How does Pablo Neruda’s Maturity develop from ‘Body of a Woman’ to ‘Sonnet 89’?

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In Pablo Neruda’s love poems, ‘Body of a Woman’ and ‘Sonnet 89’ the theme is about a woman who Neruda loved. This essay will analyse how Neruda uses imagery and metaphor, amongst others, to reflect on how much Neruda has matured over time.
When Neruda wrote ‘Body of a Woman’, he was only nineteen years old. It is part of a collection of poems which was called ‘Twenty poems of love and a song of despair’. These poems are presentations of Neruda’s personal experience as a lover. The poems were inspired by his relationships with two women in his student years. The collection was rejected by Chile’s leading publisher due to its sexual nature. In contrast, ‘Sonnet 89’ was written when he was forty-six years old. It is part of another collection of poems called ‘100 love sonnets’. This collection is a display of his affection towards his wife, Mathilde Urrutia.
The title itself ‘Body of a Woman’, is an example of imagery. Neruda could be talking about a description of a woman’s body in the literal sense or about Chile, the country that he showed his loyalty and his faithfulness to.
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