Even aflame, this image does not represent his love. He continues on to say that his love doesn’t resemble “arrow of carnations that the fire shoots off.” This is a more complex line to unpack but at its most basic level, he is connecting arrows and roses, and their association with ideal love. One can find, take, and keep a rose that grows by the sea, or a topaz stone. He tells her from the start that he doesn’t love her like she “were salt-rose, or topaz.” These are undoubtedly beautiful objects to own, and this is the point. As stated above, this piece is most likely addresses Neruda’s wife, Matilde Urrutia. In the first lines of this piece the speaker directly addresses his lover. In secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, Or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, In the final sestet, Neruda goes through three different statements, all of which begin with “I love you.” The last lines conclude by detailing the way their lives have become intertwined and are now indistinguishable from one another. ![]() It is an “aroma” that is living “dimly” in his body. The “hidden” nature of the flower’s light is something that has penetrated the speaker’s body. ![]() The plant is more of a representative of all other plants than is strikingly beautiful in itself. His love is like a plant that hides its beauty within itself. In the next quatrain, the speaker tells his wife why he does love her. He adds that his love is “obscure” it is not like an “arrow of carnations.” The poem begins with the speaker stating that he doesn’t love his wife like one loves beautiful objects. ‘I do not love you’ by Pablo Neruda is a fourteen-line sonnet that speaks on the poet’s complex and yet perfectly simple, love for his wife. Neruda did not choose to conform to either of these forms and instead left the rhyme loose and open. There are a few moments in the Spanish original which rhyme, but they do not come close to the traditional ABBAABBA pattern of the octet, or the varying patterns which are usually represented in the sestet. In the original though, Neruda did not make use of very much rhyme or structured meter anyway. These are features present in ‘I do not love you,’ but there are many elements of Petrarchan sonnets that do not appear in the text.ĭue to the fact that this piece was originally written in Spanish, and has since been translated to English by Mark Eisner, there is no rhyme or meter evident. It can even consist of an answer to a question posed in the first half. This is a shift in the poem which can be seen through a change in narrator, belief, or setting. Between the two-section, there is also usually a turn, or volta. In Petrarchan sonnets, the lines are usually divided into two parts, the opening octet (set of eight lines) and the following set of six, known as a sestet. ![]() ‘I do not love you’ by Pablo Neruda, also known as Sonnet 17, is a fourteen-line poem that takes the form of a Petrarchan sonnet.
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