Comments on: a new look at neruda’s la united fruit co. (II) http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2006/01/02/a-new-look-at-nerudas-la-united-fruit-co-ii/ poetry: a curious look at this 21st century pleasure Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:19:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Laura http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2006/01/02/a-new-look-at-nerudas-la-united-fruit-co-ii/#comment-68 Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:44:43 +0000 http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2006/01/02/a-new-look-at-nerudas-la-united-fruit-co-ii/#comment-68 Zachary--the poem is biblical. don't you get the beginning? past tense. this histrory was happening when neruda was writing the poem and he put it in the past tense. mosca means fly, not maggot it one thing to chose between something like sleeping and slumbering, but who gives you the right to totally change a principle image of the poem. if neruda wanted to say maggot, he would have said maggot as to your point that its better to have bad poems then none at all on the web--again, i totally disagree. i dont want someone to read a poem and think thats pablo when its not. its slanderous, libel, or whatever. its a principle thing. do you change english poems when you post them to your own suit and flavor? no also think that "bannana republic" country sounds completelyl clunky too me neruda says la dulce cintura, not mi dulce centura--again a totally change of context. Zachary–the poem is biblical. don’t you get the beginning? past tense. this histrory was happening when neruda was writing the poem and he put it in the past tense.

mosca means fly, not maggot
it one thing to chose between something like sleeping and slumbering, but who gives you the right to totally change a principle image of the poem. if neruda wanted to say maggot, he would have said maggot

as to your point that its better to have bad poems then none at all on the web–again, i totally disagree. i dont want someone to read a poem and think thats pablo when its not. its slanderous, libel, or whatever. its a principle thing. do you change english poems when you post them to your own suit and flavor? no

also think that “bannana republic” country sounds completelyl clunky too me

neruda says la dulce cintura, not mi dulce centura–again a totally change of context.

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