20 love poems and a song of despair
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- '20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair' - Pablo Neruda
- 'Body of a Woman'
- Largely based around the metaphor comparing the Earth and it's nature to the physical body
- Presents the stereotype that women are sexually submissive to men
- Compares the conquest of land to the conquest of a woman
- Sense of ease
- Compares the conquest of land to the conquest of a woman
- 'My thirst, my boundless desire'
- Dependent on her and her body, hints that he may be dependent on love or female validation
- Sense of longing and need
- Rich and evocative language
- Captures the complexity of the woman's physical form
- Captures the intense physical attraction that can exist between two people
- Dependent on her and her body, hints that he may be dependent on love or female validation
- 'Almost Out Of The Sky'
- Sense of desperation
- Can feel his partner slipping away from him
- 'I can say nothing! You were made of everything'
- Juxtaposition of everything and nothing
- Describes how quickly the love was taken away from him; now feels lost and isolated without her
- Juxtaposition of everything and nothing
- Sense of desperation
- 'The Light Wraps You'
- Explores how love can be a light!
- Can illuminate light
- Can also bring comfort and warmth
- Also explores how love can be a burning blame
- Bright & fierce- very intense
- 'Oh magnificent and fecund and magnetic slave'
- Love fills us with safety and security
- Illustrates the feeling of being held by someone you love
- Like a 'magnet', two poles that are attracted to each other; needs to be little force to put them together and lots of force to pull them apart
- Explores how love can be a light!
- 'Your Breast Is Enough'
- Imagery used to describe the increasing distance between him and his lover
- This love is becoming one-sided; all he wants is her, but she can't return that desire
- 'You have sang in the wind like the pines and like the masts'
- No matter how much he praises her and puts her on a pedestal, it's not enough for her to stay
- Unsure what else he can do for her
- No matter how much he praises her and puts her on a pedestal, it's not enough for her to stay
- Imagery used to describe the increasing distance between him and his lover
- 'Ah Vastness of Pines'
- 'Twilight falling in your eyes'
- Symbolizes the end of day
- They are both close to the edge; death
- Twilight years signify retirement
- Symbolizes the end of day
- Represents the time they have left in this world
- Twilight years signify retirement
- In a state of wonder
- He is flexible just so that his 'love' can be happy
- He is scared and worried for a fate that doesn't align with her; he is completely consumer by her
- He is flexible just so that his 'love' can be happy
- 'Twilight falling in your eyes'
- 'Drunk With Pines'
- Uses summer and roses to show that their passion will fade into a memory
- Their passion is strong but know that it won't last forever, so they take it as it comes and makes the most of the time and opportunities they have together
- Uses nature element of pines to emphasizes how the lover makes him feel
- Wishes their love would last all year round, like pine trees
- 'Drunk with pines'
- Being drunk is a temporary state
- Like how their love is a temporary state; he knows this but he deep down wishes it could last for as long as they're both alive
- Portrays his adoration for her
- Like how their love is a temporary state; he knows this but he deep down wishes it could last for as long as they're both alive
- Being drunk is a temporary state
- Uses summer and roses to show that their passion will fade into a memory
- 'Tonight I Can Write'
- Memories of a lost love and recalls a broken love
- Juxtaposition between the passion he has for her and the loneliness he experiences in the present
- 'The saddest poem of all'
- In a state of mind that allows him to write moving lines
- Has a love affair on his mind but also juggles his newfound lonliness
- Memories of a lost love and recalls a broken love
- 'I Have Gone Marking'
- Starts off romantically, with a basis of sensuality and imagery of bodies and fire
- Sense of doubt is introduced in the second stanza
- 'Sad and gentle doll'
- Creates a wedge between this couple
- Constant shifts in tone of imagery that is light and heavy
- Starts off romantically, with a basis of sensuality and imagery of bodies and fire
- 'The Morning Is Full'
- Neruda observe the world around him
- Notices lots of unfinished works of art
- 'Assailed in the door of the summer's wand'
- Expresses the heartbreak of the absence of a particular season
- Suggesting there's an absence of love in Neruda's life?
- Present sense of emotions for seasonal change
- Feeling depressed when he should feel at ease
- Expresses the heartbreak of the absence of a particular season
- Neruda observe the world around him
- 'We Have Lost Even'
- Portrays loss, specifically the loss of love
- In both present and past tense- the past tense conveying a happier time and the present a more saddening
- Suggesting that there is an absence of joy and glory at the current time of writing
- In both present and past tense- the past tense conveying a happier time and the present a more saddening
- 'We have lost even this twilight'
- Sets the poem off in a dark and mysterious tone
- Brings the audience down into a mournful experience
- Portrays loss, specifically the loss of love
- 'Girl Lithe and Tawny'
- 'a black yearning sun'
- Turns a beautiful object of nature and turns it into something dark and bruised
- The love has not been reciprocated- she has taken all the light in his life and left him with nothing but sadness and gloom
- Turns a beautiful object of nature and turns it into something dark and bruised
- Uses indirect imagery, that still connotes to the reader that he has a lot of passion for this woman and suffers a great deal of heart ache
- 'a black yearning sun'
- 'I Like For You To Be Still'
- Addresses his lover's brightness and stillness
- Takes the pleasure in knowing she's there; comforting and reassuring for him
- Likes to imagine her; romanticise the idea of her
- Likes to hear her speak; allowing him to understand that she is alive and still plays a significant role in his life
- 'Your silence that is as bright as a lamp'
- Presents the lover as elegant
- Carries themselves well
- Do not need to do much to be viewed as extraordinary
- Presents the lover as elegant
- 'I Remember You As You Were'
- Explores the theme of memory and the power of the past
- Sense of reminisce and nostalgia
- Memories that we hold onto sustain us and keep us in contact and connection to those we love and care most deeply about
- 'You were the grey beret and the still heart'
- Looking back on a loved one from the past; before time and circumstance changed the situation
- Evoking feelings of adoration
- Looking back on a loved one from the past; before time and circumstance changed the situation
- Explores the theme of memory and the power of the past
- 'White Bee'
- Tone starts off sincere, as he is speaking about his love for this anonymous woman
- However, it becomes hopeless, like he is lost without her
- Shift in tone!
- However, it becomes hopeless, like he is lost without her
- Main point is that love is eternal; even if THE love is gone, the love for them still lingers
- 'White Bee' (the title)
- White represents purity and innocence
- Bees can sting, representing that his love has left, but they also pollinate, meaning there is some form of love in him
- Tone starts off sincere, as he is speaking about his love for this anonymous woman
- 'Thinking, Tangling Shadows'
- 'The sad rage, the shout, the solitude of the sea'
- The waves are described as raging and soliduteness
- Oxymoronic
- These different meanings (the ocean) all symbolise love, although there are many conflicting emotions, like frustration and loneliness
- The waves are described as raging and soliduteness
- 'The sad rage, the shout, the solitude of the sea'
- 'Here I Love You'
- Fear of losing his 'love'
- Explores the theme of heartbreak
- He sends her messages through nature and over the sea, so that she is aware that she is deep in his thoughts
- He is slowly taking the hint that she is moving on with her life, without him
- 'The snow unfurls in dancing figures'
- Personifcation of snow
- A sense of magic; something incredible is happening
- Trying to send her a message- uses the beauty of nature to act as a means of transportation to send the message along to her
- Although they are physically apart, they can still observe nature together
- Trying to send her a message- uses the beauty of nature to act as a means of transportation to send the message along to her
- A sense of magic; something incredible is happening
- Personifcation of snow
- Fear of losing his 'love'
- 'So That You Will Hear Me'
- A general reminder that we can find solace in the power of human connection, even in great moments of despair
- 'Lament of old mouths, blood of old supplications'
- Calls out to his lover to comfort and validate his emotions
- Full of deep sorrow
- Deep sense of isolation and longing; wanting to feel wanted
- Wants to feel heard, wants someone to relate to his pain; a desire for connection
- Full of deep sorrow
- Calls out to his lover to comfort and validate his emotions
- 'Leaning Into The Afternoons'
- Explores the theme of passage of time
- Through the imagery of nature; beauty and fragility of the natural world
- 'I cast my sad nets towards your oceanic eyes'
- Observes the world around him and reflects on the transience of life
- Evokes a sense of wonder and awe
- In the Spanish, each line ends in a masculine word, suggesting that Neruda is asserting his dominance
- Therefore, perhaps this woman is trapped in not only the poet's mind, but in his heart?
- Observes the world around him and reflects on the transience of life
- Explores the theme of passage of time
- 'Every Day You Play'
- Portrays he overwhelming love for the lover and how his life have improves since knowing her- she influences him to face the hardships of life
- 'I want to do with you what spring does to the cherry trees'
- Seeks to nurture his lover until any trace of that strange shadow is gone from their eyes
- By the time he is done with her, theoretically, they will both be blooming like a beautiful cherry tree
- Seeks to nurture his lover until any trace of that strange shadow is gone from their eyes
- 'In My Sky At Twilight'
- Describes his love from a distance
- Knows she's there in his sight, but very far away
- 'You are mine'
- Possessive!
- Claims her but not in a position to
- Compares her to the whole sky; a large area, but this woman is a singular person
- Wants such a niche thing, but cannot have her
- Possessive!
- Describes his love from a distance
- 'A Song of Despair'
- 'In you everything sank!'
- Exclamatory sentence that also refrains, emphasising the significance that when she left, his life kept getting worse and that he could do nothing about it since he could only blame himself for how invested he became
- The first page represents some form of passive aggression, whilst the second page illustrates a warm reflection of the whole experience, collecting the poems together and rounding it off well
- The poems as a collective
- Neruda celebrates light and love, while incorporating his own Chilean culture
- He also explores how love, but specifically unrequited love fluctuates
- He portrays that love is inconsistent; it will never be perfect, regardless of having to be in a fully committed relationship, and therefore presenting an outlook of modern love well
- The poems as a collective
- 'In you everything sank!'
- 'Body of a Woman'
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