The Captain's Verses: The Love Poems |
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P Neruda
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Pages: 151 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0811215806
Pub: W. W. Norton & Co.
Pub date: 2004-07-20
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 248039
Reader Reviews:
the heart of Neruda (7/7 people found this helpful)
This is a fabulous dual-language collection of some of the most sensual, passionate poems written in modern times. Whether he imagines himself as an insect making a journey "from your hips to your feet", traveling to distant places with his beloved by his side, or as a soldier who must leave but whose love will "go on singing until the end of life", Neruda writes with exquisite simplicity, and great beauty.
I find this to be the most accessible of Neruda's books that I have read, perhaps because its subject was a central part of his life. As explained in the introduction of the book, these poems are autobiographical, and written about his wife, Matilde Urrutia. First published anonymously in 1952, they were released in 1963 under his own name, but only after much thought, because of their "intimate birth".
The translations by Donald D. Walsh are superb. He has captured the fluid rhythm, the emotion, and the fire.
He was fortunate to have had this remarkable relationship, as well as the ability to express his feelings with such uncommon depth, but for those men who lack Neruda's poetic genius, and who would like to melt the heart of the woman they love, this might be the perfect gift to go along with that bunch of flowers.
Probably the most moving words I have had the joy to read. (6/6 people found this helpful)
From the first words to the last, I found this the most astonishing of works. Neruda captures the true essence of intense feeling. He brings your heart up to the heights and then pulls you down. Such power and passion. A true geneous. If you want a book that moves you, get his.
Very profound and deep. (3/3 people found this helpful)
It made me remember how strongly I felt for my true love. Neruda is fiercely passionate and enchanting. Read 20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair first if you haven't read much of him. It gives you leverage and preparation so you can truly feel his emotion in this one.
Rapture and Pathos brought alive (7/7 people found this helpful)
I picked up this book, never having read Neruda before, and expecting quite good poetry. I had to stop reading, after several poems; Pablo Neruda's love poetry was so intensely powerful that it overwhelmed my senses. He wrote brilliantly and passionately of the feelings of his soul, at once enthralling yet brutally candid. You suffered along him, you loved the woman he loved. The verses he wrote express the ineffable and indescribable. And the earthly images he creates are potent, almost too potent. His poetry fills your senses and enwraps your soul.
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