Pablo Neruda's Memory Analysis

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Pablo Neruda in the article Memories, he talks about his childhood memories and poetry, he describes some of the memories which seems to be vivid, however he was confused about some of his memories. In the Search of our Mother’s Gardens, Alice Walker describes the life of black women, who was sexual abused and lost. These women had talent but they did not leave their legacy behind to be recognized. Patricia Hampl in her article A romantic Education she explore her family history and seek to understand memories. Our memories are selective, sometimes we change them to make things better in order to void accept certain reality. Because the memories are selective it becomes less detailed as time pass, thus become less vivid. Due to uncertainty, …show more content…

No, however we should ask questions about the things we think that we remember; the things that we believe that we are certain about Hall talks about his memories in New England which seems to be vivid experience, the stories are very detailed. Most of the stories he talks about seems to be realistic but some might not even be his own stories. Hall states that “I was taught to recognize the restaurant by the side of the road in western Massachusetts where my parents had stopped to heat my bottle when I was a few month old” it is almost impossible for a person remember his memories when he is few months old however we learn from our siblings and parents thing about us when we were little and we trust those people information, it leads us to acquire a new unreliable …show more content…

Hampl talks about the old family picture where they were standing, the picture were not fascinated because they were young but because they will never stand the same way as when they were children. Hampl says that they looked fascinated because these were historical, she shows that in memory we live again. Hampl states that “The imprecision of memory causes us to create, to extend remembrance into narrative”, the unreability of memories cause us to create, and the lack of details leads our memories to become

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