In today’s society there is the looming thought of absence in many things. For some it might be the absence of a parent or an education. However, in the poem “The Morning is Full,” Pablo Neruda expresses the heartbreak of the absence of a particular season, which points to the absence of complete love in his life. Pablo Neruda is a poet from Chile who constantly expresses his feelings by describing nature, ultimately pointing at the feeling of love. "Twenty love poems and the songs of despair," says "Neruda trusts and celebrates his senses and inextricably links his experiences, quite specifically, to the natural world he loves, the damp forest of Chile." Neruda looks at nature to be in touch with his senses, which ultimately …show more content…
The central problem is the absence of intimacy in Neruda’s life. There is an absence of particular senses of which he seems to crave more. In his poem fourth poem in his twenty poem series, "The Morning is Full," he says, "the morning is full of storm in the heart of summer." Summer is typically associated with sunshine, playfulness, and happiness. Neruda surprises his reader by pairing an image of summertime with a storm. By doing so, he reveals that there is something missing from him. This is a picture of Neruda feeling depressed when he should be at ease. The poem goes on to describe different seasonal or climate changes that Neruda uses to expresses his present state of emotions. For example, he later states, "the clouds travel like white handkerchiefs goodbye, the wind, traveling, waving them in its hands." Even the clouds that Neruda looks at seem to be leaving him. As Neruda observes the world around him, he continues to see things as unfinished or fleeting. These observations reveal his longing for fulfillment, particularly through his …show more content…
A very close reading of his poem is required in order to decipher its meaning. Neruda never explicitly says what he is talking about in his fourth love poem, putting power in the hands of the reader. In his study of postmodernism in literature, Angel Daniel Mato stays, “the postmodern movement embraces instability and skepticism as its main traits.” This idea is evidenced in “The Morning is Full” because Neruda has love, but it is unstable, unpredictable, and even unusual. Postmodernist writers also desire for their reader to fill in gaps and make their own assumptions about a work. Neruda intentionally discusses a lover throughout this poem, yet still continues to echo a theme of emptiness in his life. It is an interesting concept for someone to acknowledge that they have love in their life, but to also reveal the feeling or fact that something is still missing. This incompletion is shown in the lines “Wind that topples her in a wave without spray / and substance without weight, and leaning fires.” Neruda uses conflicting descriptions to portray his lover experiencing fragmented things. She is toppled in a wave without spray; This image is less powerful than a huge, all encompassing tsunami wave. True love would take her by storm and overcome her, but this image shows the weakness present in their