LXXXI - XC Summary

LXXXI: Neruda urges Matilde to enter with him into sleep and dreams, and to put love and pain and work aside. In dreams they may be alone.

LXXXII: In darkness and in dreams, individual identities seem to merge as one with the shadows, becoming indistinguishable, so that the lovers become one.

LXXXIII: Neruda admires Matilde in deep sleep, her conscious self having abandoned her body. When she awakes Matilde will be a new person, but will have left something behind in the dream world.

LXXXIV: Neruda describes the process of Matilde and he preparing for sleep. Day eventually surrenders to night, only the moon shines, time seems to slow, then all is enveloped in darkness.

LXXXV: Autumn has come, and with it fog, dampness, and the changing of leaves. Matilde's body, in this cold change of seasons, provides a...