Love seems to be complicated. There are different parts of a person that you undoubtedly love. Those are the pieces of memories that tend to stick around if the person doesn't. In Pablo Neruda's poem "Tonight I Can Write", he goes moment by moment of the flashbacks he had with his loved one. Although his heart is broken, he's trying his best to move on from the anonymous women who left him. With the author's specific use of personification, repetition, imagery, irony and symbolism, the poem shows the true pain of a heart ache.
In Neruda's poem, the speaker starts with "the night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance." He is using personification giving the night and stars human characteristics. The speaker is cold without her in arms, hence the shivering stars. He is reminiscing under the dark sky because that is what they used to do as a couple. The storyteller implies that they did have better nights with the line "through nights like this one I held her in my arms." Neruda continues using personification giving the night the ability to sing. "The night wind revolves in the sky and sings." The "shivering stars" and "the same night whitening the trees" shows that it is winter. Neruda compares his relationship to nature multiple times throughout the poem to show how it reminds him of his nameless women.
The loneliness is heard when the author repeats the line "tonight I can write the saddest lines." This contributes to the tone of the poem because of the depressed reaction he makes the readers feel. The repetition shows the true devastation of his words. The "saddest lines" seems to have a strong impact because it seems he has never been as sad as he is now. Neruda also repeats the lines "through night...
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...'s certain, but maybe I love her. / Love is so short, forgetting is so long." These two stanza's show Neruda's emotions are inevitable. He loved her and she left him. Now what does he do? The line "love is so short, forgetting is so long" is short, yet so powerful. The authors memories of his loved one will always be with him, and that's what makes forgetting so hard. He ends with "though this be the last pain she makes me suffer / and these the last verses that I write for her" to illustrate he is going to try to move on.
Pablo Neruda's poem "Tonight I Can Write" has a incredible impact on the heart. After reading this poem, one could truly feel the pain he is trying to overcome. This poem uses different key elements to help the reader feel the emotions of words. Being able to connect words with feelings is an amazing skill that Neruda has beyond doubt mastered.
In the beginning of the poem, the speaker’s tone is solemn and his/ her voice, filled with sadness, “My loneliness arrives ghostlike and pretentious, it seeks my soul, it is ravenous and hurting.” The speaker's choice of the words “ghost-like” convey that his loneliness arrives effortlessly, implying he is lonely a lot of the time. His choice of the word ravenous and hurting suggests that loneliness is causing the speaker pain. Through Salina’s diction, he is able to create a solemn and gloomy tone in the first 12 lines. In line 13, the speaker’s tone beings to change, “I want to find a solution, so I write letters, poems, and sometimes.” The speaker's tone has shifted from pessimistic to optimistic, revealings that the speaker’s attitude has changed to be more persistent and determined. It is this determination and persistence that allows the speaker to fill his void of loneliness. By Salinas shifting the speaker’s tone and attitude he is able to further develop the theme by revealing that by changing his attitude, the speaker was
The first text entitled, “Remembrance” by Emily Bronte mainly deals with the loss of love. When reading the poem she states that it has been, “fifteen wild Decembers” since her lover has died. (Bronte, Remembrance, page 1075, line 9) Even though it has been basically fifteen years since her lover has died she is just beginning to feel her love for him slip away. It is surprising that for these fifteen years she has remained in love with a man who is dead. However she states, “Sweet Love of youth, forgive if I forget thee,” (Bronte, Remembrance, page 1075, line 13) When this line is stated it can be said that her love for her lover began at a young age, however after fifteen years of him being dead, her memories of him, her love for him, has slipped away or is beginning to. This poem could also deal with remembrance, since those fifte...
Love plays an important role in most physical and emotional relationships. Love is a word that can prove difficult to define or even compare to other emotions. This is due to the diversity of meaning and the complexity of the emotion itself. Everyone has been in love at least once before and has gotten a taste of all the good and bad things that come with it. Christina Rossetti’s “Song” presents some of the good parts of love while Philip Larkin’s “Talking in Bed” shows us some of the bad parts of love. Larkin’s poem presents a failing relationship where communication has failed between a couple and things are getting more and more difficult. Rossetti’s poem presents a wholly different view on love; it is told from the viewpoint of someone talking to his or her lover about what said lover should do after the speaker dies. The love between them seems better, more powerful and good. The two poems also present wholly different attitudes towards “The End,” whether that is the end of life or the end of the relationship. Larkin presents the end as something dark and sad, difficult to cope with. Rossetti, on the other hand, talks about the end as just another beginning, a chance to start over in a new world. Finally, the two poems represent remembrance in different ways. Larkin’s presents memory as something extremely important while Rossetti implies that it does not matter whether we remember or not.
When, it shows that the narrator is “angry” because he has been “bamboozled”. This shows how he still has not forgotten about his past relationship. Also, how he is upset “I get tearful when I’ve downed a drink or two”. This implies that he is stressed and thinks the only thing to help him is to drink alcohol to make him feel better and not think about the past. He also describes himself as “marooned”; this heightens that he thinks that he is alone even though that he is with someone. Furthermore, when the narrator talks about how he is on a “rebound”. This shows how he is still thinking about his past relationship and is not over it. Additionally, he repeats three times “Don’t talk to me of love”, this implies that he is fed up of people talking about love because he didn’t end well for him. The poem has four stanzas of five or six lines, with a longer stanza of nine lines in the centre, acting as a chorus in which the mood of the poem changes. The repeated line “I’m in Paris with you”, this reflects the speakers insistent concentration on the present. There is a colloquial language, suggesting this is an informal poem. For example “had an earful” and “say sod off to sodding Notre Dame”.
The first stanza describes the depth of despair that the speaker is feeling, without further explanation on its causes. The short length of the lines add a sense of incompleteness and hesitance the speaker feels towards his/ her emotions. This is successful in sparking the interest of the readers, as it makes the readers wonder about the events that lead to these emotions. The second and third stanza describe the agony the speaker is in, and the long lines work to add a sense of longing and the outpouring emotion the speaker is struggling with. The last stanza, again structured with short lines, finally reveals the speaker 's innermost desire to "make love" to the person the speaker is in love
Everyone has been hurt by loves sweet embrace. The memories that are left behind can haunt us everyday. The music, dreams, smells, a name, or a rose can strike up memories of ones love lost. But when love leaves you alone, the memories and the ghosts of love are never gone. There is always something to trigger thoughs memories bad or good. Something that needs to be known about the poem is that it was written impromptu in a visiting card.
This line was very unexpected and this line makes the poem what it is. The poem transition from a love poem to a darker more painful story. The tone of the poem also shifts to a more eerie tone. Another thing about the third stanza is that at this moment in the poem, I can connect the poem to the Greek mythological story of Persephone and Hades. The allusion sets up the rest of the poem and gives the poem a lot more meaning.
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The reason Angelou included these different examples was to emphasize that loneliness is everywhere and can happen to anyone. Maya Angelou did a fantastic job of emphasizing her message and making it clear for the reader to understand. Through repetition, figurative language, and providing examples of how different people are lonely, Angelou signified how important it is for a person to find someone that cares about them. Just packed into thirty-seven short lines, Angelou conveyed a message that can impact any reader that takes the time to read this meaningful poem.
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After being hurt the person should bounce bad slowly or quickly, coming back is the good part. The author said," Then you can write your name / Claiming me... Until the sun shines," (14-20). These quotes are from the last stanza in the poem. I feel that this shows the coming back part of the persevering and finding real love. The last part of the quote is the best part of the poem, it makes the poem complete and it is amazing.
The tone of this poem is heavyhearted though it changes at the end a little bit. The words like- absent, far away, melancholy, silence, and died set the depressing tone of this poem. Those words represent the feelings of a potentially vulnerable, heartbroken person (in this case the person is Neruda) who is afraid of losing his loved one. Neruda is afraid and sad that his loved one might disappear from his life someday, but he does not really know why. He is trying out to understand what might be the reason, but he seems to get no response from the other side because she is silent. For instance Neruda writes, “it is as thought you were absent / and you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you” (1-2). He also writes, “And let me talk to your silence”(12). This certainly show the point that he is calling her, trying to reach her out but no response is coming from the other end. He becomes so desperate that, he is even ready to talk to her silence.
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