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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
my personal top 3 poems:
1. everyday you play
2. tonight i can write
3. so that you will hear me
1. everyday you play
2. tonight i can write
3. so that you will hear me
emotional
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
Just not really my thing. The poetry felt thick, heavy, weighed down with the weight of its natural imagery and sexual obsession.
reflective
medium-paced
was not that great, but i think it is mostly because of the translation.
q fueron todas estas emociones que ssssenti!!? “Eres como la noche, callada y constelada. Tu silencio es de estrella, tan lejano y sencillo.” “Pienso, camino largamente, mi vida antes de ti. Mi vida antes de nadie, mi áspera vida.” y el icónico “Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.” que me terminó de llenar
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
This small but powerful collection of poems, first published in 1924, should be read by everyone.
It is dense with beautiful writing. I'd read some of these before, as they are included in the 'Collected Poems' (published by Vintage) that I read last year. This book does the same thing as that 'Collected Poems' by publishing the original Spanish next to W.S. Merwin's translations.
This book would be worth reading just for 'Tonight I Can Write' though, which I think is one of the most beautiful love poems I've read. Indeed, I've set myself the task to learn it off by heart because sometimes things are worth remembering properly.
Read this. You'll love it.
It is dense with beautiful writing. I'd read some of these before, as they are included in the 'Collected Poems' (published by Vintage) that I read last year. This book does the same thing as that 'Collected Poems' by publishing the original Spanish next to W.S. Merwin's translations.
This book would be worth reading just for 'Tonight I Can Write' though, which I think is one of the most beautiful love poems I've read. Indeed, I've set myself the task to learn it off by heart because sometimes things are worth remembering properly.
Read this. You'll love it.
emotional
inspiring
sad
wanted to love this book because i enjoyed ‘love poems’ by neruda, but these poems (as a whole) had a self indulgent voice and honestly weren’t very romantic. the women he writes about are always silent and don’t seem to have a lot of depth. there are beautiful and haunting lines, but i guess my expectations were just high.