Monday, March 22, 2010

What Spain Was Like Comments

Rating: 2.8

Spain was a taut, dry drum-head
Daily beating a dull thud
Flatlands and eagle's nest
Silence lashed by the storm.
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Pablo Neruda
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Dr Antony Theodore 19 June 2020

With blood and metal, blue and victorious Proletarian Spain, made of petals and bullets Unique, alive, asleep - resounding. very fine poem. tony

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Hebert Logerie Sr. 10 January 2020

Pablo Neruba was a poet, a diplomat from Chile, who opposed the dictator, crazy Pinochet.

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Dominic Windram 10 January 2020

Neruda employs stunning surreal imagery to describe the duelling natures of the Spanish Civil War.

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Denis Mair 10 January 2020

Thanks for your concise, excellent interpretation.

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Mahtab Bangalee 10 January 2020

Proletarian Spain, made of petals and bullets Unique, alive, asleep - resounding.../// wondering me

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Susan Williams 17 November 2015

I just traveled Spain - he loves Spain like he loves women- -intimately and to the depth of the soul

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Sally Plumb Plumb 01 October 2010

A man who knew and loved his country.

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Max Carter-Mazak 05 August 2018

He isn't even Spanish but yep

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