Who Ever Desired Each Other as We Do
Who Ever Desired Each Other as We Do - meaning Summary
Love as Regenerative Fire
Neruda presents a passionate, regenerative vision of romantic desire. The speakers invoke "ancient ashes of hearts" and imagery of a burned fruit to suggest past loves and loss. Through kisses and mutual devotion they aim to revive what was consumed, transforming decay into a new, fragile life. The poem frames lovers as both the continuing light and a seed—temporary yet sustaining an ongoing cycle of desire and rebirth.
Read Complete AnalysesWho ever desired each other as we do? Let us look for the ancient ashes of hearts that burned, and let our kisses touch there, one by one, till the flower, disembodied, rises again. Let us love that Desire that consumed its own fruit and went down, aspect and power, into the earth: We are its continuing light, its indestructible, fragile seed
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