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Ode to Tomatoes 🍅

Ode to Tomatoes is a beautiful poem written by spanish poet Pablo Neruda, with this the poet wants that everyone should learn to embrace the usual things in life that are often seen as dull, and find the beauty within them.

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Ode to Tomatoes Summary 

Ode to Tomatoes Analysis

Summary 

The cultivation of tomato has turned out to be fruitful and thus the streets are full with vegetable vendors selling tomato and the tomato juice. Then it's December afternoon where now tomatoes are being used for cooking the dishes in the kitchen where it is sliced and added with onions, olives, potatoes with pepper and salt. Then the tomato dishes are being served at the various occasions like wedding day. Then tomato is shown as a perfect fruit which showers only goodness to others.

Analysis

In Ode to Tomatoes, Neruda emphasize on the art for glorifying the most common he takes things that we might view as commonplace and describes how extraordinary they can be. The title of this poem is "Ode to Tomatoes" which is a dedication to the under appreciated but beautiful things throughout life. The theme of this poem is that you must learn to embrace the usual things in life that are often seen as dull, and find the beauty within them.

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