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[sunlit_stone]

Also, when I was reading this I couldn't help but think 'hello, Antonin Dolohov:'

On th' other side up rose
BELIAL, in act more graceful and humane;
A fairer person lost not Heav'n; he seemd
For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
But all was false and hollow; though his Tongue
Dropt Manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest Counsels.

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[lusentoj]

"though his Tongue Dropt Manna"
hmm, i'd play this videogame...

[sunlit_stone]

Hahaha!

Seriously, though, idk if you're a poetry person but if you are you might want to consider giving Paradise Lost a try? It's...good. Which is obvious, but, I mean, I guess, it's...enjoyable to read? Something like that. And it's all in the same style as up there.

"If thou beest he; But O how fall'n! how chang'd
From him, who in the happy Realms of Ligh
Cloth'd with transcendent brightnes didst outshine Myriads though bright: If he whom mutual league,
United thoughts and counsels, equal hope,
And hazard in the Glorious Enterprize,
Joynd with me once, now misery hath joynd
In equal ruin..."

etc.

[lusentoj]

I've never really cared for poetry, I don't know why... Well, what I like in stories/TV shows etc is "characterization" so maybe it's that poems usually lack that. The few poems I like are just showing the same kinds of stuff I like in fiction, ex. I like this one:

https://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9f2cg2cj91rnc3y3o1_1280.jpg

[sunlit_stone]

Oh, yeah, I could see that. I usually like--well, the language. Sometimes the ideas (PL is not the place for that though.)

Hmm, that poem makes me think a little of Edna St. Vincent Millay? It's good I think though it's not particularly my thing.