Pablo Neruda’s 20 love poems and a song of despair highlights nature, which was the common focus in his poems to express his moods of love for a woman and the isolation even though he was with her. This scenario can be seen in one of his works named, “Girl Lithe and Tawny”. In each stanza, Neruda critically uses imagery of nature and influential magnificence of nature to express his own heart feelings and gratitude for the woman who was not there, whom he loves.
In this world we can see the beauty of nature in two forms, one is the dark and terrifying side, on the other side it is attractive and lovely. Nature has existed before the commencement of human beings, which had never followed the humanity and will never but it does change the human…show more content… Neruda in this symbolize the woman smile with “the water”, he does so in order to help readers to comprehend the depth of the woman’s beauty in his eyes. In this scenario of stanza, he is comparing woman’s smile in context with water, which is broad, deep and powerful. As water is one the essential part of the human body, which supports extent love of Neruda for his love, in the fact that her smile plays a significant role in Neruda’s life just as water do. Water can be destructible in many different ways, which can bring pain and agony to human kind. He is comparing “girl” of the poem and her smile by exposing both the aspects of water as: the beauty and depth of her smile that he loves, but parallel to it he denotes the vast desolation and pain it brings to…show more content… Neruda took support from the objects of nature that is cherry and bright, and makes it dark and mysterious. As a sun usually apparent to be pleasing and warm, which Neruda uses to symbolize the beauty of her love “black mane”. At the very instant, however, the girl holds the sun and made it black as blackest, a color of darkness and death. By using such a depressed color, black, for an object so glowing as the sun helps Neruda expressing the ostensibly opposing feelings as joy and sadness for his lover. The sun is unanimously powerful source of this universe for human beings which help Neruda signify the complexity of his affection towards her and her beauty. He thinks, she is skilled, through her beauty (in this case, it’s her black hair), which pulls him towards her love and bringing him back to his old life. Parallel to that she is equally that strong that she can destroy his life and can bring him the taste of pain and