Pablo Neruda

In My Sky at Twilight

In My Sky at Twilight - meaning Summary

Twilight Possession and Longing

The poem expresses an intimate speaker's possession and longing for a beloved at twilight. The beloved is imagined as a cloud, a huntress, and the shore where the speaker's soul is born; sensory images link sight, music, and taste to intense desire. Repeated claims of "you are mine" and metaphors of nets and plunder convey both admiration and a yearning to possess, while twilight and mourning tones underline vulnerability and solitude.

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In my sky at twilight you are like a cloud and your form and colour are the way I love them. You are mine, mine, woman with sweet lips and in your life my infinite dreams live. The lamp of my soul dyes your feet, the sour wine is sweeter on your lips, oh reaper of my evening song, how solitary dreams believe you to be mine! You are mine, mine, I go shouting it to the afternoon's wind, and the wind hauls on my widowed voice. Huntress of the depth of my eyes, your plunder stills your nocturnal regard as though it were water. You are taken in the net of my music, my love, and my nets of music are wide as the sky. My soul is born on the shore of your eyes of mourning. In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begin.

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