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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Home-Learning Day 1

Today,i am going to write about a poem.Below is the poem

Saddest Poem by Pablo Neruda
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."

The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like this, I held her in my arms.
I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her.
How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.

To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.

What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.
The night is full of stars and she is not with me.

That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.
My soul is lost without her.

As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.
My heart searches for her and she is not with me.

The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.

I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.

Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once
belonged to my kisses.
Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.
Love is so short and oblivion so long.

Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,
my soul is lost without her.

Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her.
1). How is figurative language used in the poem? Give the specific word(s), explain what type of figurative language it is, and why the poet chose to use this figurative language.
Ans.In this poem,it used four types of Figuarative Language.
"The night is full of stars,and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance." The poet used personification in this sentence.He used it to emphasize how sad he could want this poem to be.
'The night wind whirls in the sky and sings'He used personification in this sentence.He used it to show how loud the wind was .
'I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky. ' He used hyperbole in this sentence.He wanted to show how much he had loved the woman
'And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass. 'He used metaphor in this sentence.He wanted to show how liveless he and his poem is after the woman left him.

2 Tell us why you like this poem in no less than 100 words.
I like this poem as the poet wrote it at night.As he wrote it at night , it was special as he described the night sky.He also expressed his sadness after his love had left him.The poet used different things which i presume he sees around him to express his sadness.
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