Neruda’s poems were filled with words and connections to nature and stillness. Neruda’s love is rooted in nature and earth, “his feet almost literally rooted in the ground” (Lecture, Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair). This concept of love …
Neruda’s poems were filled with words and connections to nature and stillness. Neruda’s love is rooted in nature and earth, “his feet almost literally rooted in the ground” (Lecture, Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair). This concept of love …
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For this week’s readings, I read “20 love poems and a song of despair” by Paul Neruda. These poems illuminate themes of passion and lust through the use of strong imagery, expressing the human form with the natural elements of the world. This can especially be seen in lines such as: “white bee, you buzz […]
Hello blog readers, This week I chose to read Pablo Neruda’s ‘Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair. At first, I thought it was a beautiful and romantic read. I liked the storytelling narrative of the poems and how each poem guided us through t…
Hello blog readers, This week I chose to read Pablo Neruda’s ‘Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair. At first, I thought it was a beautiful and romantic read. I liked the storytelling narrative of the poems and how each poem guided us through t…
Hi everyone! This week I decided to read Pablo Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems. I am normally not drawn to poetry as a whole as I find that sometimes I just get lost in trying to decipher a meaning from the words rather than just enjoying the art in f…
Hi everyone! This week I decided to read Pablo Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems. I am normally not drawn to poetry as a whole as I find that sometimes I just get lost in trying to decipher a meaning from the words rather than just enjoying the art in f…
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I’m normally not one to read poetry. I find it pretentious and, frankly, confusing but I understand that poetry can convey ideas and concepts that can’t be captured in novels or stories. I just personally don’t enjoy reading it. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda is a collection of poems with […]
This post is a reflection of the poetry collection by Neruda, titled “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair”. Normally, I’m not a big reader of poetry, which is to say that I don’t have the aptitude to appreciate poetry as much as another person who really enjoys literature and poems, but I do tend […]
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I am choosing, for my own sake, to not respond to the possessive manner Neruda describes (and objectifies) the AFAB body, and the violence which undertones it. It’s hard for me to separate the art from the artist, particularly when it’s related to sexual violence. Clearly I hadn’t explored his work deeply enough (or these […]
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