what does Pablo Neruda propose to do in the openings line of the poem?
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Pablo Neruda uses extensively lyrical language and a free verse style in his poem Tonight I Can Write to present a speaker who expresses the pain he feels after a breakup with someone he truly loved. In the poem, he creates a deceptive and beautiful environment by using night imagery accordingly. Neruda 's overall focus in the poem is not about a breakup but how hard it is to be so distant from love. Through the speaker’s word choice and melancholy tone, Neruda portrays how love can last for a moment, but trying to forget a loved one is a long process. This poem opens with a simple line, “Tonight I can write the saddest lines” as to say tonight I can finally write the saddest lines (1). This conveys that the speaker previously could not do so. The theme of distance between the speaker and his love is introduced in this opening line. Neruda’s language here is simple and to the point. Distance is proposed again in the second and third lines as the speaker says, “Write, for example, ‘The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance’” (2). The blue stars, that the speaker notes to, represents his sadness by using a double meaning for the word blue. One meaning is just the color between green and violet, as of the sky or sea on a sunny day; this brings more happiness to people because of the nice weather.