Dec 16, 2009
Although Pablo Neruda calls the fourteen-line poems in the volume One Hundred Love Sonnets sonnets, he uses the traditional sonnet form in widely different ways—from a virtual free-verse order within the framework of a sonnet (as in “Sonnet XXVII”) to the more conventionally strict forms; a sonnet is traditionally a lyric poem of fourteen lines, highly arbitrary in form, and adhering to one or another of several set rhyme conventions.
In the first stanza of “Sonnet XXVII,” the speaker of the poem addresses his beloved. Opening the stanza with...
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