Monday, March 2, 2009

My favourite poem



Tonight I can write- Pablo Neruda

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example,
'The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.

'The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is starry and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.



What do you think about this poem? For me, it's a very sad poem. The persona showed his feeling through this poem, how sad he felt when his lover found a new man. Well, why I'm feeling sentimental today? I just broke up with my boyfriend. Hehe. No, just joking. Actually, I suddenly remembered my teacher who tought me English Literature(Big 'E') when I was in school last time. One day, she asked everyone in my class to choose our favourite poem from any of the poems she had taught us. So, I picked this poem.

English Literature(EL). At first, I hate this subject very much. Although I don't have to take this subject, but my teacher forced me to(just because she knew my mother, so unfair!). However, as days go by I began to fell in love with this subject. It's something different from the other common subject we've learned in school. It's a subject about our life; people's behaviour, how to appriciate what we have and how to improve our life.

Basically, from this subject I manage to analyse poems. Suprisingly, the more poems I analyse the more similarities I found in the poems. What I meant was everyone actually require the same need; to be loved, to be appriciated, to have a happier life, and many more(i can't remember).

It's natural for human being. Everyone want to be loved, from their families, friend, teachers, including their lovers. A life without love is just like a cake without sugar, a song without rythm, rice without any side-dishes. So boring and empty. Whereas, I'm sure all of us want to be appriciated by someone esspecially our family. There's no meaning to live if no one need us. For example, an employee need his employer to appriciate hiswork so that he will feel eager to continue his work. Love and appreciation can lead to a happier life. Who don't want to be happy??? If this person exist, he/she must be crazy or mental disorder. That's why I say everyone has the same need.

Back to the poem above,I think there's a similarity in this poem with me. When I was 11 years old, I lost a person whom I really love. So, the line ''love is so short, forgetting is so long'' means a lot to me.

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