I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You by Pablo Neruda | Romantic Poetry Reading
Channel: Poetry For Your Soul
Date: 2024-03-12

Neruda's "Sonnet LXVI" delves into the intense and isolating power of love. Here, forget simple connections – the speaker's love is all-consuming, a paradox of denial and fierce devotion.  He defies traditional comparisons,  revealing a love that burns within him, shaping his very identity.  The rigid structure of the sonnet itself clashes with the speaker's wild emotions, reflecting the turmoil of his love.

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Poem: I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You
Poet: Pablo Neruda

"""Sonnet LXVI"" is part of Neruda's celebrated collection ""Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair."" The poem explores a complex and passionate love. The speaker's feelings are intense and even paradoxical. He denies loving his beloved in conventional ways, but reveals a deeper, all-consuming love that shapes his very being. The sonnet's structure, a traditional form with a twist, reflects the speaker's conflicted emotions."

Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973), born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, was a Chilean poet and diplomat who rose to fame by his teenage years. Though his mother passed away shortly after his birth, Neruda's love for language blossomed early, and he began writing poetry by age 10. He adopted the pen name Pablo Neruda to distance himself from his disapproving father and went on to explore various styles, from surrealism to passionate love poems. His most famous collection, "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" (1924), solidified his reputation as a master wordsmith, leading him to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.

Transcript:

I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.

In this part of the story I am the one who
Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.

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