Certain repeated concepts or descriptive words caught my attention, specifically as to how the image of ‘the woman’ was portrayed throughout the poems. Even though there was a noticeable shift in perception of the woman, that was visible to the reader …
Certain repeated concepts or descriptive words caught my attention, specifically as to how the image of ‘the woman’ was portrayed throughout the poems. Even though there was a noticeable shift in perception of the woman, that was visible to the reader …
Hey everyone, I don’t usually partake in poetry, but Pablo Neruda’s “Twenty Love Poems” was an interesting read and really allowed me to paint a picture of how Neruda believes love to be. Neruda used such descriptive imagery to convey the emotions he was feeling. These selection of poems were all over the place, but […]
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I won’t lie. A lot of poetry I have read in the past didn’t particularly catch my attention. Perhaps I didn’t always pay close attention to the intricacies of literary devices used throughout. I always much preferred a ‘typical’ novel that was easy to read–to interpret. But, there is so much beauty in poetry that […]
Pablo Neruda is a poet best remembered for his vivid writings about everyday objects, romanticised through an employment of the most sensual aspects of life in the human senses. Reading his poetry, one can find a man in love with the very pursuit of life’s simple pleasures, if not for the very idea that the […]
In my head, poems are pieces of writing that rhyme, otherwise, it won’t be considered poetry at all. I know this piece of writing can take many different forms, such as a haiku given its 5-7-5 pattern, or now during the more modern world of poetry is spoken poetry. I don’t necessarily enjoy reading poetry, […]
I apologize to Neruda fans in advance for what is essentially a rant. If I’m being honest, I don’t like poetry. With a handful of exceptions (Walt Whitman and T.S. Eliot come to mind), the vast majority of it leaves me completely cold. I wish I could appreciate it better given how much I love […]
This week’s reading was quite a nice refresher compared to the past couple of weeks as it’s all poetry instead of prose. I have heard of Pablo Neruda before, as I am sure most people in this class have, but something that I learned from the lecture and that I find really interesting about this […]
The poems in twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair were very interesting to read and in many ways different from poems I’ve read in the past. Each poem follows this overarching theme of nature and uses this to find the beauty in so many little elemen…
The poems in twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair were very interesting to read and in many ways different from poems I’ve read in the past. Each poem follows this overarching theme of nature and uses this to find the beauty in so many little elemen…
