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Twenty Love Poems & A Song of Despair

veintiún poemas de un poeta triste que sabía hacer bonitas comparaciones de los sentimientos de amor con la naturaleza, pero que a mi personalmente no me transmitieron nada; y que se cree con el derecho de posesión de lo amado.

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4.0

He’s pretty damn good like i feel like a lot of his metaphors are more atmospheric than anything and the whole point is adulation anyway so I don’t have to think too much about whether i “get” it and instead I can just let the feeling sort of well up within me. Reminds me of winterson in that sense. I feel like if I were reading Sidney as some sort of noble living during the Renaissance era, I would feel the same way I do now.

Speaking of Sidney, who I know mostly for being a Nice Guy, Neruda was a rapist. Well, as the kids say, werk. Now that doesn’t make his poem about liking women when they’re “still” disturbing, does it? Well, it very much does. Anyways.

I feel like I can appreciate the work itself on an aesthetic level but also I would not recommend it simply due to moral reasons but I suppose I *am* reviewing it but issok since no one cares too much about my opinions I hope .