One hundred love sonnets xvii by pablo neruda analysis
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Pablo Neruda's "Love Sonnet XVII" is a modified Italian sonnet focusing on themes of intimacy, love, and self-expression.
The poem was first published in Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets, or Cien Sonetos de Amor, in 1959.
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Like the other poems in that collection, it is dedicated to the poet's wife at the time, Mattilde Urrutia. The poem, and the collection as a whole, were originally written in Spanish. A number of English translations have been published by translators including Stephen Tapscott.
The version discussed in this guide was translated into English by Mark Eisner, a biographer as well as a translator of Neruda.
Written in free verse, "Sonnet XVII" generally dispenses with the rhyme and meter constraints of the most traditional sonnets.
However, its fourteen-line arrangement of two quatrains followed by a sestet is in keeping with the Italian sonnet form. Moreover, like other sonnets, it co