1. Amabel Jeon, Eddie Smintina, Jasmine Ye, Shruti Karanth
Pablo
Neruda
I don’t love you as if you were a rose
Translated by Mark Eisner
Amabel Jeon, Eddie Smintina,
Jasmine Ye, Shruti Karanth

2. One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII (Mañana)1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries
the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself,
and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose
from the earth lives dimly in my body.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you directly without problems or pride:
I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love,
except in this form in which I am not nor are you,
so close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my dreams.

3. The Sonnet Shakespearean Sonnets Neruda’s One Hundred Love Sonnets
Themes of passage of time, love, beauty and mortality
Three quatrains, One Couplet (14 lines total)
Iambic Pentameter
Neruda’s One Hundred Love Sonnets
Focused on theme of love
Two quatrains, One six-line stanza
Quick background on sonnets since this is the first of Neruda’s sonnets that we have looked at.
Shakespeare popularized the sonnet in the 1600’s and focused on the following concepts: slide
Neruda’s approach is as follows: slide

4. Neruda’s Style One Hundred Love Sonnets
Neruda does not idealize beauty and love
Neruda’s work began to move away from the highly political stance it had taken during the 1930s
Renowned for use of sensual and erotic imagery today

5. Context 1952 - Return from exile to Chile
Published One Hundred Love Sonnets
Secret affair with Matilde Urrutia
Most accomplished work after
returning from exile
Celebrates his love for Urritia
In between first two points: During this time, he traveled the world and promoted his books and gave speeches
Affair: While married to his first wife, Del Carril, he had a secret affair with Matilde Urrutia

6. Matilde Urrutia Third wife of Neruda
Public Singer; dropped everything for the marriage
1949: Hired by Neruda when she caught his attention at a concert in Santiago
1955: Delia legally leaves Neruda and Matilde transforms from a mistress living in a secret to Neruda’s wife
Stayed by his side even when he cheated on her with her niece
Married in 1966

7. Their Secret Love Affair
La Chascona: house in Santiago which served as a secret den for two to hide from the public
Two Faced Urrutia:
Public Singer
Neruda’s Lover

8. Dominant Effect
Neruda uses repetition, sensory details, and a gradual shift from flower imagery to a lack of imagery to emphasize the simplistic nature of love.

9. I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
Line 1-2
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
Flower Imagery!

10. I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
Line 3-4
I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Dark
Imagery!

11. I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries
Line 5-6
I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries
the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself,
Flower Imagery!

12. and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose
Line 7-8
and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose
from the earth lives dimly in my body.
Sensory
Imagery!

13. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
Line 9-10
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you directly without problems or pride:
Anaphora!
(Repetition)

14. I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love,
Line 11-12
I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love,
except in this form in which I am not nor are you
Repetition!

15. so close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
Line 13-14
so close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my dreams.
Anaphora and Sensory Imagery!

16. Summary of Techniques and Effects
Repetition (more specifically- anaphora)
Sensory Imagery
Shift from flower imagery to no imagery
Highlights the simplistic nature of love
Emphasizes that love is an internal/personal feeling
Shifts away from the traditional love poem- shows how his love is unique

17. Works Cited
“Biography of Pablo Neruda.” Chile Culture. Chile Culture Society, n.d. Web. 18. Nov. 2014
Eirmann, Katherena. "100 Love Poems, Poets and Poetry at Aspirennies.com." 100 Love Poems, Poets and Poetry at Aspirennies.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Nov
"Great Love Poems by Pablo Neruda ." AngelFire. AngelFire, n.d. Web. 19 Nov
"Sonnet XVII: I Do Not Love You as If You Were Brine-rose, Topaz." Famous Poems, Famous Poets. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Nov