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The poem ”Tonight I Can Write” by Pablo Neruda expresses the speaker’s love towards the person he valued and the hatred and regret that he had when she was not with him anymore, and that night when everything occurred, he is able to write the saddest lines. The author is speaking from his view and that he is talking to the one that he valued and loved who has disappeared about the times that he had with her and the regret he might have had after she disappeared. The author, who is the speaker, is currently able to write the saddest lines tonight and that he feels the need to speak out to the one’s soul that he loved who has disappeared now. The location of the speaker is unknown as of the current time of his situation. He begins with “Tonight …show more content…

“The night wind revolves in the sky and sings (Line 4),” gives an extra detail onto the setting and goes back to Line 1 and relates to the “saddest line.” Line 5, “Tonight I can write the saddest lines,” is a phrase or line that the speaker is trying to put into your minds throughout the entire poems, meaning it’ll have repetition and is a very important phrase in the poem. “I loved her, sometimes she loved me too (Line 6),” expresses that he valued “her” and lover “her,” but she would sometimes love him back but as stated to not be a guarantee. Line 7, “Through nights like this one I held her in my arms,” shows that the speaker really valued her and wanted a sense of presence from her …show more content…

“How could one not have loved her great still eyes (Line 10),” links that that the speaker expresses outloud that how can any lover avoid her great still eyes. Line 11, “Tonight I can write the saddest line,” is the speaker’s repetition to get this thought into the reader’s mind. “To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her (Line 12),” shows speaker’s emotion as he thinks about her not being with him and feels like he has truly lost her. Line 13 says “To hear the immense night, still more immense without her,” meaning without the one he loved, the night feels longer and larger in presence. “And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture (Line 14),” shows a simile between the lines he writes, the verse they produce falls into his heart’s soul just like how raindrops dew into the pasture. “What does it matter that my love could not keep her (Line 15),” expresses his frustration that his love was not able to keep her with him. “The night is starry and she is not with me (Line 16),” states that the night is still starry even though she is not with the speaker. Line

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