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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4048 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 1 of 11 21 January 2015 at 6:07pm | IP Logged |
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Hi guys,
can you suggest me some "accessible" poems in French and Spanish? Although I have a good understanding it would be quite improbable to read poems that are difficult even for natives. Thank you very much in advance! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| anamsc2 Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 4560 days ago 85 posts - 186 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan, German Studies: French | Message 2 of 11 21 January 2015 at 6:21pm | IP Logged |
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I find Pablo Neruda pretty accesible in Spanish. You can find a lot of his poems on the internet and even some readings on Youtube.
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| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5376 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 3 of 11 21 January 2015 at 6:55pm | IP Logged |
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Someone gave me Selected Poems of Jorge Luis Borges. It is a bilingual book of numerous poems. I have not used it yet, but it would be perfect for someone who wants to use poems in Spanish for language learning due to the dual language. There is also a similar book (much smaller) for Pablo Neruda's poems.
Edit: Alba learning is a good source of this type of material too. Edited by James29 on 21 January 2015 at 6:56pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| anamsc2 Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 4560 days ago 85 posts - 186 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan, German Studies: French | Message 4 of 11 21 January 2015 at 9:12pm | IP Logged |
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I also remembered, in high school we did some José Martí, Rubén Darío, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. They were straightforward enough for American high school students, so they'd probably be good for you. I don't particularly like José Martí or Rubén Darío, though.
EDIT: I also just found this website that has tons of poets with some of their poems in Spanish; you can check out some of the poets in recommended in this thread here to get started: http://www.los-poetas.com/ Edited by anamsc2 on 21 January 2015 at 9:16pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| carlyd Groupie United States Joined 3990 days ago 94 posts - 138 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 5 of 11 21 January 2015 at 10:39pm | IP Logged |
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My favorite is Collected Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca--2002 edition, bilingual. My favorites are La Guitarra and Cuando yo me muera.
Another favorite is Pablo Neruda but I found some of his poems a bit too "verde" for me. Still having issues linking here. Collected Poems Collected Poems 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| AlexTG Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 4639 days ago 178 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 6 of 11 22 January 2015 at 12:14am | IP Logged |
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Jaques Prévert is the quintessential accessible poet in French. Try for instance "Déjeuner du matin" and "le cancre". Paul
Éluard is widely loved for his love poetry, see "La courbe de tes yeux fait le tour de mon coeur" and "La terre est bleue comme une orange". Apollinaire is easy to get though sometimes very abstract, try "Á la sante" and "la petite auto". I was also thinking Henri Michaux but perhaps his nonsense inflected poetry isn't so ideal despite it's accessibility to natives (but if you want, try "Mes occupations" and "Un tout petit cheval"). Edited by AlexTG on 22 January 2015 at 12:31am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| redflag Senior Member Australia Joined 3843 days ago 123 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Danish, Indonesian, French | Message 7 of 11 22 January 2015 at 2:55am | IP Logged |
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This is my cue to link to one of my favourite things ever: Thierry Henry reading
Baudelaire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFWHAnVudZI 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4048 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 8 of 11 22 January 2015 at 8:41pm | IP Logged |
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Wow guys thank you so much!
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