Oh the goblets of the breast! Oh the eyes of absence! The lines stated below partly reflect this image.īut the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you.īody of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk. He compared the girl with a thousand year old sculpture. Neruda's subconscious mind made a holistic image of this girl. Neruda solely surrendered himself to this physically fertile girl.
In fact, the physical intimacy between the two reached its highest point. This time Neruda was gravely involved in the physical love of a Singhalese girl who had had a bouncing figure. I never came, but in the empty cups, / in the dead dining room, / maybe my silence wasted away, / my faraway footsteps, / and maybe until death she saw me…Īllow me to dwell on another love affair of Neruda. On her face from the grief I gave her / because she was waiting for me on the other side of the world. She would add up/ my absent years/ wrinkle by wrinkle, as they probably gathered/ The following lines encapsulate how her mind was shadowed with grief when he abandoned her due to her suspicious and sadistic nature: The poem gives us the intensity of Neruda's love for Bliss and how she had a special place in his thoughts among all the women he loved. Being gravely shocked he composed two poems entitled Loves: Josie Bliss 1 and 2, a tribute to his pure love. When the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.Īgain, after Bliss's death due to the Great War he deeply felt her absence and lamented the irreparable loss.
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The following lines carry the token of his devastated but unforgotten love:ĭon't go far off, not even for a day, because-īecause-I don't know how to say it: a day is longĪnd I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station Even so, forgetting Bliss was impossible for him. To forget Bliss, Neruda went from Rangoon to Singhal. In a word, her violent nature shattered the tender love Neruda had for her. Though Bliss met Neruda's demands of body and mind adequately, her jealous, ferocious love created mental agony for him. Nevertheless, Neruda was so much engrossed in her love that it was almost impossible for him to stay away from her even for a moment.
She totally failed to understand the pure love and poet's mind in Neruda. But the affair did not last long due to Bliss' possessive nature. Neruda lovers might know that before his first marriage, Neruda while working as a Chilean diplomat in Burma fell in love with a Burmese woman named Josie Bliss. The verse in Twenty Love Poems is vigorous, poignant, and direct, yet subtle and very original in its imagery and metaphors. Perhaps this collection of poetry captures Neruda's passion of youth and unhappy love more poignantly than any other collection by him. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is still one of his most widely read books. His loneliness, bohemian lifestyle and unhappy love affair drove him to pen plenty of love poems. The way Neruda celebrates love is enthralling in different ways. As soon as one comes across the poems he/she easily perceives what Neruda wants to convey through his poetry. To realize his love poems one does not need any deep analysis, explanation, interpretation or observation. So close that your eyes close with my dreams.Īt this point, let me go through different aspects of Neruda's love poetry. So close that your hand upon my chest is mine, I love you like this because I don't know any other way to love,Įxcept in this form in which I am not nor are you, I love you directly without problems or pride: Then he recited the following lines (though he uttered the lines in Bengali, I have mentioned here the English translated stanza of those lines):
'Didn't you try Pablo Neruda', he asked? I replied, no. Without much thinking I just uttered three names: John Donne, Shakti Chattopadhyay and Shahid Qadri. Just after a brief introduction, he was asking me about my choice-list of love poets. My elder brother introduced me to the stranger. On the afternoon of that day, a man in his late fifties came to our flat. That year I was enjoying the holiday of 16 December. Let me go back to the third year of my varsity life. The way I first got introduced to the poetry of Neruda demands telling a tale. However, Octavio Paz considered Neruda 'the greatest poet of his generation.' By the same token, I would like to say, after John Donne I have found Neruda the most celebrated love poet of world literature. I assume 'love' is the only word which made Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) one of the greatest poets of his age.
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