Can someone please explain to me what makes Pablo Neruda so good?

because his dad didn't want him to be a poet and he proved him wrong

if you are not reading a book in its original language, your opinion is invalid

I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda.

>>9163857
So you read the Heliand in Old Saxon?

>>9163865
i just don't read it, BUT if you don't you have to take in count that before judging something

>>9163443
>reading translated poetry
lmao

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>>9163443
He, Wordsworth, and a hundred venerated others are just so, so dull.

Seriously, aside from Eliot, Rilke, and some of Yeats, which poets aren't insufferable?

Things like "Farm Implements and Rutabagas In a Landscape" are fun and funny, but who writes like poetry like Eliot?

>>9163916
blake my nigga

>>9163860

perhaps the only good thing to come about because of him

>>9163443
Because Neruda was a commie and the left-wing cultural establishment loves commies, even if they are talentless hacks, e.g. Sartre, Foucault, Brecht

Right-wing geniuses like Borges on the other hand are always discriminated against.

>>9163919
Blake is weird, weird exception.

Things like "The Tyger" that just kind of echo this hysterical mystical sentiment over and over really fucking suck.

But when Joyce abstracts from him he gets brilliant stuff--the ruin of all things, shattered glass and toppled masonry, times livid final flame. I don't know if that's Joyce being Joyce or a property of Blake.