This sonnet describes how before falling in love, the speaker felt disconnected from the world, which seemed empty, abandoned, and decayed. Nothing had meaning or purpose. However, once the speaker fell in love, their lover's beauty and poverty filled their world with gifts, giving significance and ownership to objects and experiences for the first time.
This sonnet describes how before falling in love, the speaker felt disconnected from the world, which seemed empty, abandoned, and decayed. Nothing had meaning or purpose. However, once the speaker fell in love, their lover's beauty and poverty filled their world with gifts, giving significance and ownership to objects and experiences for the first time.
This sonnet describes how before falling in love, the speaker felt disconnected from the world, which seemed empty, abandoned, and decayed. Nothing had meaning or purpose. However, once the speaker fell in love, their lover's beauty and poverty filled their world with gifts, giving significance and ownership to objects and experiences for the first time.
I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The world was made of air, which waited. I knew rooms full of ashes, Tunnels where the moon lived, Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost', Questions that insisted in the sand. Everything was empty, dead, mute, Fallen abandoned, and decayed: Inconceivably alien, it all Belonged to someone else - to no one: Till your beauty and your poverty Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts. Pablo Neruda
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