Love In Pablo Neruda

More than seven thousand languages are spoken on Earth but many of them disappeared in the ancient time nonetheless others developed and survived. Every person speaks in their language and every people get information by speaking with someone or reading it in the book. People said how they felt or saw it. Much of what people know about love is encoded by oral language or poems. That’s why people see “love” in the different ways. Some people think that love is something bad, that it is the illness and it will “hurt you but others may think that love is one of the most beautiful thing in the world. “It makes you happy and you feel freedom.” People may love their family, friends and other people. So, my research question is how William Shakespeare and Pablo Neruda represented “love” in their poems, Sonnet XVII and Sonnet 147? Both of them lived in different time, hence they will have different ideas about love feeling.

Pablo Neruda is a Spanish poet who lived in the 19th century. I chose his poem, One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII.

“I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,

Or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:

I love you as one loves certain obscure things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”

In that line, we can understand how Neruda represented his “love”. The author doesn’t say to readers with whom the speaker is talking to his wife, or girlfriend, or boyfriend, or illicit lover.

But I think, he may write this poem to his wife. The ways that he uses to describe his feelings will provide reader’s attention. He or she will be interested in what comes later. The author opens love sonnet with the speaker talking to his paramour, another word for a lover.

“My love is as a fever, longing still

For that w...

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...erent ways. For Pablo Neruda love should be from the heart. Every stanza of the poem represents an individual scene of a relationship where love emotions take all place in the heart. The theme is basically telling people what true and real love is. But for William Shakespeare love is the disease that can change to the death. It can’t be cured, and he has gone frantically crazy and grown increasingly restless. When the hero fell in love his thoughts and speech are like a madman’s. At the beginning he thought that he can be cured but the doctor left the hero because he didn’t follow the instructions. For the Shakespearean hero, “dark lady” was a beautiful and radiant but she was actually “as black as hell and as dark as night”. Both of the poets used literary devices to describe their feelings, their emotions, and also, they used words which made the mood of the poems.