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Currently, I rediscover with happiness the French poets of the early twentieth century. Decidedly, the surreal nebula was particularly talented, fruitful and innovative. Paul Eluard was one of the greatest, transforming everything he touched into (true) poetry.Capital of Pain (what a beautiful title!) gathers texts written between 1914 and 1926, generally shorter. Some are bolder than others, but all are easy to read.
Some of them seem small masterpieces, others hang a little less my attention, Currently, I rediscover with happiness the French poets of the early twentieth century. Decidedly, the surreal nebula was particularly talented, fruitful and innovative.
Paul Eluard was one of the greatest, transforming everything he touched into (true) poetry.Capital of Pain (what a beautiful title!) gathers texts written between 1914 and 1926, generally shorter. Some are bolder than others, but all are easy to read. Some of them seem small masterpieces, others hang a little less my attention, but almost all sound very good. There are flashes and gently suggestive images, which must not be analyzed too rationally.
Of all the four sections (Repetitions, To Die of Not Dying, The Little Just Ones, New Poems), I like them all the most. From To Die of Not Dying the words deigned to be rewritten, renewed in memory.
New Poems holds gems. Birds fly through the poems, which is one way to say the poet concerns himself with metaphor. Beauty and truth adequately expressed arrive from harmony in moments of syntactic peculiarities. Love and loneliness inundate the poems. This adds to their quality.
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So many favorites in Of all the four sections (Repetitions, To Die of Not Dying, The Little Just Ones, New Poems), I like them all the most. From To Die of Not Dying the words deigned to be rewritten, renewed in memory.
New Poems holds gems. Birds fly through the poems, which is one way to say the poet concerns himself with metaphor. Beauty and truth adequately expressed arrive from harmony in moments of syntactic peculiarities. Love and loneliness inundate the poems. This adds to their quality.
So many favorites in this collection. To name a few: 'Nakedness of the Truth,' 'Giorgio de Chirico' 'She Who May Not Speak,' 'Broad Daylight,' 'Inside the Cylinder of Tribulations,' 'Among Few Others,' 'One,' both the 'Max Ernst' poems, 'Hidden,' and 'In the Dance'.I'll soon have Capitale de la douleur in my hands. I look forward to reading it again in its original form. I can't give this collection enough praise or stars or words. There are some books which change the way you see things and there are some rare books which change the way you see yourself.
Eluard's famed collection of poems does both, but like a lightning bolt for ME, he accomplishes the latter with zeal.This is a book of surrealist poetry which people in the 1920s carried around in their backpacks, argued about in cafes, and read to each other when they were in love and in pain. It's not until y I can't give this collection enough praise or stars or words. There are some books which change the way you see things and there are some rare books which change the way you see yourself. Eluard's famed collection of poems does both, but like a lightning bolt for ME, he accomplishes the latter with zeal.This is a book of surrealist poetry which people in the 1920s carried around in their backpacks, argued about in cafes, and read to each other when they were in love and in pain. It's not until you read these poems that you understand why it had such dramatic effects.Honestly, you need not know very much about surrealism or surrealist poetry, though Mary Ann Caws's essay at the end of the collection is very helpful indeed.
You simply need to approach each poem with fresh teeth, with an open mouth, and with a heart willing to be taught how to read all over again.That sounds like a pretty tall order right? Well, as Darwish famously said 'Extreme clarity is a mystery.' That's a way of saying that though you don't need to be a surrealist poetry lover to appreciate how profound Eluard's poems are, I would argue that you DO need some experience in reading poetry where the center is intuition, analogue, association, 'aboutness.'
In some weird way, it's as if these poems are perfect for children and then for seasoned poetry readers who have returned to reading like children. To insist on meaning or structure or form in the traditional ways we use those words would be to miss Eluard completely.In any case, if you're ready, by all means, enter the capital. I know that I nor my writing will ever be the same after reading Eluard. In my own reading and writing, I naturally found myself peering down the path of the surreal and the unconscious.I would imagine every good poet at some point does.
Eluard's poems (and to some extent, Caws's essay) have quickened in me the spirit to rush that path with my arms ablaze.
Currently, I rediscover with happiness the French poets of the early twentieth century. Decidedly, the surreal nebula was particularly talented, fruitful and innovative. Paul Eluard was one of the greatest, transforming everything he touched into (true) poetry.Capital of Pain (what a beautiful title!) gathers texts written between 1914 and 1926, generally shorter. Some are bolder than others, but all are easy to read. Some of them seem small masterpieces, others hang a little less my attention, Currently, I rediscover with happiness the French poets of the early twentieth century. Decidedly, the surreal nebula was particularly talented, fruitful and innovative. Paul Eluard was one of the greatest, transforming everything he touched into (true) poetry.Capital of Pain (what a beautiful title!) gathers texts written between 1914 and 1926, generally shorter.
Some are bolder than others, but all are easy to read. Some of them seem small masterpieces, others hang a little less my attention, but almost all sound very good. There are flashes and gently suggestive images, which must not be analyzed too rationally. Of all the four sections (Repetitions, To Die of Not Dying, The Little Just Ones, New Poems), I like them all the most.
From To Die of Not Dying the words deigned to be rewritten, renewed in memory. New Poems holds gems. Birds fly through the poems, which is one way to say the poet concerns himself with metaphor.
Beauty and truth adequately expressed arrive from harmony in moments of syntactic peculiarities. Love and loneliness inundate the poems.
This adds to their quality. So many favorites in Of all the four sections (Repetitions, To Die of Not Dying, The Little Just Ones, New Poems), I like them all the most. From To Die of Not Dying the words deigned to be rewritten, renewed in memory.
New Poems holds gems. Birds fly through the poems, which is one way to say the poet concerns himself with metaphor. Beauty and truth adequately expressed arrive from harmony in moments of syntactic peculiarities.
Love and loneliness inundate the poems. This adds to their quality. So many favorites in this collection. To name a few: 'Nakedness of the Truth,' 'Giorgio de Chirico' 'She Who May Not Speak,' 'Broad Daylight,' 'Inside the Cylinder of Tribulations,' 'Among Few Others,' 'One,' both the 'Max Ernst' poems, 'Hidden,' and 'In the Dance'.I'll soon have Capitale de la douleur in my hands. I look forward to reading it again in its original form. I can't give this collection enough praise or stars or words. There are some books which change the way you see things and there are some rare books which change the way you see yourself.
Eluard's famed collection of poems does both, but like a lightning bolt for ME, he accomplishes the latter with zeal.This is a book of surrealist poetry which people in the 1920s carried around in their backpacks, argued about in cafes, and read to each other when they were in love and in pain. It's not until y I can't give this collection enough praise or stars or words. There are some books which change the way you see things and there are some rare books which change the way you see yourself. Eluard's famed collection of poems does both, but like a lightning bolt for ME, he accomplishes the latter with zeal.This is a book of surrealist poetry which people in the 1920s carried around in their backpacks, argued about in cafes, and read to each other when they were in love and in pain. It's not until you read these poems that you understand why it had such dramatic effects.Honestly, you need not know very much about surrealism or surrealist poetry, though Mary Ann Caws's essay at the end of the collection is very helpful indeed. You simply need to approach each poem with fresh teeth, with an open mouth, and with a heart willing to be taught how to read all over again.That sounds like a pretty tall order right?
Well, as Darwish famously said 'Extreme clarity is a mystery.' That's a way of saying that though you don't need to be a surrealist poetry lover to appreciate how profound Eluard's poems are, I would argue that you DO need some experience in reading poetry where the center is intuition, analogue, association, 'aboutness.'
In some weird way, it's as if these poems are perfect for children and then for seasoned poetry readers who have returned to reading like children. To insist on meaning or structure or form in the traditional ways we use those words would be to miss Eluard completely.In any case, if you're ready, by all means, enter the capital. I know that I nor my writing will ever be the same after reading Eluard. In my own reading and writing, I naturally found myself peering down the path of the surreal and the unconscious.I would imagine every good poet at some point does. Eluard's poems (and to some extent, Caws's essay) have quickened in me the spirit to rush that path with my arms ablaze.