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Pablo Neruda
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion, so rhetorical devices are devices that persuade an audience. Neruda is trying to persuade his audience that letting the Standard Oil Company into a South American...
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Pablo Neruda
In "Ars Poetica" by Pablo Neruda, Neruda compares the process of writing a poem to the process by which a carpenter fashions wood, a baker bakes bread, and a blacksmith forges metal. He starts off...
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Pablo Neruda
In terms of tone, "If You Forget Me" is distinctly phasic. It can be split into three parts. Initially, it speaks of love in classical romantic metaphors: fire, moon, autumn, isles, and sailing...
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Pablo Neruda
There is a distinct difference between the definition of mood and tone in a piece of literature. Neruda's poetry is mesmerizing in the way he conveys his ardor and love for his lover; the mood,...
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Pablo Neruda
[eNotes editors are only permitted to answer one question per posting. Additional questions must be posted separately.] In Pablo Neruda's poem, "Every Day You Play," metaphorical language is used...
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Pablo Neruda
In Pablo Neruda's early poetry, he used stanzas, rhyme and syntax, however, as he got older, for instance publishing a book in 1933, his poetic technique changed drastically. In [Residence on...
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Pablo Neruda
In Pablo Neruda's "Sweetness, Always," and Galway Kinnell's "Blackberry Eating," the poems use images of food and eating, compared to poetry. Kinnell describes ravaging blackberry stalks and taking...
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Pablo Neruda
[enotes editors are only permitted to answer one question per posting. Additional questions need to be posted separately.] There are a number of metaphors in Pablo Neruda's love poem, entitled,...
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Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda's "If You Forget Me" is the quintessential love poem. It is beautiful. The author's use of imagery is a powerful tool in driving home his dedication to the woman he loves. There are...
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Pablo Neruda
"The Saddest Poem" by Pablo Neruda is about lost love. The speaker laments over the loss of a lover, not who has died, but who has moved on from him. His strong connection of the poem to the stars...
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Pablo Neruda
The last line of the poem "Ode to the Beautiful Nude" is an example of a metaphor. A metaphor is a figure of speech used to implicitly compare two things that are unrelated as if they had something...
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Pablo Neruda
This is a poem in praise of the female form and as the speaker in this poem gazes upon the nude who the poem is dedicated to, the tone of wonder, awe and amazement is clear as he contemplates what...
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Pablo Neruda
The late Chilean journalist, author, and poet Pablo Neruda left behind a rather unusual body of work that included a long list of “odes” to myriad and seemingly mundane items and activities such as...
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Pablo Neruda
The poet has dug deep within his self. His introspection has unraveled some unexpected facts about himself. He has discovered that he is not simply a single being! In fact, there are many persons...
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Pablo Neruda
This is a great question, which has as much to do with pragmatics and semantics as with the formation of the words and the effectiveness with which they command the attention of the reader. The...
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Pablo Neruda
An ode is a classical form that traditionally deals with a grand or important topic. Pablo Neruda's poem "Ode to Tomatoes", like the paradoxical encomium, applies this genre to a homely subject, a...
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Pablo Neruda
In Pablo Neruda's love poem, "If You Forget Me," the author uses beautiful metaphors to attempt to tell his lover that he will forget her if she forgets him, at the same instant this might happen....
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Pablo Neruda
Imagery employed by a poet brings to the reader a sensory experience. Pablo Neruda’s “Every Day You Play” depends on his word images to explain the relationship that he describes. Neruda was known...
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Pablo Neruda
I think this poem is more about the impermanence of Earthly things than it is about love being irreplaceable. The main theme is that while the concept of love seems infinite, love between people is...
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Pablo Neruda
[eNotes editors can only answer one question per posting. Additional questions should be posted separately.] The tone of the poem "Saddest Poem," which is how the author feels about his subject, is...
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I can't help you with understanding "Lost in the Forest" because I am not familiar with the poetry of Pablo Neruda. But there is an excellent article on that poem in eNotes Questions and Answers...
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Pablo Neruda
"Ode to a Beautiful Nude" is rife with literary elements that include, among many others, metaphors and similes. Similes are direct comparisons between two unrelated things that do share at least...
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Pablo Neruda
The most obvious response seems to be Shakespeare's relation to the theater. Using the curtain metaphor is suggestive of the nature of some of Shakespeare's work (plays) and suggestive of the idea...
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Pablo Neruda
[eNotes editors can only answer one question per posting. If you have additional questions, please post them separately.] Perceptions in poetry are very subjective as poetry speaks to many people...
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The thesis of “Shakespeare, Prince of Light” is that William Shakespeare was such a gifted poet that his works still have value and relevance centuries later. Many people have celebrated the works...
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Pablo Neruda
It is important to remember that all of Neruda's poems were written in Spanish, and therefore what we see are translations of those poems into English. Obviously, meter is impacted by translation,...
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Pablo Neruda
Neruda's poem is one of love and romance, incredulity playing in the author's tone as he praises his love for seeing beyond his faults: "How you must have suffered getting accustomed to:me,my...
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Pablo Neruda
Matilde Urrutia was the third wife of Pablo Neruda and the subject of a series of his work, mostly sonnets. The first work of Neruda's to reference Urrutia was Los Versos del Capitan. He would...
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Pablo Neruda
"The Hunter in the Forest" is a poem which belongs to Isla Negra, a collection of verses and poems of autobiographical nature written by the master poet Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, also known...
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Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda was born in 1904, baptized as Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. Interestingly, he changed his name when he first began writing poetry to avoid embarrassing his father, who disapproved of...
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Pablo Neruda
The fourth part of Neruda’s autobiographical “Isla Negra: A Notebook”, “The Hunter in the Forest” describes the Neruda’s return to the forests he enjoyed when he was young. There are many images of...
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This poem points towards the source of good poetry being a deep dissatisfaction that abides within the soul, which expresses itself in some of the most exquisite lines in all love poetry. The...