Analysis Of If You Forget Me

To begin with, E.E. Cummings and Pablo Neruda in a similar way have their speakers’ feelings expressed by addressing the women they love. In this way the theme of the poems is presented properly and the speaker’s feelings are emphasized. For instance, the phrases “you of my heart” (10) in Cummings’s poem and “Bring them all/ to where I am waiting for you;” (11-12) in Neruda’s poem indicate that the speakers address their lovers in order to express their feelings in a more lively way. Another similarity in the way the two speakers cope with the possibility of a future change is the fact that they both make thoughts about the women they love related to other men either it is in the past or in the future. To illustrate, Cummings makes a hypothesis using the word ‘if’ to show the possibility of his lover’s unfaithfulness in the future and thinks about it continuously. The repetition of the word ‘if’ and also the phrase “if this should be, i say if this should be-” (9) show the intense thoughts the speaker makes referred to the probability of mistrust by his lover. In the same manner, Neruda’s speaker talks about his woman’s past, and although he says that “[He] is not jealous/of what came before [him]”(1-2) and concludes saying that “[they] shall always be

Shakespeare and Neruda’s poem are obviously known to be sonnets, however they don’t both share the same structure; Shakespeare’s is of course a Shakespearean sonnet containing fourteen lines and has a particular rhyme scheme (ababcdcdefefgg), but Neruda’s sonnet doesn’t follow Shakespeare’s or the traditional Italian sonnet. Rather, Neruda’s sonnet does indeed contain fourteen lines, but most follows the free verse sonnet structure, since there is no rhyme scheme. Yet, likewise, both sonnets do present a problem in the first verses and then develop towards a solution. In the following, on Neruda’s lines, “My ugly…My beauty…Ugly:…Beauty:..” the speaker starts acknowledging his beloved that he is proud she is his for him to say “my”, but as the

Similarly, the phrase ‘the next moment, you are no longer there’ is perhaps suggesting that he was shocked at seeing her go so suddenly. However, the fact that when she next reappears she is ‘perfectly framed shows us that the joy of seeing her after thinking she has gone for good is a surprise to him. ‘Fragrant survivors of last night’s frost’ shows us that the flowers are strong, which is a suggestion that their love is strong. In the fourth verse the phrase ‘my heart misses a beat at love for you’ shows us that the love was so intense that time seemed to stop too. ‘Knowing a time will come when you are no longer there’ shows us that he is not looking forward to that time and that he knows it is inevitable. ‘Meanwhile let us make sure we clasp each shared moment’ shows us that he wants to make sure they use their time together wisely, and ‘in cupped hands, like water we dare not spill’ shows us they know that their time together is precious.

Neruda express his thanks for thanks in many ways, and one way was figurative language. The speaker used a lot of powerful figurative language to get his point across. In my opinion, the strongest use of figurative language is one that hits you right in the first stanza. It states, “Thanks to thanks, / word / that melts / iron and snow.” This personification means that saying “thanks” can break through the toughest and harshest of situations (the iron) and the smallest, softest of situations (the snow). Another use of figurative language can be found in lines 9-14, where it states, “Thanks / makes the rounds / from one pair of lips to another, / soft as a bright / feather / and sweet as a petal of sugar.” First off, personification is used when the speaker says “makes the rounds from one pair

Authors often create texts that share common themes to teach readers importance of certain aspects and hardships of life. Theme may be expressed through an author’s use of rhetorical devices and many other contributing factors such as figurative language and repetition. The essay, “Once More to the Lake” written by E.B. White and the poem “Forgetfulness” written by Billy Collins, both contain a theme of identity loss. In “Once More to the Lake” E.B White connects to a lake at young age and when returning with his son years later is unable to identify himself. In similar theme “Forgetfulness” describes different factors of human life and everyday things being forgotten and lost. Both White and Collins use repetition and metaphors to further push the theme of identity loss throughout the texts.

Memory is something all humans struggle with. A person’s memory is everything. It shapes the entirety of a person’s being. The fear of losing your memory is a uniquely human phenomenon, and to some degree I believe it must haunt every person. In these two poems, both titled “Forgetfulness”, two poets explore the idea of losing yourself and being human. Although their voices are very different, and the techniques which they employ to get their message across, the topic of the poems is the same. The truth is that forgetfulness is a many-headed beast, and it’s entirely valid that two different viewpoints could explore different aspects of it. Hart Crane’s poem focuses on the image of forgetfulness, the effect it has on humanity as a whole, and

Romantic relationships,contains emotions that both partner share for each other,when conflict begins to arise animosity causes  the separation within  the relationship from those two people.This may or may not leave mutual feeling for each other.However,within the poem “IF You Forget Me”by Pablo Neruda emanates the message,regardless of what may had happened between you and someone else in a intimate relationship the bond between them will either last forever or disappear between each other.But, no matter what the feeling of “If You Forget Me” is mutual by the author uses of  metaphor,express to attempt to tell his lover that he will forget her if she forgets him,in the same instant that it might happen.As Equally important

The book “The Captain’s Verses” by Pablo Neruda, there are many love poems. Poems that express different ways of loving someone. I decided to pick Neruda's body of work because of how smooth and elegant his poems sound. They express so much passion towards a person and also send a message. When reading his poems I would be able to understand the emotion the poem carried. This is the first thing that caught my attention from his poems. The emotions each and every one of them carried.

Methods: The poet in the very first line uses he two words “Your” and “my” to create clear separation or division.

Due to his relationship with ego, the Egoist at first ignores actuality. Only upon harmonizing with nature, and subsequently renouncing the personal ego, can he enjoy life. Neruda introduces The Egoist’s narrator with the passionate lamentation, “O heart lost / inside me, in this man’s essence, / what bountiful change inhabits you!” (22-24). Neruda introducing a persona and first-person perspective establishes a shift for the poem; it now contemplates the self’s effects on a personal rather than universal level. Although one might expect losing their separateness to traumatize, Neruda once again subverts expectations by expressing the loss’ beauty as bountiful change. Moreover, Neruda’s enjambment separates this passage into three distinct sections: the cause, the ego’s death, and its liberating effects. Before losing his self, the Egoist embodied “the culprit / who has fled or turned himself in” (25-26). The Egoist’s past highlights the illusory self’s ultimate folly; the inevitable self-absorption accompanying it. Some, like the Egoist, spend their entire lives trying to inflate their egos via fruitless activities like crime, believing they will

Neruda then states, "I do not dare, / I do not dare to write it, / if you die" (YEAR, 4-6). Neruda repeats the "do not dare" to

As Gabriel reflects on Gretta’s sorrow for this lost young man, he comes to accept that he has never experienced that depth of feeling and love for another person—not even for the wife that he had so desired just a short time before. He no longer looks at her through “admiring and happy eyes;” he now sees only her age and bitterly acknowledges that “her face is no longer the face for which [the boy] braved death” (2199). The reality of Gretta’s past has revealed the shallowness of his feelings and the hollowness in his life, and Gabriel’s picture of Gretta is forever changed.

Love makes people become selfish, but it is also makes the world greater. In this poem, the world that the speaker lives and loves is not limited in “my North, my South, my East and West / my working week and my Sunday rest” (9-10), it spreads to “My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song (11). The poem’s imagery dominates most of the third stanza giving readers an image of a peaceful world in which everything is in order. However, the last sentence of the stanza is the decisive element. This element not only destroys the inner world of the speaker, but it also sends out the message that love or life is mortal.

Consequently, this picturesque poetic device helped communicate the theme of lost love by helping the reader associate the personas’ thoughts and beliefs with their own.

Neruda begins his sonnet in a most unusual manner. He states in the first few lines ways in which he does not love his companion. He does not love her as if she were “the salt-rose, topaz, or arrow of