Ode To Enchanted Light By Pablo Neruda Analysis

The Beauty in Nature A while back, maybe a year or so, I got the opportunity to go to outdoor science camp with my classmates. During my stay, I got to soak in the aspects of nature, like the running creek and fresh fallen snow, which made me develop an appreciation for nature. In Pablo Neruda’s poem, “Ode to enchanted light,” the speaker describes the beauty in nature, life, and light. In “Sleeping in the Forest,” a poem by Mary Oliver, nature is thought of as a place that’s shrouded in a mystical beauty and contentment. In both poems, the poets both use figurative language to express their appreciation for nature. However, they have different writings styles, for Oliver’s poem is one big stanza whilst Neruda’s poem consists of more, yet

However, the poems differ in that they have different formats. To state an example of their similarities in that they both use figurative language, in lines 13-15 of Neruda’s poem, he uses a metaphor to validate his appreciation for the endless beauty of nature: “The world is a glass overflowing with water.” To state an example from Oliver’s poem, in lines 17-18, the speaker states that she had “vanished at least a dozen times into something better.” In the lines of Neruda’s poem, the glass symbolizes the world and the water is the beauty. Furthermore, the word “overflowing” suggests that the world is filled with an endless beauty. In the lines of Oliver’s poem, she escaped all of her problems through what nature offered her, and from that, she descended into a fantasy which was better than her reality, for the words “something better” suggests that it was much better than her reality. Even though they both use figurative language, they have fairly different writing forms. For example, Neruda’s poem consists of three short stanzas whilst Oliver’s poem, on the other hand, is essentially one giant stanza. I think Neruda does this to shift the topic and senses to something else, for each stanza focuses on a different sense; contrary to Oliver who makes her poem into one large stanza to maintain our focus on her topic. She doesn’t shift her focus at all whilst recalling a time she slept in the forest. Overall, both poems are similar in that they both use figurative language; however, they differ in that they have different