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crispymerola's review against another edition
challenging
slow-paced
3.0
Alternative Title - "O White Boi's, My White Boi's"
Reading poetry often brings me back to my confused upbringing, where I pored over psalms and prayers, hoping to feel or understand what it was everyone insisted was so important about Jesus and God. If I only squinted hard enough, or approached the altar of the good book with a pure enough spirit - then, THEN I'd be graced with the understanding that eluded me. I'd get the hype.
Many many days later, I grew up and realized religion wasn't for me. I found that these texts held their power not between their words, but between the people who believed the words.
This is pretty much how I feel about most poetry.
I'm giving up on trying to glean the value in everything I read. Half of these beloved poems are useless to me - empty, horny, dramatic scribblings which conjure no meaningful imagery or make any salient points beyond "gosh, milady, you're beautiful," and, "let's fuck bc we finna die," and, "golly gee, I love God and the trees he made".
Another quarter of the poems have a line or two that made an impression or gave me a thought. The last quarter were truly meaningful, and felt more like fully formed stories or arguments writ in verse. So, let's give this thing three stars and I can continue ignoring poetry until I die.
Reading poetry often brings me back to my confused upbringing, where I pored over psalms and prayers, hoping to feel or understand what it was everyone insisted was so important about Jesus and God. If I only squinted hard enough, or approached the altar of the good book with a pure enough spirit - then, THEN I'd be graced with the understanding that eluded me. I'd get the hype.
Many many days later, I grew up and realized religion wasn't for me. I found that these texts held their power not between their words, but between the people who believed the words.
This is pretty much how I feel about most poetry.
I'm giving up on trying to glean the value in everything I read. Half of these beloved poems are useless to me - empty, horny, dramatic scribblings which conjure no meaningful imagery or make any salient points beyond "gosh, milady, you're beautiful," and, "let's fuck bc we finna die," and, "golly gee, I love God and the trees he made".
Another quarter of the poems have a line or two that made an impression or gave me a thought. The last quarter were truly meaningful, and felt more like fully formed stories or arguments writ in verse. So, let's give this thing three stars and I can continue ignoring poetry until I die.
kkaste's review against another edition
5.0
What’s not to love about these best-loved poems. About half of the poems I was familiar with, so it was nice to visit others I was not familiar with. I am glad I finally read these poems. It was a gift from someone years again and I am so happy to read these lovely poems.
diaryofabookahloic's review against another edition
3.0
Poems are hard for me to review as each one can be pulled apart and pick to pieces and I tend to read for enjoyment and entertainment and my brain isn't critical I never can find the underlining meaning so with this collection there was a few poems that I have read before some more than once and some I never have heard of before. Now the poems with the older English tripped me up a bit. then there was some that I plain didn't care for at all, there were a few hidden gems that I just loved.
bahareads's review against another edition
4.0
Note: Read for school
Great collection of poems,very enjoyable read.
Great collection of poems,very enjoyable read.
iceangel9's review against another edition
5.0
A magnificent collection of poems from some of the best poets of all time.
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