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Why does Pablo Neruda fill Sonnet 17 with images of darkness and shadow?
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Because it's a poem about a love that cannot be exposed to the broad light of day.
It begins with a conditional negative statement, "I do not love you as if..." explaining how the love is unlike any bright flashy thing that sparkles when interacting with the light, that is exposed for anyone to wonder at and admire. (This recalls Shakespeare's Sonnet "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun...")
Over the next 9 lines of the sonnet Neruda lists ways in which his love is dark, internalised, compressed, earthy,natural, always imminent but never manifest, private and unique.
in Chinese philosophy Yin and Yang are 2 complementary principles. Yang is positive bright and masculine - like the love described in the first 2 lines of the sonnet - Yin is negative, dark and feminine. The interaction of Yin and Yang is thought to maintain the harmony of the universe. Neruda loves the Yin quality of his beloved because it provides a balance that allows him to achieve harmony and wholeness.
This is signalled in the last 2 lines where the speaker and his beloved merge as one inseparable being.
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