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Tonight I Can WriteThe speaker is lamenting the brevity of love. Love, no matter how intense it may be, can so often vanish into thin air. For one reason or another, lovers can fall out of love so very easily. What...
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Tonight I Can WriteThe narrator of the poem "Tonight I Can Write" is lamenting a love he has lost—this unnamed but vexing and beautiful woman. In the poem, he clearly states that he held a deep and passionate love...
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Tonight I Can WriteThis poem is above all a poem about the power of memory and bittersweet nature of reminiscence. In this poem the speaker talks about lost love and how painful memories can be. The speaker conveys...
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Tonight I Can WriteThe theme of Pablo Neruda’s poem “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines” is the finality of lost love. The narrator is finally able to express his feelings. The line “Tonight I can write the...
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Tonight I Can WriteNeruda uses night and day as a major symbolic elements in "Tonight I Can Write." As the poem progresses, the night becomes increasingly associated with the period of time when the narrator feels...
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Tonight I Can WriteAs the educator who previously answered this question mentioned, Neruda uses repetition—or a "refrain"—to create a sense of mournful suffering throughout the poem. Additionally, Neruda uses...
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Tonight I Can WriteIn many ways, this is a poem that celebrates the mood of despondency and loss and values it as being integral to the human experience. In one sense, the poet's appreciation of the beauty of the...
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Tonight I Can WriteLet us remember that metaphors are a form of figurative language in which one object or action is compared to something else but without the use of the world "like" or "as," which would be a...
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Tonight I Can WriteThe poetic form of "Tonight I Can Write" by Pablo Neruda seems loosely based on the ghazal, an Arabic poetic form that combines a metrical pattern of couplets and a refrain with themes of loss and...
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Tonight I Can WriteThis poem by Pablo Neruda explores the melancholy the speaker feels over his lost love: "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." The night has inspired the speaker to reminisce about his...
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Tonight I Can WriteThe late Nobel Prize laureate and Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) wrote poems with universal appeal, but some of which also reflected his Chilean roots. His poem “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines”...
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Tonight I Can WriteThe Random House Dictionary defines the word “elegy” as “a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.” Pablo Neruda’s poem “Tonight I can write the...
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Tonight I Can WritePablo Neruda's poem "Tonight I Can Write" is about the loss of the speaker's lover. The poem moves readers through the speaker's new ability to write about the painful experience of losing his or...
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Tonight I Can WriteThe study guide for "Tonight I can Write" can be found at the link below. Thank you for using eNotes!
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Tonight I Can Write"Tonight I Can Write" by Pablo Neruda is loosely based on a poetic form known as the "ghazal." It is originally an Arabic form that uses couplets and a refrain. The typical subject matter of the...
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Tonight I Can Write"Tonight I Can Write" shows both love and acceptance of reality both through metaphor and explicit exposition. The narrator shows how he has lost his love, and that while he is trying to forget...