Ode to My Socks

The speaker feels that his feet are "honored" by the "heavenly socks" that were knitted for him by a shepherd. They are as "soft / as rabbits," and they make him imagine that his feet have been...

In Neruda's poem, the speaker feels humbled and deeply moved by the socks Mara Mori gave him. Neruda's poetry often celebrates the voice of the common person, and he seems especially to value these...

Pablo Neruda's "Ode to My Socks" is full of figurative language, including similes and metaphors. Similes are figurative comparisons using "like" or "as." Metaphors are implicit figurative...

The simplicity of the poem is surprising considering that it is an ode, which traditionally is a solemn and elaborately structured poem. Choral odes of ancient Greece (so called because they were...

First of all the socks are handmade. So they will look somewhat irregular and won’t be perfect like if they were machine generated. The socks are also very soft, as they are described as “as soft...

In the first lines of the poem, the speaker—probably Pablo Neruda himself—says that Maru Mori gave him a pair of socks that she had "knitted herself" with her own two hands. Maru Mori was the wife...

In "Ode to My Socks," the speaker reminisces about a pair of socks that he says were "heavenly." He implies that they were "heavenly" in part because of how comfortable they were. Indeed, he uses a...

The theme of “Ode to my Socks” is that beauty is made more beautiful if it is also utilitarian. This theme is most evident in the last stanza, where the speaker explains the “moral” of his ode: So...

In the Pablo Neruda poem "Ode to My Socks," the speaker utilizes a number of analogies to emphasize the value he places on this particular item. The speaker is not saying he literally wants to put...

The more ancient odes were written about epic characters and events. The Romantics (Keats, Shelley) wrote odes about elements of nature (Nightingales, Seasons) which provided a means for them to...

An ode is a lyric poem in which the author praises and appreciates its subject. In “Ode to My Socks,” poet Neruda exalts a seemingly mundane item: a pair of socks. In fact, this use of such a lowly...

“Ode to My Socks” is about the wondrous beautiful socks, but it is also about receiving a gift. Pablo Neruda’s speaker begins the poem with the name of the person who made the socks and gave them...

Setting: Neruda gives only a few clues about the setting of this poem. In the beginning of the poem, the speaker tells us that a friend gave him a pair of socks that she had "knitted herself /with...

Towards the end of the poem the speaker says "...I resisted the sharp temptationto save them somewhere as schoolboyskeep fireflies,as learned men collectsacred texts,I resisted the mad impulse...

The poem celebrates the appreciation of everyday things; namely those which have practical functions. The narrator is so appreciative that he acknowledges who made them (a subtle intimation in...

Neruda’s "Ode to My Socks," which celebrates the extraordinary in an everyday item (a pair of handmade socks), is filled with nature motifs: rabbits, blackbirds, fireflies, fish, and deer, just to...

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