Morning by Pablo Neruda

This is a slideshow rendition of a poem written by Pablo Neruda entitled Morning, interpreted by Sting.

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Morning (Love Sonnet XXVII)
by Pablo Neruda

Naked you are simple as one of your hands;
Smooth, earthy, small, transparent, round.
You've moon-lines, apple pathways
Naked you are slender as a naked grain of wheat.

Naked you are blue as a night in Cuba;
You've vines and stars in your hair.
Naked you are spacious and yellow
As summer in a golden church.

Naked you are tiny as one of your nails;
Curved, subtle, rosy, till the day is born
And you withdraw to the underground world.

As if down a long tunnel of clothing and of chores;
Your clear light dims, gets dressed, drops its leaves,
And becomes a naked hand again.

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[PoetryETrain]

This has been added to our playlists here, and on facebook, thanks...

[OmShaiyah]

This is prose

beautiful extatic revealing naked soul prose

Love it for what it is rather than regretting what it could have been....very similar to love...

[kurtepearl]

@kleinama9870 OK right, but surely the Volta/turn should still be in place, also the translator should make sure of the regular meter, no? The meter is all over the place. Some lines are much longer than others. I do a lot of fiddling about with meter and it is totally possible (easy, even) to take someone else's text and just juggle it about a bit to make it scan/make it iambic pentameter. Did the original (in Spanish?) rhyme and scan?

[kleinama9870]

@kurtepearl The original poems weren't written in English, so of course it wouldn't rhyme the way it was translated.

[kurtepearl]

How is this a sonnet? It has fourteen lines. That's it. No rhyme-scheme, no iambic pentameter or any other metrical scheme that is consistent throughout, and the Volta/turn (resolution or at least, change in tone), even if it comes somewhere different to an English or Italian sonnet traditionally, really should be more evident, and certainly should come with one of the line-breaks. This a lovely poem, but it ain't a sonnet. Someone tell me how this poem is a sonnet?

[kamranii]

metafore!!!

[kjasid]

estoy de acuerdo me llena mas en castellano

[mahayoni]

Now that I'm watching again.. I think i recognize the musical theme from the movie "Il Postino" that shows the meeting between Pablo Neruda and a simple man who start to open his soul in the light of this bright spirit...

[mahayoni]

Thank you! wonderful!

[123losvas]

heel mooi johanna