Pablo Neruda's deep, passionate love for a woman is expressed in his poem, "If You Forget Me." Using beautiful imagery and metaphors throughout the poem, Neruda immediately catches the reader's attention in the first stanza by stating, "I want you to know one thing"." ... Neruda artfully addresses the emotional conflict of having to let someone go if the love has gone, but also the importance of seizing and cherishing the love if it is there. Pablo Neruda begins to create a calm, serene image in the second stanza. ... "(Chouinard, paragraph 16) Chouinard uses a simile to compare Ne...

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