LitAide

The poem "Keeping Quiet" is written by Pablo Neruda, a Nobel laureate author. In this poem, he conveys the message of mindful introspection and asks his readers to avoid to maintain stillness and avoid hasty life. The poem begins with the poet calling for counting will twelve after which stillness is attained for some time. During this time of introspection, he urges his readers to stop speaking in any worldly language and stop our mental and physical movements for that moment. Everyone would cherish the moment because there would be no hastiness and no one would run in a hurry. This soothing activity would unite all of us because then we would have the time to understand ourselves and others. The word "engine" symbolises the way of the modern fast moving world. To support his claim, Neruda gives instances of fishermen and salt-gatherer. In the moment of silence, fishermen would not harm any living sea creature like a whale. The salt-gatherer would deliberatel...

The poem "Tonight I can Write" is written by Pablo Neruda, a renowned poet of the 20th century and a Nobel Laureate. The poem is part of the collection of poems known as "Twenty Love Poems And A Song Of Despair", published in 1924. The poem deals with the narrator's melancholic outburst after the departure of his beloved. He wants to write a sad verse on his mental distress. The narrator begins the poem by saying that that day he would write his "most saddest lines" as he would put all his mental pain and heartbreaking emotions on the paper. He attributes his anguish to the non-living objects in nature such as that :       " The night is shattered         and the blue stars shiver in the distance" This figure of speech is called Transfer Epithet. He admits that he love her and she loved him too. They had enjoyed physical intimacy between them. He loved her "great still eyes". He regrets his loss, he doesn't give any rea...