100 Love Sonnets = Cien Sonetos de Amor
Describe symbolism in 100 Love Sonnets = Cien Sonetos de Amor by Pablo Neruda
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In Dedication X, V, which is a confessional sonnet, Neruda admits that at the beginning of his relationship with Matilde, he did not know "your night, or your air, or the dawn" (1) but instead her earth, with all its sensual delights, invoking vivid imagery of fruit in clusters or wheat in its fields. Here is a clear division between spiritual love, and earth-bound, sexual love. When kissed in this state, Neruda forgets the kisses as they are symbols of spiritual love he has not yet attained.
100 Love Sonnets = Cien Sonetos de Amor