1. The Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
... further away from him which would free him from feeling so down. With the very next lines, I feel as if the author really hints at why he and his lover are no longer together. "Oh flesh, my own flesh, woman whom I loved and lost, I summon you in the moist hour, I raise my song to you ... later in the poem, the author uses a metaphor that proves the point that he has moved on from his lover. "Cemetery of kisses, there is still fire in your tombs, still the fruited boughs burn, pecked at by birds." (594). I think the author uses the word cemetery as another way of saying that the relation...
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- Grade Level: High School