Pablo Neertruda Hyperbole

Improved Essays
Pablo Neruda was a poet by the age of 10. He Wrote in a variety of styles such as a epics, historical poems, love poems and many other styles. Pablo was a senator of the Chilean Communist Party for one year. Pablo was hospitalised with cancer but left five days later after he suspected a doctor of ingesting an unknown substance in his stomach for the purpose of murdering him. Neruda died six and a half hours later after the injection on September 23, 1973. He was 69 years old. The government forbidden his funeral but the community loved him so much they disobeyed the curfew and crowded the streets. Neruda unconventional use of hyperbole, and metaphor emphasizes his meaning of love toward his wife. First, Pablo Neruda used metaphors to compare his love to other things.. For example Neruda used a metaphor in the poem “Potter”, Neruda described what his love toward that women is, when he wrote that, “We are …show more content…
For instance in the poem “A Song Of Despair” he compared her to the sea and other thing, for example he wrote,” In the childhood of mist my soul, winged and wounded.Lost discoverer, in you everything sank”(Poemhunter.com)! He exaggerated when he said everything sank into her and that would have meant that she took all of him away from him. Pablo Neruda talks about how he hunts for her in the poem called “Love Sonnet XI”. He said, “and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,/hunting for you, for your hot heart,/like a puma in the barrens of Quirtaue. He used hyperbole when he said he talked about hunting for her but he really means he was searching for her, the perfect girl for him. And lastly he used hyperbole in the poem “Everyday You Play….” he talked sexually in this poem, for instance, “My words rained over you, stroking you./A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of your body”(hellopoetry.com). This showed hyperbole and the theme of love but

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    2nd Essay: Responding to Poetry Poetry mainly describes love, loss, and regret. However, every writer adds his or her own twist. For example, “Last Night” by Sharon Olds and “Cherrylog Road” by James Dickey deals with the same theme but are two different pieces of writing. They explore the theme of forbidden love and use imagery to show the lust between the two characters.…

    • 1057 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    “Tuning, Tying, and Training Texts” by Barbara Tomlinson emphasizes on metaphors being a key idea in revising and composing writing. “Patterns of figurative expressions are an important part of our socially shared knowledge of composing and that, as such, they influence our conceptions of composing—and may we influence our composing behavior” (Tomlinson, 58). Basically saying, that metaphors are commonly used to explain feelings and ideas towards the pathway for revising. Just like Lakoff and Johnson say, “we have found that most of our ordinary conceptual system is metaphorical in nature”…

    • 1809 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Imagery is the use of figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. In Maya Angelou’s selection from her memoir, Sister Flowers, Angelou uses imagery to help the readers paint and imagine a realistic picture in one’s mind. The author writes, “The sweet smell of vanilla had met us as she opened the door” (par. 29). This description of the fragrant vanilla scent allows the reader to experience the smell along with Marguerite. Angelou chooses to include descriptive words and phrases to emphasize the smell the reader is encountering.…

    • 191 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Juggler is a poem written by Richard Wilbur in 1949. While illustrating an animated juggler and his talents, Richard Wilbur uses imagery and figurative language to reveal that the speaker thoroughly enjoys the juggler’s act. This piece expresses the juggler’s performance through descriptive imagery and conveys that the speaker takes pleasure in what the juggler does. For example, “it takes a sky-blue juggler with five red balls to shake our gravity up”(5-10).…

    • 540 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    1. Lively feelings, in which our heart is tattooed with marks of nostalgia and suffering. They are in my opinion, what makes each person grow as a human being to their potential end. Professor Postman in his book "The World Weavers / The World Makers" does not mention the importance of the relationship between feelings and metaphors and how this combination can take us to places never lived. Based on my experience as a human being - a testament to imperfection - circumstances like those mentioned above are to blame for the sweetest and most hurtful metaphors.…

    • 912 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “I think I should have loved you presently, And given in earnest words I flung in jest” (1-2). Here she parrots the title of her sonnet and says to the man that she wishes she had meant all of the sweet nothings passed between them, the “words [she] flung in jest.” As if to prove to him that she is being serious in her words now, she further escalates her language in the subsequent lines: “And lifted honest eyes for you to see, And caught your hand against my cheek and breast” (3-4). Millay is boldly acknowledging her sexual relationship with the man and that she wishes she had “caught [his] hand.” By this she means that she wishes she could have returned his affections and savored the intimacy between them, that she understands the truth of her feelings now looking back with “honest eyes” she wishes she had had then.…

    • 1284 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In the poems, Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy and Let me describe for you her eyes by Glenn Colquhoun, the writers have used many different language techniques to show their thoughts on relationships. In Valentine, Carol Ann Duffy uses metaphors and personification to communicate her ideas about love. She thinks that love isn’t always good and joyful and can be miserable and heart breaking. In Let me describe for you her eyes, Glenn Colquhoun uses metaphors and similes to let the readers know his ideas and perspective on love. He shows that love can cause a lot of pain and it doesn’t always turn out the way you want.…

    • 1271 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    “Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it” a quote by Rabindranath Tagore, summarizes the themes implemented in “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, and “What we Talk About When we Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver. These two stories, contain a husband and wife who attempt to decipher the meaning of love. Hemingway’s characters do this subliminally, whereas Carver’s character’s discuss the meaning in a much broader fashion. Both authors have similar writing strategies, but have a few differing literary techniques. These two aforementioned stories, use similar structures and setting, but contrast in their use of symbols, to convey the author’s negative attitudes of love through their themes.…

    • 1350 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    1. In this ode, Neruda includes similes. For example, “it’s as soft as woman’s hip” (Neruda 17). A simile is a comparison using the words “like” or “as”. Similes create imagery, so that the reader can better understand an object or a character.…

    • 1405 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A Story About War Stephen Crane 's The Red Badge of Courage presents a unique view of the Civil War through the point of view of a soldier, Henry Fleming. By using this point of view, readers see the realities of war from someone experiencing them rather than the typical unfeeling articles by those who were never on the front lines. One strategy that Crane uses to create this vivid image of war is the use of figurative language, specifically similes and metaphors. Let 's explore these literary terms and their use in this novel. Definition of Metaphor and Simile Metaphors and similes are two examples of figurative language used by many writers to add visual appeal and help readers make connections with the characters and events of the story.…

    • 787 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Grammy award winning R&B artist, Adele, conquered the billboards with the number one album ‘21’, selling over million copies. Her most popular song on the album is “Someone like you”, which tells the story of her previous lover. Though she wants nothing but the best for her ex, she prays he remembers the good in the relationship. This soulful song lures in people with situations similar to hers, such as; having to move on from a break up when your heart doesn’t want to and staying strong in knowing it was a reason the relationship ended in the first place, so don’t look back. The poet, Adele, uses various elements of poetry to create a theme of love.…

    • 1157 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby is a memoir that tells readers about Bauby’s life after, and some memories before, he had a stroke. He was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, who suffered from a stroke at the age of forty-three that leaves him paralyzed. Unfortunately, he suffers from “locked-in syndrome” until he passed away. Throughout the memoir, Bauby still uses many different types of figurative language, especially symbols and metaphors, and can still find the irony in certain situations, considering he composed it with just the use of blinking his left eye. It shows that imagination isn’t always lost in times of hardship and it can help readers gain some insight through the author’s point of view.…

    • 1118 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Metaphors are figures of speech that bring comparison or analogies between two things that are considered to lack similarity. It brings in the visual description of what is being described. For instance in Sylvia Path’s poem “Metaphors”, the writer brings out the visual description of a pregnant woman using an elephant. The size of a pregnant woman is huge hence the comparison with an elephant which is also huge though a woman and an elephant are different in many ways like an elephant is an animal with a trunk but a woman is a human being with no trunk. Susan Glaspell’s use of the word Trifles as a metaphor contributes to and illustrates theme, tone and characterization in the play in the approach described below.…

    • 1074 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Full of Emptiness 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. "…

    • 820 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In the essay Love’s Vocabulary by Diane Ackerman the figurative language that the author uses is analogy to support that love is not monotone and uniform through the lines 60-62. As Ackerman is explaining about love she mentions, “ Like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.” This stipulates that batik is representing love for the reason that it expresses different emotions and colors through the whole batik. Also as Ackerman is talking about feeling when you go into an elevator she claims “ People search for love as if the desert dunes, where pleasure is the the law the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.” This indicates that people look for love in a…

    • 153 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays