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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 WriteOne theme, the main theme, is the emptiness caused by lost love in an immense universe. The two ideas of love and universe are tied inseparably together in Neruda’s poem. The poetry "falls" into...
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Pablo NerudaThis 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...
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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...
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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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The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockThe repetition in this poems is of differing styles therefore serves different purposes and has different effects. Simply put, the effect of repetition on Neruda's poem is that it produces a hollow...
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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...
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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 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...
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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 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 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 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 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...