The Body Of A Women:

Does this poem present an interesting view on love or is something else going on here?  Explain your opinion with specific references to the poem

This poem was written beautifully by Pablo Neruda, this poem is very interesting as it expresses a different opinion on love as well of the emotions love involve on a human. Though this poem is called a Body of a women which some may feel it is objectifying women in a sexual way in fact, it is much deeper than that. It is about love itself and the way they make a person feel (there is in fact a secret to the poem about love). In some of the lines in the poem like "I was lone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me, and nigh swamped me with its crushing invasion". This line in particular describes the narrator feelings and how he/she was. The narrator in this case describes himself as lonely presumably saying he was lone like a tunnel before this "women" and love came. Describing his loneliness are birds and then this nigh swamped me, meaning then love came rushing in invading his life. The author then speaks about the way he viewed this love that came to him saying "To survive myself I forged you like a weapon, like an arrow in my bow, a stone in my sling".The author in this case felt the women to be dangerous because of his feelings for her. So he treated the women as a weapon, something dangerous that he had to protect himself from it. Referring to her as an arrow, or stone something that could hurt him if not handled carefully. But he could no longer resist her saying "But the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you". He no longer can hate her admitting he loves her. This poem is full of love for the women and the feelings he cannot resists. So the author isn't simply sexualizing the body of the women but the feelings of love for this person which he describes by talking about her body. The deeper part of this poem is that it is sadly about heartbreak/heartache these feelings cause. The author says "Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst flows and weariness follows, and the infinite ache". He says his feelings and thirst for her love is like a river always following but undeniably bringing him heartache. There you have it the secret to this poem is the heartbreak that follows due to these feelings. Quite sad right?