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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Neruda has a reputation for being a love poet so I expected a variety of cheesy poems with a few stanzas of poetic gold thrown in (since he must be famous for a reason).
Yeah, I was wrong. The poems cover a wide spread of human experiences. They are all really good.
Took me a long time to read because I had to really slow way down to digest the lines.
Yeah, I was wrong. The poems cover a wide spread of human experiences. They are all really good.
Took me a long time to read because I had to really slow way down to digest the lines.
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
very fun to have to engage the poetry-enjoying gears of the brain for once!
reflective
I kind of forgot I was reading this for a while, I'd pick it up and put it down for long stretches of time. I'm not a big poetry person, but I'm glad I read Neruda. Like a basic bitch I think his best are his love poems, but he also has some good leftist poems as well, such as El Pueblo. (I struggle to rate this bc it's a collection and my opinion varied from loving it to "eh" but never bad) Overall I see why his name is up there in most famous poets ever
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
The order of the poems is weird. I had a much easier and enjoyable time reading these out of order. I recommend starting with the love sonnets, then reading some of the political ones like “I Explain Some Things,” before reading his poetry about nature. His perspective on nature and beauty hit differently after his despair about Chile.
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Read this on the plane on my way to Florida - not the best setting for reading poetry, perhaps. Still, it was a solid collection (though missing a few works I would have expected). I take issue with a couple of the translation choices, but I can respect that every translator comes to a work with their own vision. Overall a well-put-together collection and one I’m sure I’ll revisit in the future.
emotional
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced