I first read this heart-touching poem when I was 14, and I immediately fell in love with it. It is not that unusual that I got it even though I was just 14; the simple language, symbols, and metaphors Neruda uses suggest his attempt to portray the pain of a lost love in a very comprehensible way. Neurda also explores emotions that almost everyone can relate to. The repetition of Tonight I can write the saddest lines shows how the speaker is struggling to maintain distance, to convince himself that enough time has passed for him to have the strength to think about his lost love. But these lines are the saddest; he cannot yet escape the pain of remembering. It becomes almost unbearable to think that I do not have her, to feel that I have lost her. His loneliness is reinforced by the immense night, still more immense without her. Yet the poetry that he creates helps replenish his soul like dew to the pasture. While reading the poem you can almost feel the sadness that lies in the poem's voice. The poem is a powerful depiction of tragic feelings, memories, pain, worries about the departed love. Neruda illustrates the agony of a failed love while reminiscing the beautiful days he used to spend with his beautiful beloved .He also seems to convey that his beloved used to love him occasionally, as if she was knowing that their relation is not going to remain forever. My favorite line Love is so short and forgetting is so long is highly filled with the sad feelings the poet feels after separating from his beloved. Tonight I can write the saddest lines read very emotionally and beautifully by Andy Garcia:
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