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What does the last line, "The moon lives in the lining of your skin" in "Ode to a beautiful nude" mean?

Discuss the imagery in "Everyday You Play" by Pablo Neruda.

In Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda, who is the persona talking to?

"We Are Many" has been called a "geography of self" poem. What do you think the term means?

What imagery is used in the poem "If You Forget Me" by Pablo Neruda?

What are the themes of “The Way Spain Was” by Pablo Neruda?

Explain the metaphors used by Pablo Neruda in "If You Forget Me."

Could you please give me a summary of "Ars Poetica" by Pablo Neruda?

Provide some meaning to the line "I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps" in "Love Sonnet XI" by Pablo Neruda.

What is the tone of the poem "If You Forget Me"?

Explain Pablo Neruda's poem "Ode to Tomatoes."

What are the rhetorical devices in the poem "La Standard Oil Co." by Pablo Neruda?

What are some metaphors Pablo Neruda uses in "Every Day You Play"?

Please explain Pablo Neruda's "Lost in the Forest," stanza by stanza.  http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lost-in-the-forest/

What is the thesis of "Shakespeare, Prince of Light" by Pablo Neruda?

In Pablo Neruda's Sonnet VI ('"Lost in the forest...'"), how is the theme of loss and memory developed using the metaphor of "voice?"

In the poems "The Heights of Macchu Picchu" and "Middle Passage," what is similar and different about how Neruda and Hayden testify to the past? How do you explain these similarities and differences? Which poem do you find more compelling, and why?

What is the tone used in the poem: "Every day you play" by Pablo Neruda? Can you give me at least two examples where I can notice the tone expressed in the poem?

What is "The Saddest Poem" by Pablo Neruda about?

What is the tone used in the poem, "If You Forget Me" by Pablo Neruda?

What is the central idea of  "Ode to Clothes"  by Pablo Neruda?

In Pablo Neruda's Sonnet VI ("Lost in the forest..."), what do sound devices add to the poem? I'm especially confused about the effect of the only rhyme 'mind-behind' in the poem.

What are the hidden meanings behind each of the 15 sections of Pablo Neruda's Canto General?

Could you explain the poem "Here I Love You" by Pablo Neruda in detail so that I will be able to understand the following: the meaning of "here," "there," "black cross," "the wet soul," "dark pines," "moon's glowing," the speaker's happiness at night, his love for the beloved among cold things, pessimism or optimism expressed in the poem, the beloved's death or presence in another country, the use of images, the poem's structure, and so on?

Why does the speaker insist that his lover return his love in "If You Forget Me"?

What can you say about the meter in "Ode to a Beautiful Nude"?

Please provide examples of the kinds of figures of speech used in the poem, "Every day you play" by Pablo Neruda.

Discuss the poem "Flood" by Pablo Neruda from an environmental perspective.

What does the fifth stanza in "Ode to a Beautiful Nude" mean?

What are imagery, tone and metaphors used by Pablo Neruda in "Saddest Poem?"

Kinnell's "Blackberry Eating" and Neruda's "Sweetness, Always."  How do these poems construct a connection between eating and lang./wri./poet.   Original question: Consider Galway Kinnell's "Blackberry Eating" and Pablo Neruda's "Sweetness, Always."  How do those two poems construct the connection between eating and language / writing / poetry?

Can you please give me a biography of Pablo Neruda?

What is an analysis of the Matilde Urrutia sonnets?

What are the themes in Hunter in The Forest by Pablo Neruda?

What are the images used by Neruda in Hunter in the Forest? hunter after roots

Can you suggest any theme of the poem "The Saddest Poem" by Pablo Neruda? Something like "love is irreplaceble."

What metaphors are there in "Ode to a beautiful nude"?

Why is this an appropriate metaphor for him to use? Shakespeare, Prince of Light - Pablo Neruda In the second last paragraph, Neruda talks about “raising the curtain” on Shakespeare. Why is this an appropriate metaphor for him to use?

Are the last five lines of the poem "I'm explaining a few things" by Neruda more effective in English or Spanish?