Write a poem which is written by Pablo Neruda.
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Answer:
Pablo Neruda is one of the most influential and widely read 20th-century poets of the Americas. “No writer of world renown is perhaps so little known to North Americans as Chilean poet Pablo Neruda,” observed New York Times Book Review critic Selden Rodman. Numerous critics have praised Neruda as the greatest poet writing in the Spanish language during his lifetime. John Leonard in the New York Times declared that Neruda “was, I think, one of the great ones, a Whitman of the South.” Among contemporary readers in the United States, he is largely remembered for his odes and love poems.
Explanation:
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
— Pablo Neruda
1. "Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines"
Appeared in: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada
Year Published: 1924
My Analysis of the Poem
In this poem, the speaker's feelings of loneliness lead to immense sadness. The opening line instantly establishes the mood of this poem. It establishes the incredible sense of loss the speaker feels early in the poem. This line repeats two more times in poem, giving it the feel of a terrible epiphany. In this poem, the sorrow does not diminish, but intensifies as you read.
The recurring images of night can present internal darkness, sadness, and lost romance. At night we think about something that tortures us, as if tossing and turning in bed, unable to be comfortable, unable to sleep. In short, this is a breakup poem, so perhaps night represents the emptiness he feels after she left.
The loneliness of night is immense without her. He couldn’t keep her. She has gone, but he still can’t accept it. It is hard to forget someone you love. You feel like your lover is still with you. You remember everything you passed through together. The poet wants to forget her, and he is trying to convince himself he doesn’t love her anymore, but he clearly does.
The theme of Pablo Neruda's poem “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines” is the finality of lost love.
------ Pablo Neruda
I left her I the doorway waiting
and I went away, away,
She didn't know I would not
come back.
A dog passed, a nun passed
a week and a year passed.
The rains washed out my
footprints
and the grass grew in the street,
and one after another,like stone,
like gradual stones,the years
came down on her head.
Then the war came
like a volcano of blood.
Children and houses died.
And that woman didn't die.
The whole plain caught fire.
The gentle yellow gods
who for a thousand years
had gone on meditating
were cast from the temple in pieces.
They couldn't go on dreaming.
The sweet homes,the veranda
where I slept in a hammock
the rosy plants, the leaves
in the shape of huge hands,
the chimneys,the marimbas
all were crushed and burned.
And where the city had been
only cinders were left,
twisted iron, grotesque
heads of dead statues
and a black stain of blood.
And the woman waiting.