Sonnet 69

Pablo Neruda-Sonnet 69

Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence,
without you moving, slicing the noon
like a blue flower, without you walking
later through the fog and the cobbles,
without the light you carry in your hand,
golden, which maybe others will not see,
which maybe no one knew was growing
like the red beginnings of a rose.

In short, without your presence: without your coming
suddenly, incitingly, to know my life,
gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind:

since then I am because you are,
since then you are, I am, we are,
and through love I will be, you will be, we'll be.


1. Dramatic Situation- The narrator is the speaker, he is in live, and sees his love interest and himself as one.
2. Structure- Sonnet, 2 quatrains, and 2 triplets
3. Theme- Love for a woman
4. Grammar- Continuos sentences
5. Figure of speech- Appearance "..Without the light you carry in your hand."
6. Diction- Old English
7. Tone- hopeful and love-stricken
8. Literary Techniques- imagery, metaphors, repition