The Complete Poetical Works Of Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Allan Poe Bütün Şiirleri)
Her şeyden önce polisiye romanın mucidi olarak bilinen Edgar Allan Poe gerçekten takdir ettiğim ve sevdiğim bir yazardır. Bugüne kadar bir çok kısa öyküsünü okuduğum yazarın ancak şimdi şiirlerini okumaya nail olabildim. Ve itiraf etmeliyim ki şiir seven biri olarak kendisinin eserlerine bayıldım. Özellikle çok sevdiğim, etkisinde kaldığım birkaç
84 syf.
8/10 puan verdi
the first half was well written. I felt his pain and his longing. the second half was okay. i didn't underline as much as the first one. reading this book made me realize that I don't enjoy reading poetry in Turkish.
4/5 Stars (%75/100)
Considering that Bodkin published in 1934, it is very impressive that you can still use it in many ways. I had to read this book because I plan to use it for my thesis and I admit that it is a difficult read, especially for a Master's student. Yet, I learned a lot of things and I am sure I'll quote many things from Bodkin as it is a good point of start in archetypal literary criticism. However, there were parts when Bodkin went on and on and I often felt lost as not all of the book will be useful to me. After many days, I am glad I am done with reading but I'll still come back and check certain things. Overall, it is a good source for people who study archetypes and even more useful if you are also interested in poetry.
"Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry."
Sylvia Plath's poems are picture which has many blue, black and red colors.
Better than Rupi Kaur but still pretty bad
2/5 Stars (%34/100)
Another "instapoet" who became a writer because of their popularity on social media. Before you yell at me let me clear one thing; I am not anti-feminist nor I have any grudge against women or anyone who identify themself as women. I didn't like this book rather I found it okay because of the writing only. With that out of the way let me talk about the book itself.
First of all, this not a poetry book. I refuse to accept the "things" that are in this book as poetry. This is the case of Rupi Kaur all over again.
when you write
like this
people like it
it seems
The so called poetry in the book looks like this. They are not beautiful or make sense at all. However, some of the prose was actually interesting. Perhaps the only thing that made me read the book is the fact that Gill talked about lesser goddesses and other women who stayed in the background because they are wives of great heroes. This is why it was good to read more things about them. However, most of them were still boring and painful to go through. Like Rupi Kaur, she is trying too hard and it is obvious when you read it as well. I would have DNF it but I finished it nonetheless.
In short, the "poems" in this book are terrible. The prose is okay but most of them are still cringy and boring. It is good that Greek mythology is getting more recognition in contemporary literature and it was also interesting to read about certain women who are less known by people.
4/5 Stars (%79/100)
The book is split into three main parts; the introduction, death poems by zen monks and finally death poems by haiku writers which is definitely my favourite. I advise you not to skip the introduction because you learn a great deal about the place of poetry in Japan and a lot of technical information about haikus and death poems. Though zen monks' poems were interesting, I found haiku writers' poems much powerful and beautiful. I've always liked haikus and tried to write a couple myself.
There were a lot of poems that I highlighted and I plan to read this book at least once more. I loved that the author (rather editor or compiler) decided to put the original poems in Japanese as well as certain information about the author, the poem or the time period in which it was written. Not only you get to read a bunch of beautiful and sad poems, but you also learn a lot of Japanese phrases, words, and also their culture and way of living. It was especially sad to read poems from authors who died in their 30s and 40s. It was also interesting that most of these men were ordinary. (Some are poets, some are writers, some farmer, some monk etc.) Finally, I learned that Ryunosuke Akutagawa wrote some haikus under the name Gaki and the famous painter Hokusai (who painted The Great Wave of Kanagawa) also wrote haikus.
I really liked the book in general. Beautiful poems, lots of interesting information about the writers and poems, and it is very well organized.
