Pablo Neruda’s “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines” Lines is originally written in Spanish version entitled “Puede Escribir” since Neruda is a Chilean poet. He had inspired many people because of his verses. He is a political activist and his verses fall in the Post Modern Period. This paper talks about the personal response of the reader with the poem “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines” and this aims to create a voice of the saddest and shattered lines of what Pablo Neruda wrote to impel people in ways that spoken words cannot.
Often times, people cannot deny the fact that everyone had those relationships that people is still holding to it even if it bleeds us. People still cling to it because of the memories of what used to be. Moving on seems so hard. It is like being on a dead-end road where one cannot escape from it. It is leading to isolate – to long for those bygone days.
All of a sudden, the atmosphere felt so lonely and so blue. For Mr. Neruda, he felt those painful ways too. Just as he wrote in the first saddest line, “The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in distance”, he suffered and felt the pains and shivers of the cold and lonely night. Just as when people get hurt, it is normal to feel broken, shattered, crumpled and humiliated or even steeped on. When someone feels like being shattered into pieces, one can always feel the surroundings around felt the same way too, broken. Nothing can help people to move on but through time and space, with it, everyday seemed so longer than it was.
All the good times had already passed, what is left is the wishful thinking that it is still there. Mr. Neruda wrote on the fifth line, “through nights like this one I held her in my arms I kissed her again and again under the endless sky” the more people think of those memories, the more people usually want those memories to go back. Psychology says that