Tonight I can write the saddest lines - Summary and Analysis :
Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet diplomat who had been considered as one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. However, it is his pen name, Pablo Neruda. From the age of thirteen, he started to write poetry, and later on, he won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971. However, Pablo Neruda’s Tonight I Can Write the saddest lines - this poem was published when he was just 19 years old.
Summary: In this poem, we find a poetical verse of lamentation of the poet’s former ladylove. However, we can also say it is the break up of poetic persona’s as we don’t know to want to fall under the critics.
But, the main fact is that how the poet expresses his feelings towards her former ladylove is magnificent. We can say the poem is based upon a set of flashbacks. The mutual or the connecting thing is the moonly night, by which the poet can see the past.
On this type of same night, the poet and his beloved were together under the same sky. Today, almost the same but the poet and his beloved are separated from each other. In the poem, the poet is always trying to remember their memorable moments of that night. He can see the differences and the blankness of this night as compare to the past. His beloved is no more with him and now becomes another’s. The poet feels very deeply that the time experienced with his loved one seems very short as compare to the forgetting after her departure.
Lastly, the poet closes the poem by saying that these are the last verses for her. And, he promises to himself not to feel more extra pain after this. Thus, the poem ends.
Analysis:
“Tonight I can write…………. sky and wings.”
The poet has started the poem by saying that tonight he can write the saddest lines. Later on, we will get to know that these saddest lines state nothing but the break-up of their (his and her beloved) relationship.
However, in the next line, he says, ‘The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.’ The night is not shattered, it happened with their relationship. The night wind is found singing songs (pathetic) metaphorically.
“Tonight I can……………..her great still eyes.”
This time, the same line has also been repeated by the poet to emphasize his lamentation. Now, the poet is saying he loved her and sometimes her ladylove also did the same. In the upcoming line, the poet is found to be nostalgic. He remembers a similar night like tonight when he held her in his arms and kissed her again and again under this same (endless) sky. Next, he praises the eyes of his beloved.
“Tonight I can…………………….that it has lost her.”
From here, the poet starts to get emotional. Now, his imagination has been interrupted by his mind as well as his present circumstances. She is not with him, this is now in the mind of the poet.
As it is a moonly night, so the night seems very much long to the poet. Besides this, his beloved is no more with him, so the night seems broader to the poet. And the poet imagines these verses are falling to his soul as the dew to the pasture. According to the poet, his love could not keep her though he had tried so many times.
Again, this time there is an imaginary pathetic song is being sung by someone. Perhaps, the song is the indication that the poet’s soul is not satisfied as it has lost her.
“My sight searches for her……….to touch her hearing.”
The poet is saying that his sight searches for her to see her beautiful face. His heart also wants to connect to her, but the sad thing is she not with him (the poet).
Now, the poet is saying it is the same night, the trees seem white because of the moonlight, but the time is not the same. That was past and it is the present. However, the poet thinks that now she doesn’t love her but did at once whole-heartedly. At that time, he did enjoy her company, conversations between them.
“Another’s………………...that I write for her.”
Now, in the next line, the poet is found to be very materialistic and we can say he was very much bound to his beloved. The poet feels now she is another’s and he does not have the right to touch her or to make love. Her bright body, infinite eyes are now another’s a source of joy, pleasure, inspiration.
In the next line, the poet became confused, he loves her now or does not- it becomes a question mark. However, the poet gives a philosophical remark about love. And that is - “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” And the whole answer of the poem whether the poet loves her till now or not lies on this line.
However, the poet ends the poem by assuring that these are the last verses for her and somehow he is praying to consider this moment as his last pain.
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