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Analysis and comments on Tonight I Can Write by Pablo Neruda

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Comment 3 of 13, added on August 17th, 2005 at 12:11 AM.

The longing and pineing of this poem is the perfect idea of a person with unrequited love. The image of the starry night makes his love a fluid beauty. I can see him writing this poem next to an open window on a clear night. He put into words the way I feel.

Jennifer Hoag from United States
Comment 2 of 13, added on April 4th, 2005 at 4:55 PM.

I'm saddened to see this new system able to bring up only one poem by the great W. S. Merwin, and that one only a translation, as if he were not himself among the finest poets ever to write in English.

Poetry Connection may become able to integrate and deliver massive information for the online appreciator of poetry, but it is sad that today in response to inquiry on Merwin it offers only Pablo Neruda's "Tonight I Can Write". This is no very special poem in English notwithstanding Merwin's brilliance. It may be heart-rendingly beautiful in Spanish by sound and literary echo lost in English, but it certainly does not do what I seek in poetry. I hate to labor the point, but when I look for Merwin I do not want Neruda. --rms

Robert M. Shelby from United States
Comment 1 of 13, added on January 11th, 2005 at 9:14 AM.

A jilted lover wallows in sadness as he realizes his beloved has left him for another. The difficulty of reconciling the romantic "starry night" with his beclouded loneliness epitomizes a lover in pain amidst his beloved's happiness in someone else's arms. True love can only wish for the beloved's happiness and freedom.

millie t. ocampo from Philippines

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Poet: Pablo Neruda
Poem: Tonight I Can Write
Added: Feb 20 2003
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