3.99 AVERAGE

challenging slow-paced

3,5/5
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DID NOT FINISH: 32%

reading periodically over the next year will update only final read date

The Preface and Song of Myself are the highlights of this edition. I have read from the "deathbed" edition and there was much I enjoyed like his most read and well known poems. However, there are a lot of poems that are just meh or bad. That book is need of a good edit. A selections from edition would be perfect for the casual reader.
reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: N/A
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Maybe I don’t like poetry

“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”


Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”


Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

Entendi claramente agora porque o autor é chamado o poeta da democracia. Já tinha lidos vários dos poemas isoladamente, mas é a primeira vez que mergulho neste livro completo. Uma boa experiência.
adventurous inspiring reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: N/A
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: N/A
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A