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100 Love Sonnets
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100 Love Sonnets is Pablo Neruda's 1959 cycle of love poems written for his wife, Matilde Urrutia. Earthy and tender rather than ornate, the sonnets praise an ordinary, daily love, of bread and hands and shared light, with a sensuous gratitude that made Neruda the great modern poet of love. Sonnet XVII, with its love of secret things, is among the most quoted poems in any language.
About the author — Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda (1904 to 1973) was a Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, one of the most widely read poets of the twentieth century. He wrote across many modes, but his love poems made him beloved far beyond the Spanish-speaking world.
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What is 100 Love Sonnets?
A cycle of one hundred sonnets Neruda wrote for his wife Matilde, celebrating a real, daily love in warm, sensuous language rather than abstract idealization.
What is the most famous of the sonnets?
Sonnet XVII, which begins by saying he loves not as if she were a rose or topaz, but secretly, between the shadow and the soul, one of the most quoted love poems ever written.
Are the poems romantic or sad?
Mostly joyful and grateful, though shaded by an awareness of mortality. Their power is in finding the eternal inside the ordinary intimacy of two lives.