4.04 AVERAGE

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Quiero hacer contigo
lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.

The summary on the back of his edition (which had an admittedly gorgeous cover) regales it as "one of the most celebrated and admired books of erotic poetry published in the last one hundred years." True, the poems are good. But unless they are a lot more allegorical than I read them to be, I would classify most of the works here as more sensual than erotic. Even by fairly conservative standards, I would say. They are a riot of very evocative natural and domestic imagery, rife with longing and sadness and celebration of intimacy. But I would not really call them erotic- not the way that Whitman is, and certainly not the way many of the poets in the US were writing at the exact same time as Neruda was penning this.

My favorite line?
I want / to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Or perhaps the immortal: "love is so short, and forgetting so long. "
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The youth of today may say this is yearning but this was just a regular tuesday for 20 year old Neruda. To be helplessly, devastatingly in love is a gift that needs to be celebrated. And boy did he celebrate.
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Even with my crappy spanish, it is great to see the poems in their original language next to the english translation. Quite simply, some of the greatest love poetry ever written. Every line, every image, every turn of phrase feels meticulously crafted—layered with devotion, longing, and a haunting kind of melancholy.

So precious:,)

sabéis que pablo neruda era un violador y un maltratador. hmmmmmm.

bueno esq yo no lo sabía y me gustó el poema que nos recitó mi profesora y luego me chocó enterarme.
de todas formas. el señor escribía muy bien. y la oreja de van gogh tiene una canción en honor a este libro parece ser. no la he oído peeeero en inmortal dice “que corto fue el amor y que largo el olvido” asiq yo me lo quería leer.
y pues bueno muy bonito la verdad

quizás debería leer los apuntes en vez del libro que tengo examen el lunesssssss.


pero bueno. esperemos que caiga neruda en el examen chiquillasss

nunca jamás he redactado nada tan mal.
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Hermosos poemas de amor y una canción desesperada absolutamente cautivadoras.
Para aquellos que son amantes de la buena literatura y del amor sincero este libro de poemas hermosamente escritos los dejaran sin palabras, una verdadera obra maestra sin duda alguna y uno de los mejores libros que todo lector debe de leer.