Coolidge I hear from many a man around Halloween that's dressed up as Mama for Halloween. It's a great costume. Vicki Lawrence I'm a really big fan of all things macabre in general; Halloween happens to be my favorite holiday. Dove Cameron I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all! Joe Nichols I learned to glitter the pumpkins for Halloween not because I went into it thinking, 'I'm going to glitter some pumpkins!' No. I bought all of these big, cold, slimy, disgusting pumpkins and tried to carve them, and it was gross, so I had to find something else to do with them. Glitter was life-changing. Jen Lancaster I hate Halloween. I hate dressing up. I hate - I wear wigs, makeup, costumes every day. Halloween is like, my least favorite holiday. Amy Poehler My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down. Chris Zylka I've never seen 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', I've never seen 'Halloween', I've never seen any of the 'Friday the 13ths.' Lin Shaye Download the pdf file about Halloween History If you like Halloween you can also read the following articles: Halloween great and famous quotes Halloween or All Hallows’ Eve Halloween quotes and aphorisms Halloween death poems http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ceNe5q9xfI Read the full article

#America #aphorisms #dead #dread #Eliot #folk #fun #ghost #halloween #holiday #living #magic #mask #quotes #Shakespeare #speech #star #witching

2 notes · View notes

aestheticvoyage2023 · 9 months

Text

Day 224: Saturday August 12, 2023 - "Settled Saturday"

This was just a really wonderful day. Nothing more flowery needed than that. Audrie was home, and as a small reward for getting up early with William, she let me stay home and have some introvert time on Saturday when where and William went to play with cousins across town. Some nice weekend alone time?! It was more restorative than I can even try to describe. I rested, I caught up on my photo blog, I vegged out and called it bliss. In the afternoon, after taking some time to read my book, I soaked in the pool and did a half hour meditation, sitting where I like to, with my back against the shallow wall, walking straight at the moon and sun on the opposite wall. It looked great all cleaned up from the gardening crew that tore through here earlier this month! Just as the nice peaceful meditation ended, rain started to hit the pool - finally we got a little rain, even if it was the small sunny sky kind of rain - it was the first we'd gotten in over a week. I sat in the pool and enjoyed it, and the smells. Just a really settled in kind of Saturday. I was happy and content, and satisfied with the thing Id been begging the universe for!

Song: Spectre Jones - Sturdy

Quote: “I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.” ― T.S. Eliot

2 notes · View notes

yorgunherakles · 11 days

Text

kırık taşlar bulmak isterdim kollarında; kırık taşlar, herakleitos'tan parçalar.

odisseus elitis - the monogram

9 notes · View notes

jonismitchell · 2 years

Note

what are some quotes or poems that you love or make you scream

okay! tonight you're all going to be treated to some very long ask responses so i achieve my final form as an ask blog. here we go.

POEMS + QUOTES FROM EACH

mad girl's love song — sylvia plath (i dreamed that you bewitched me into bed / and sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. / (i think i made you up inside my head.))

the love song of j. alfred prufrock — t.s. eliot (i have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, / and i have seen the eternal footman hold my coat, and snicker, / and in short, i was afraid.)

this be the verse — philip larkin* (man hands on misery to man / it deepens like a coastal shelf / get out as early as you can / and don't have any kids yourself)

the orange — wendy cope (i love you. i'm glad i exist.) & on a train (long, radiant minutes, / your hand in my hand, / still warm, still warm.)

requiem — anna akhmatova (not under foreign skies protection / or saving wings of alien birth – / i was then there – / with whole my nation – / there, where my nation, alas! was.)

romance — arthur rimbaud** (you're in love. taken until the month of august. / you're in love. your sonnets make her laugh)

we lived happily during the war — ilya kaminsky (in the sixth month / of a disastrous reign in the house of money / in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, / our great country of money, we (forgive us) / lived happily during the war.)

poem read at joan mitchell's — frank o'hara (you will live half the year in a house by the sea and half the year in / a house in our arms / we peer into the future and see you happy and hope it is a sign that we / will be happy too, something to cling to, happiness / the least and best of human attainments) & having a coke with you (i look at you and i would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world)

tonight i can almost hear the singing — silvia curbelo (two people rise from a kitchen table / as if to dance. what do they know / about love?)

nothing gold can stay — robert frost (so eden sank to grief, / so dawn goes down to day. / nothing gold can stay.)

litany in which certain things are crossed out — richard siken (actually, you said love, for you, / is larger than the usual romantic love. it's like a religion. it's / terrifying. no one / will ever want to sleep with you.)

after the movie — marie howe (we're walking along west 16th street—a clear unclouded night—and i hear my voice / repeating what i used to say to my husband: love is action, i used to say / to him.)

the second coming — william butler yeats (and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / slouches towards bethlehem to be born?)

stanzas, sexes, seductions — anne carson (my personal poetry is a failure. / i do not want to be a person. / i want to be unbearable.)

*one of my first ever favourite poems **the online english translations of this are underwhelming—read the french if you can. i prefer the translation that starts with 'nothing's serious when you're seventeen'

#obviously there is so much more. but at some point you have to stop yourself #long post #anon #asking with you #i love these kinds of asks btw .

44 notes · View notes

reflections-in-a-critical-eye · 1 year

Note

Ahh BMT I hope you're ok with this kind of 3-way conversation on your blog. I'm the original fashion anon and I just saw the most recent post and I have so many thoughts.

WRT Jimin/W Mag - I agree. I thought the styling was great. I think for me right now, what has my back up in caution against Dior is not their SS show (which is what Jimin shot in for the magazine), or even their pre-fall, which is what both Jimin and Hoseok showed up in to the show- it's explicitly the very distinct and almost odd turn towards both equestrian and explicitly British (and especially Scottish) styling that this specific FW show took. I don't think all Korean stars need to be in distinctly Korean-inspired clothing all the time, but putting them in kilts feels equally weird. It just doesn't fit. Like I said, only time will tell as far as my judgement goes.

And I agree neither Jimin nor Hoseok were show-stoppers, my favourite of all their celeb stylings was Jirayu Tangsrisuk that sheer coat was very good. But god if you want to see a bad suit fit, look at the picture they posed on instagram of poor Eddie Redmayne. If I was on his PR team I would have had that deleted immediately.

As far as a general sports inspiration goes, again we'll see. I think that tennis jacket that Jimin wore to the airport drowned him in a bad way (also LOL at your condom hat anon). It's not that sporty doesn't suit him, it's that this specific brand of explicitly almost hamptons sporty may not suit him.

I agree on the comments re: YSL and other brands. Ultimately, signing a brand deal means signing some freedom away. My desire to see Jimin in one of those glorious bow-necked blouses aside, I hope he chose a brand he feels happy and comfortable with.

Parting thought - some familiarity and observation on these kind of deals tells me that they're usually for "casual" wear only. Which is to say that typically artists reserve the right to style themselves as they see fit in things like music videos. These brand deals come more into play with airport fashion, red carpets, casual appearances, and even then only a portion of the time. It doesn't mean they're literally never allowed to wear any other clothes. See, as an example, how BTS wore all sorts of brands in the Butter music video mere weeks after being announced brand ambassadors for LV. See also how their red carpet styling was awful for a full sixteen months. I expect this is how the members individual contracts will go, but only time will tell.

So I have two fashion anons, it's now confirmed! Yes, I am open to this 3-way conversation or to anyone else with the knowledge. I'm having a good time with these posts.

The aspect of the British, but mostly Scottish influence and a Korean brand ambassador is something that I didn't really think about, but I think it's quite a nuanced situation altogether and sensitive/complicated to navigate. Inspiration and muses come from everywhere and borders are extremely relaxed (as long as it doesn't fall into cultural appropriation, but that's a completely different topic). Kim Jones is English, an artistic director for Dior Homme. He made a collection inspired by very specific British elements (plus the T.S. Eliot poem), as a tribute to YSL, all for a French fashion house. And this is quite common. Perhaps next season could be inspired by something else across the world and a different culture. But this is just the basics, you know this stuff. Sometimes the collection is really tied to someone's heritage or/and political message (remember McQueen's Highland Rape?) and other times it has nothing to do with it. So, in that vein, I wouldn't think of Jimin wearing clothes from this collection to be necessarily a weird choice. It does have specific influences, but the basis is that these brands are creating a globalized Western style. Be it Dior, Chanel, YSL, Valentino, etc. Ultimately, I think someone can make it work as long as it becomes individualized, to a certain degree. What I mean is, regardless of the influences, if Jimin is able to wear it and not be just a "mannequin", then maybe the result will be a good one.

It's interesting that, with Western celebrities that I'm interested in (usually actors) that have brand deals with luxury fashion houses, I never had these questions over their style freedom and identity. It all depends in this case as well. If I look in the past, Catherine Denevue and YSL was a match made in heaven. It's a style identity that everyone will associate her with. Sixty years later and her clothes in Belle de jour are still iconic. Or Givenchy with Audrey Hepburn. These are ideal cases. And now there's this online complain (obviously social media changes the game and we are part of it) about how boring it became all of Kristen Stewart's or Margot Robbie's event appearances because of their respective deals with Chanel. Perhaps a case by case situation makes the most sense. As to Jimin, this is still very early so we're not really shooting in the dark, but I'm also taking the position that we simply can't entirely know how it will turn out until it happens. Although it is fun to talk about it anyway.

I looked up those two you mentioned, Eddie and Jirayu. I saw photos of Eddie yesterday, he was completely forgettable. But in contrast, Robert Pattinson's outfit was something that it made sense for him and it worked. I'll add some photos here for everyone else.

Thanks to you as well for stopping by again. Since I don't have a background in this area, but given that these days this is the hot topic to discuss, I appreciate anyone with more knowledge than me adding some valuable insight to this.

#bmt asks #jimin #jimin dior #fashion anons

8 notes · View notes

fixturesofspirit · 2 years

Text

Blog Post 1: Introduction

Hello,

Welcome to my blog for Advanced Poetry Writing. I have only started writing poetry seriously for the past year. For a brief period in my childhood I loved writing poetry, but my confidence was shaken and I did not pick it back up again until last year. It has brought me so much joy since coming back into my life.

Currently, I understand poetry as a puzzle. Or this is how it feels when I am writing. It is like working on a puzzle, but with these intangible pieces of thought, feeling, image, sound, and rhythm. But that intangible nature does not mean the pieces can be set anywhere. There is right and wrong even in the freest form.

My favorite poets currently are Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Anne Sexton, and William Carlos Williams. Some contemporary (published during my lifetime) poets who I read and really enjoy are Anne Carson, Mary Oliver, Maya Angelou, Richard Wilbur, Wendell Berry, Ron Padgett, and Dana Gioia.

I have read a great many other contemporary poets who are currently celebrated by publishers and poetry magazines. To tell the truth, I dislike the majority of it. I try my best to continue reading the styles being published, but it can be painful to read writing you think is poor or empty. I suppose it is good for a writer to learn how to recognize and articulate what they dislike.

I am full of hopes for the semester and for improving at this thing I love. I wish you all well and am looking forward to working together!

Header Image: Mary L. Macomber, Night and Her Daughter Sleep, 1902, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum.

12 notes · View notes

kaleidescopicmind · 1 year

Text

Welcome to my hot mess of a blog!

Want to know what some of my interests are specifically, that are featured on this blog by means of reblogging/posting of my own content, on here? See down below

Films

Yup theres a lot, but again there may be some scattered posts featuring other films

Addams Family Values

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Black Swan

Cyberpunk/Futuristic films: Ex Machina, Ghost In The Shell, Her, Tron Legacy

Dead Poets Society

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Interstella 555: The 5tory Of The 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

Makoto Shinkai films: Weathering With You, Your Name

Phantom Of The Opera (2004)

Sci-Fi films: Alien & Aliens, Contact, Interstellar, Sunshine

Sofia Coppola films: Lost In Translation, Marie Antoinette, The Virgin Suicides

Studio Ghibli films: Kiki's Delivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, The Secret World Of Arriety, When Marnie Was There, Whisper Of The Heart

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

The Devil Wears Prada

The Red Shoes (1948)

Tim Burton films

Treasure Planet

TV Shows

Avatar The Last Airbender

Flesh & Bone

Penny Dreadful

The Haunting of Hill House & The Haunting of Bly Manor

The Last Of Us

Supernatural

Ugly Betty

Video Games

Alien Isolation

Life Is Strange

Oxenfree

The Last of Us

The Sims 4

Hogwarts Legacy (currently playing)

Anime

Fruits Basket

Kaichou Wa Maid Sama

Ouran Highschool Host Club

Yuri On Ice

The Ancient Magus Bride

Music

My top favourite band, but there may be some scattered posts featuring other artists/bands

Daft Punk: a long time fan since 2010

Poetry

I don't really have a specific genre of poetry I like... but a few points on the poets I currently like:

Walt Whitman - I mostly heard a few of his poems in one of my favourite films of all time, Dead Poets Society, which was shown to me in my highschool Advanced English class. So I grew to be fond of some of his poems featured in that film as well as a few others I discovered on my own.

John Clare - Much like Walt Whitman I heard a few of John Clare's poems recited in the TV show Penny Dreadful, a big time favourite show of mine I revisit every year. So I became curious about romantic poetry through that show and discovered more of his poems in my own time online.

T.S Eliot - I studied a fair few of T.S Eliot's poems in my highschool Advanced English class. Through his poetry I grew fascinated by the darker more modern themes and imagery he addressed and painted in his poems.

Walt Whitman

John Clare

T.S Eliot

ENJOY & HAPPY SCROLLING :)

2 notes · View notes