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Comment 16 of 16, added on February 20th, 2009 at 3:45 PM.
Omg, Maria when I read your comment I started crying!! That is soo sad that you might have found your one true love and you were married to someone else!!! But, maybe God does have a bigger plan for you. Hope everything workds out!
Holly-Ann from United States
Comment 15 of 16, added on January 3rd, 2009 at 8:09 AM.
..this poem tells us how hard to forget a person who was once the most important person in your life..this poem is really good for it tells a story that really happens in the real life..
forgetting is a very long process..and what hurts most is that you'll not totally forget something for there will always be things that will remind you of the past..
joanne from Philippines
Comment 14 of 16, added on November 16th, 2008 at 9:49 PM.
I dint understand the poem first time i read..than i go through again n again and i find the poem is interesting..neruda get the attention of thousand of readers..he is simply the best poet ever!
Shazz from Malaysia
Comment 13 of 16, added on August 4th, 2008 at 11:23 PM.
What a wonderful write. This is By far one of my Favorite Poems, If Not My Favorite all Together. There is never a time that I read this piece and do not get tears in my eyes. My favorite line is "We, of that time, are no longer the same." Oh My what a powerful Line. It Hold in it the very essence of the entire piece. Bravo Mr. Neruda.
Lyric from United States
Comment 12 of 16, added on June 27th, 2006 at 10:25 PM.
It's a sad and true poem. I always thought I understood it. I've had break ups before and felt longing for the past. But this last time, my girlfriend broke up with me. She began dating someone else. I tried to remain friends with her thinking she might come back. She did love me once. But it was near impossible to spend time with her. She wasn't the same person towards me. It was more as if I was her younger brother. I deleted her phone number after the last time we met. She only lives ten blocks from me but the gap between us is huge.
She's gone. I miss her. I want her back and I hate her. Neruda's poem perfectly catches the longing and the heartache as well as the mixed emotions one feels in this situation. Also, this is a great translation of it.
gabe from United States
Comment 11 of 16, added on June 20th, 2006 at 4:52 PM.
one afternoon I've found and read this poem (or maybe it found me,'cause I'm not a poetry fan).I was in a happy relationship back than, but still those verses made me cry."I never want to fill this kind of pain" - went trought my mind in that moment,went trought my heart while looking at my lover. Wish didn't came true. I will only say that it fealt just the way Neruda wrote. And from time to time, when the memories fill my heart with saddness, I open my little white book and reed the poem...in those starry nights Neruda is my only frend,the only one who understands...
thank you,Pablo
Chris from Croatia
Comment 10 of 16, added on May 21st, 2006 at 11:52 PM.
I have my own interpretation of this poem, but that is my own, and not what I am writing about. I read something when I was browsing through the comments on my favorite poem which moved me so strongly to respond to it. Comment 1 of 9, "true love can only wish for the beloved's happiness and freedom"....no. This is not human nature. Do not mistaken me, true love does not wish for the beloved's misfortune and harm, but true love DEFINITELY does not wish for the beloved's freedom....TRUE love always wishes that the beloved return, no matter how much time has passed. True love never wishes for the beloved's happiness, not with another as Neruda communicated in this poem, this will always evoke a painfully deep sadness. I have a very hard time believing that someone would wish that a TRUE love would be free and happy with another than with him/herself
Adam K. M. Jenkins from Canada
Comment 9 of 16, added on May 7th, 2006 at 3:10 PM.
neruda i always thought was too much about love .but this is one simple and nice poem.i could understand every lien as though it were from mien own head.am not sure what it evokes in me.im deeply saddened by these lines.i wish i knew why he wrote them too.
dipa from India
Comment 8 of 16, added on April 13th, 2006 at 6:05 AM.
Met a wonderful man 3 months before i married my boyfriend for 5 years...I had a relationhip with him that moved me,i fell in love with him coz i think he loved me in a different way...But i grew up in a very traditional and conservative environment, how i wished i can cancel my wedding day...,but that will hurt my family and the guy who waited for me for 5 years...So i have to give up the new guy and say goodbye...one night,He read me this poem over the phone (that time i didnt really understand what the message was,but i cried listening to him saying...Love is so short,forgetting is so long)...few days later he sent me a copy...and that hurt me so much,the poem was amazing,Pablo was so amazing...I wanted to run away and be with him,but it was too late for me...I'm married now...i can say that i regret not able to choose him,but i think God has other plans for me.
Maria from Philippines
Comment 7 of 16, added on November 17th, 2005 at 10:35 PM.
this poem has touched me a lot....."tonight i can write the saddest lines" is my favorite verse....it shows how much the pain and heartache the person in the poem feels...this poem makes me feel loved and sorrowfulness...it makes me think back to times where i was in that same position and helps me through the hard time of the love process!!!!!
kathy c. from China
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Omg, Maria when I read your comment I started crying!! That is soo sad that you might have found your one true love and you were married to someone else!!! But, maybe God does have a bigger plan for you. Hope everything workds out!
Holly-Ann from United States