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Pablo Neruda Poem

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Tonight I can write by Pablo Neruda. Pablo Neruda (Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto) was born on July 12, 1904,. He was born in the agricultural region of parral, Chile. Neruda was known as a poetic when he was 10 years old. He won the noble prize for literature in 1971. The poem Tonight I can write is a poem that describes the sadness of Neruda towards his ex-girlfriend. Although, in this poem the poetic shows many techniques that helped the people to understand the poem and the poetic feelings. So, what are the techniques and the themes that the poetic used and how it impacts the poem? The themes of Pablo Neruda’s poem is the love and passion, Neruda describes and expresses his love and Passion towards his love for a woman. He remembers her great eyes, the bright body and he remembers the kisses under the endless sky. Neruda still loves her though he said twice that he no longer loves her. “Love is so short, forgetting is so long” the speaker is trying to say that love can last for a moment or long …show more content…

Pablo Neruda didn’t use a lot of the literary devices, he used very strong imagery and some personification with a bit of repetition. One of the examples of imagery when he said “the night is shattered” he describes the night as a glass broken into many pieces and the sky was clear as a piece of glass. Another example of imagery in the same stanza “the blue stars shiver in the distance” Pablo Neruda creates imagery in the reader’s mind by describing the blue sky that they are far away. The other literary devices that Neruda used is personification when he said in line 4 “The night wind revolves in the sky and sings” the wind can’t sing unlike human, Neruda personifies that it is a way to add some feeling and mode in the poem. The last literary device Neruda used is repetition and I think that repetition was the common device in this poem. He used repetition three times in this

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