AAAHH time is running out! (3 days left)
Now to analyze the poem, "And the City Now Has Gone"
Pablo Neruda is trying to express the hopelessness and inevitability of his entering into hiding, and then going into exile. His exile almost seems like death to Neruda. He relates this poem to his own life and how he is leaving his "pride" behind.
Main techniques:
Motif of the passing of time being relentless (makes things hopelessly inevitable)
Metaphor of time (being temporary and easily faded) - then progresses to suddenly "taking"
the person
Repetition of the word "no" (emphasis on nothingness and having nothing left)
Questions:
What is the personal pronoun "we" represent? (neruda and his wife?) (everyone in general?)
My presentation:
I'm going to offer a class discussion for sure with both this poem and "To the Foot from Its Child". The powerpoint got too complicated and dicey for my mind. Probably going to do the traditional method using overhead transparencies with those overhead markers. By giving the background info first, I hope that I can prove my point about Neruda's ties with these two works and his political views at that time.
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