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Analysis of Don’t Go Far Off by Pablo Neruda | Poem Summary and Analysis - literatureguider.blogspot.com


Don't go far off : The dependency of love

Don’t Go Far Off is a beautiful poem written by Ricardo Elice Neftali Reyes Basoalto, also known as Pablo Neruda.

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Don’t Go Far Off by Pablo Neruda | Summary and Analysis

Don’t Go Far Off, is all about love, which was originally written in Spanish, Pablo Neruda illustrates his message that love can take over and control life as he expresses his emotions and thoughts of misery and depression, from this act of sorrow and anguish, Neruda uses the rest of stanza to compare himself to common objects and scenes. In this case, he is in a empty station where there are no trains and the world around him is “asleep”. However, the theme and message reaches its peak in the final line, during the aftermath of the Neruda’s separation, when there is no “happily ever after.” There is no resolution to the desperation and misery that is the tone of the poem.


Analysis

Dont go far off is about the speaker being hopelessly in love 💖with someone.  He spends every minute alone awaiting her return, which helps show the dependency developed by love.  It also shows one more thing, the fear that also comes with it.  The fear of disappointment.  The fear of left alone.  The fear of being dumped yet still unable to hate the other.
"because in that moment you’ll have gone so far
I’ll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?"
This last stanza perfectly portrays the dependency and the fear brought on by love.  He accepts a fate where he would be completely lost without the presence of another.

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Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.
Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.
Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,

because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;

because in that moment you'll have gone so far
I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?

Pablo Neruda




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