The Lasting Love
"The Lasting Love"
In the poem "Tonight I Can Write," 20th century Chilean poet Pablo Neruda writes about his infatuation with his previous lover. In the biography of Pablo Neruda it reads that" As a teenager he received encouragement from one of his teachers, the poet Gabriela Mistral, who later won a Nobel Prize for poetry," and how "It is almost unconceivable that two such gifted poets should find each other in such an unlikely spot." One of the author's sources, Dean Rader also writes how Pablo Neruda was beyond his time, because the poet's poem is still isolated, untouchable, perfect, and flawless. Pablo Neruda expresses repeatedly how "Tonight I can write the saddest lines," meaning he couldn't write them before, when he was in his relationship. Through the use of repetition, imagery, diction, and sound devices in this poem, Pablo Neruda expresses his personal experience from his past love.
In the first four lines of "Tonight I Can Write" Neruda gives his audience an......
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