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Originally Posted by SynthethicalY

Which of these poets do you prefer best?

oh, you complete bastard, to want to make me choose between them!

i love both, and enormously, and for different reasons. neruda has a much greater range-- he wrote all kinds of poetry throughout his life. he also traslates better, a lot better, into other languages-- the beauty of garcia lorca's work is more closely dependent on the sounds and rhythms of the spanish language. neruda is, in a way, the 'bigger" poet, and a more popular poet because a good part of his work is very accessible. however, when it comes down to it, i prefer garcia lorca becaus he's dark, death-obsessed, wounded, and carries such a strange magic that you can't just define and say "oh, that...". however a lot of this will be lost in translation because, as i said, the poetry often happens in the music and not in the meaning of the words, in his work.