Inside meaning Book

Believe it or not, James Joyce's collection of poems contains some of the easiest, simple works of poetry I have ever read! While this may be surprising (this is the guy that wrote an entire pun filled book destroying and combining words to create objectively the most challenging work of English literature by far...and he made it last over six hundred pages...and it doesn't have a clear story at all in the first place...), it's certainly not a bad thing. Joyce takes advantage of the simplicity on the surface of these poems by creating something really, really unbelievably beautiful. A majestic, musical collection that culminates to create a single, powerful portrait of Joyce's inner thoughts on love, and accepting all of its shortcomings and praising all of its virtues. This is not Joyce at his best or most intelligent by any means, but it is an accomplishment worthy of praise and should fascinate fans of Joyce who want to take a peek into his earlier years as a writer. Also, in true Joycean spirit, there are a few lines in there that have a naughty sense of sexuality, something that would be one of Joyce's many iconic traits overtime, especially in the dreaded and beloved Ulysses, which is perhaps the greatest novel of all time, it's certainly the best one I've read, and while Chamber Music is nowhere near such mastery, one can tell that a younger, slightly less scholarly and much less intelligent version of the same man worked on the latter work, and it serves as a good gateway entrance to the steadily mind bending career this man made for himself.