Pablo Neruda and his poem ‘I am afraid’
The poem "I am afraid" by Pablo Neruda published in 1958 is a poem that integrates his book "Extravagarío". Throughout the context of his book he deals with more realistic issues with desperate approaches and pain;as well as policy topics related to falling in love, because when entering a new relationship with Matilde Urrutia the author is pointed out on issues for a more mature relationship. As it evokes in one of his comments, he promulgates that “in my way of like, it is a morrocudo book, with that salt flavor that has the truth’.
The poem focuses mainly on the anguish of the lyrical speaker about something, which is not specified at all, but it can be inferred on a subjective fear, the death of something, either of his love or the loss of his beloved, this iscan shine because your most poems focus on this type of topics. Starting from the title, it makes known about a very impulsive fear by the writer. The argument on which the verses are based is the despair and anguish of the lyrical speaker, with an essence of pain about something especially. This describes your feelings present at the time relating them to natural means of your environment. For this reason, throughout the poem it can be evidenced that the author resorts to the need to be accurate in his feelings. This is described imperatively, since the poem emphasizes a precise description of the sensations of despair and fear of the author as well as emotions of sadness focusing on a disconsolate environment.
I am afraid is composed of 20 verses. Pablo Neruda being a representation of the avant -garde of the twentieth century (pure poetry), in his poetry breaks with the rules of metric, although in this poem it is not highlighted due to the precision both in metric and rhyme that he possesses. Its verses are of major art, being its regular metric, since all its verses are Alejandrino (14 metric syllables), which for it was carried out the use of metric licenses such as the Sinalefa and Dialefa, as well as other resources such asCesura to match the same. The rhythm is not marked in the same way in all verses, oscillating between 6, 10 and 13 that give it harmony, musicality and internal sound to the same. The poem is structured with five stanzas, each one deals with certain very intrinsically related ideas that help mark the issue of poetry. The distribution of this poem by the author helps to a better development of ideas by emotionally. The poem is of classic verse, since the rules of metric and rhymes are governed, it has a very marked rhyme, being an alternate consonant rhyme, it also highlights the use of phoneme A, E and S in several verses. Also, certain entries in verses 1, 3.11 and 17. Thus the poem is divided into two parts or sections that deal with ideas related to the subject. The level of language used is simple, that is to say a cultured language, since its expressiveness of word gives beauty to the entire poem. At the same time the function of language is expressive and completely poetic, since the author expresses what he feels inside, all his feelings through various linguistic resources. The use of pauses in the poem clarifies the ideas, appearing internal pauses produced by commas, as well as version pauses. These provide a greater vision of the semantic field that the author who is of anguish, pain and in itself of fear is handled because the lyrical speaker transmits a feeling of danger of something real or imaginary that does not describe it concretely, in the same way he managesadjectives such as tired, forgotten and nouns such as gray, black, sadness, death among others that give a dark atmosphere.
The poem as mentioned is divided into five stanzas that are articulated into two sections. The first is formed by three stanzas (verse 1 to verse 12), in which the author begins with his feeling of fear that is handled throughout the poem, so also describes his sentimental situation whose intention is to publicize the fear of athing, considering that it is to lose something, and that it frequently relates it to nature, the stars, the sky, among others. In this part, the poet expresses his feelings of fear, but that relates it more subjectively about a reality, he also feels frustrated in establishing the reason for his fear through a series of rhetorical resources. First a personification and comparison are identified, v.1 and 2 “I’m afraid. The afternoon is gray and the sadness of heaven opens like a dead mouth.”Here the author attributes a human sense to heaven, sadness becomes a symbol in which the sunset establishes its appearance full of gray clouds that clear the sky and preparing the night, slowly opening like the mouth of a dead dead. The author describes his atmosphere with the largest caught that he has. A metaphor, v. 3, “My heart has a forgotten princess cry at the bottom of a desert palace.”The lyrical speaker denotes that his heart feels too sad and wishes. A comparison in the V. 7 and 8 “(In my sick head a dream is not fit as a star has not fit in heaven.) ". He describes that he does not have such a great and beautiful illusion comparing it with the stars in the sky, because these beautiful stars do not appear anywhere and much less these dreams in their mind, it establishes an afternoon and sad night desolate as their heart is. Finally in this part there is an alliteration, v. 10, "And there is a cry in my mouth that my mouth is not shouted," the repetition of mouth and shout sounds establish a sense of despair and fear of the author by having something to announce with all his mdo it. I consider here the only appearance of a sense of more explicit fear that is related to the title. In all this context Neruda plasma his feelings related to nature and describes it so realistic with an implicit meaning of the expression “I am afraid."
Now in the second part between the fourth and fifth stanza, attaching a last loose verse (verses 13 to 20) the author now transmits his sensations based on nature, the stars and planets and does not attach the "I". Assuming that he is the whole universe and each part of this corresponds to a part of him. In the same way their feelings are reflected whose objective is to make known a fear of being in solitude, but that considers it a very cruel reality that can happen. In the same way it is expressed with the following literary figures: comparison, v. 15, “Saturn agonizes as a grief."In this, the author refers to a planet that has no life, is sad and desolate and compares it with a penalty that is dying, a sense of life that is gradually dying. Next, an image, v. 16, “Earth is a black fruit that heaven bites.”Here the writer refers to the space that is consuming to an already lost and lifeless land, relating it to his life, disappointment ends with such a finite sadness. Finally a comparison in V. 17-18, “And for the vastness of the void the afternoon clouds are blind, as lost boats that hid broken stars in their wineries.". Neruda compares the gray clouds in the sky with the boats in the ocean, you are clearing a place addressing different spaces without a sense of guidance and relates to a disoriented person who has no sense of life, the wineries with broken stars doallusion to hope already lost. The impact is really moving because the reality of an immeasurable fear of losing something so important can lead to a disorientation and total solitude of the individual.
This is why I consider that "I am afraid" is a very realistic, moving and undoubtedly an excellent poem. The poem itself emphasizes a primary point, fear whose meaning is implicitly hidden. Starting from the title, although there is no detailed explanation of fear after a correct and detained reading, it is possible to establish that the verses are of great impact that a sense in common loneliness and anguish, the doubt and hope relating them to relating them to them by relating them toNatural media. The reading of the poem has achieved in the reader, in this case in me, which immerses me in an imaginative world where the use of various grammatical styles and literary resources contributed to their understanding about its emotionality, leading to a reflection of whatWhat can happen if at any time someone or something that is important in our lives is lost.
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