Ms. Ali ALshehab
Language A
November 28, 2016
Tonight, I can write… analysis
Tonight, I can write is a poem was written by the poet Pablo Neruda and his real name is Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoulto, he was born in Chile July 12,1904 and he was dead in September 23,1973. This poem is originally Spanish and was translated by an W.S Merwin post in US.
The theme of the poem is about losing the one he loved and talking about the past, and present like when he said “though nights like this one I held her in my arms”. This poem is considered as a type of a romantic genre other than all. He expressed his feeling by having a conflict between the mind and the soul, when he said “My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer. …show more content…
we can also explore examples of personification in the third line “the blue stars shiver in the distance". The poet also experienced metaphor when said “The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance”. And he used metaphor one more time when saying “The night wind revolves in the sky and sings”. he also used smile when he said “Through nights like this one I held her in my arms I kissed her again and again under the endless sky”. Meanwhile he exaggerated with hyperbole when he said “To hear the immense night, still more immense without her. And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the …show more content…
The night is shattered and she is not with me."
Repetition in this poem, Pablo Neruda mostly uses repetition other than any other poetic element for his poetry. The line “tonight I can write the saddest lines”. Was repeated throughout all the poem, this lines was repeated many times to express his feelings toward him losing the one he loved with sadness when he said "Tonight I can write the saddest lines/To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her."
The poet Pablo Neruda linked his poem “tonight I can write” to the global context identities and relationship, he linked it by having a relation between him and the one he loved sharing the identities of each other knowing that every relationship has it’s