Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines by Pablo Neruda Introduction One of Pablo Neruda’s iconic love poems ‘Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines’, appeared in Neruda’s collection, “Twenty love poems and a song of Despair”. It was first published in 1924 when Neruda was nineteenth. One of the most striking aspects of the poem is its “Universality”. It’s a master piece of modern poetry. In the poem, Neruda expresses his current state of mind and the emotions. He writes about the “beauty of love”, and how it gets the power to bring peace and happiness to his soul. The poem explores, “lost love, grief, and power of art”. Structure Neruda’s poem ‘Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines’ consists of thirty-one lines. The poem is a free verse. It has no proper rhyme scheme and follows a “peculiar form” of poetry. Summary Paragraph 1: In the first seven lines, t
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