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Title: Pablo Neruda


1
Tonight I Can Write
  • Pablo Neruda

Hannah and Chelsea Honors English II Mrs.
Strothers B Bell
2
Pablo Neruda (pen name)
  • Ricardo Eliezer Reyes y Basoalto
  • 1904-1973
  • 1945 Senator of the Republic (Chile)
  • Noble Prize for Literature 1971
  • Written more than 15 books
  • All poems were written in Spanish
  • Ode to simple everyday objects

3
Authors Connection
  • Poems were written by life experiences
  • Most poems were about love
  • Three wives
  • Emotions are expressed (up and down)
  • Agosin states, The peom makes a cleat transition
    from the area of Spanish- American modernism to
    that of surrealism, with its often disconnected
    images and metaphors, which will dominate his
    next phase of writing.

4
Poem Summary
  • Tonight the speaker can write
  • Everything that allows him to write
  • Different aspects of the relationship
  • His emotions and hopes

5
Symbolism
  • Nature imagery
  • Endless sky and his lovers infinite eyes
    line 8 and 26
  • State of Speakers mind
  • and the stars are blue and shiver in the
    distance line 3

6
Speaker/Tone
  • A person who is lonely and distant from the love
    he once knew.
  • A person who is facing reality of feelings and
    love, knowing that they can not over come what is
    meant to be.
  • Lonely
  • Somber
  • Isolated

7
Figurative Language
  • Language
  • Repetition
  • Similes
  • Distance factor
  • Images and Paradox
  • Last two lines
  • Nature
  • Sound pattern and structure

8
Theme
9
Response
  • Hannah I liked how you can love someone but you
    can get over it in a positive realistic matter.
  • Chelsea Love is good while it lasts, but when it
    is gone it hurts for a while but you have to the
    power to love again.

10
Works Cited
  • Book and websites
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