Identify at least five imagery in the poem
"Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines"
by Pablo Neruda Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example, The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings, Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms. I kissed her again and again under the endless sky. She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines: To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.
To hear the immense night, still more immense without her. And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.
What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is starry and she is not with me.
This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer. My heart looks for her, and she is not with me
The same night whitening the same trees. We, of that time, are no longer the same.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her. My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.
Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses. Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long
Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.
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Answer:
d"The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance" - This line creates the image of a beautiful starry night, with the stars appearing blue and distant, adding a sense of loneliness and isolation to the scene.
"The night wind revolves in the sky and sings" - This line personifies the wind as a singing being that revolves in the sky, adding a sense of movement and emotion to the scene.
"I held her in my arms. I kissed her again and again under the endless sky." - This line creates the image of two lovers embracing each other under the vast and infinite sky, emphasizing the intensity of their love.
"To hear the immense night, still more immense without her. And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture." - This line creates an image of a vast and empty night, which becomes even more vast and empty without the beloved. The simile "the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture" evokes a sense of sadness and melancholy.
"My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer. My heart looks for her, and she is not with me" - This line creates the image of a person searching for their lost love, trying to bring them closer even though they are not physically present. The image emphasizes the longing and yearning that the speaker feels for their beloved.