What is the tone of the poem poetry by pablo neruda is ecstatic
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Explanation:
1.
Personification-
What strikes the reader right in the beginning of the poem is how the poet
addresses poetry as a person.
‘Poetry arrived/ in search of me’
This personification wakes up the reader
to the physicality of one individual looking for another.
2.
Inversion- While most poets seek inspiration,
in this poem, poetry itself is seen reaching out to the poet. This is a
complete inversion of ideas.
3.
Diction- The poet has used simple as well
as a little complex diction. For instance,
‘I don't know, I don't know where/ it came from’, is simple language. However, ‘the branches of night’ and ‘palpitating plantations’
are more complex. This has possibly been done to show what the poet went
through- utter confusion with bits of understanding until he finally becomes a
successful poet.
4.
Alliteration- ‘palpitating plantations’.
5.
Word play, suggesting opposites- The poet
has put opposing ideas together to show the complex feelings.
‘pure/nonsense,/ pure
wisdom/ of someone who knows nothing’
and
‘arrows, fire and flowers’
Also, though poetry is ‘a great starry/ void’ and an ‘abyss’,
it holds a lot of promise. This is also a contradictory idea.
6.
Imagery- The poem has an abundance of
imagery. Each of the images contributes to the feel of the poem.
o Visual imagery- ‘riddled/ with arrows, fire and flowers’
And ‘my eyes were blind’
o Auditory imagery- ‘no they were not voices, they were not/ words,
nor silence’
o Tactile imagery- ‘it touched me’
o Calm imagery- ‘felt myself a pure part/ of the abyss’,
o Violent imagery- ‘violent fires’ and ‘the heavens/ unfastened and riddled/ with arrows,
fire and flowers’
7.
Tone- The poem starts calmly, in a matter-of-fact
sort of way. Gradually, the pace increases, as does the mystery.
First stanza – ‘I was summoned’
Second stanza- ‘and something started in
my soul’ and then ‘suddenly I saw/ the heavens/ unfastened’
Third stanza- ‘I wheeled with the stars,/
my heart broke loose on the wind’
Put together, Pablo Neruda, has used words effectively, to pour his
heart out to the readers.