Leaning into the Afternoons

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"Leaning into the Afternoons" is a lyrical love poem by Pablo Neruda, included in his influential collection *Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair*, that evokes longing, memory, and the melancholy of lost love.

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instanceOf love poem ⓘ
poem ⓘ
author Pablo Neruda ⓘ
centralEmotion despair ⓘ
nostalgia ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Chile ⓘ
creator Pablo Neruda ⓘ
firstPublishedIn Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada ⓘ
focusesOn irretrievability of past love ⓘ
memory of a past lover ⓘ
form free verse ⓘ
genre lyric poetry ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn Latin American love poetry ⓘ
translations of Spanish love poetry into English ⓘ
hasSubject emotional loss ⓘ
remembrance ⓘ
romantic relationship ⓘ
imagery silence ⓘ
sky ⓘ
stars ⓘ
includedInCollection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair ⓘ
language Spanish ⓘ
literaryMovement 20th-century Latin American poetry ⓘ
literaryStyle modernist-influenced ⓘ
romantic ⓘ
narrativePerspective first person ⓘ
notableFor evocation of nocturnal sadness ⓘ
expression of youthful heartbreak ⓘ
imagery of night and stars ⓘ
intense emotional introspection ⓘ
originalTitle Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche ⓘ
pairedWith A Song of Despair (within the collection’s structure) ⓘ
linked to: A Song of Despair
partOf Neruda’s early love poetry ⓘ
partOfSeries Twenty Love Poems ⓘ
publicationYear 1924 ⓘ
setting night ⓘ
theme longing ⓘ
lost love ⓘ
love ⓘ
melancholy ⓘ
memory ⓘ
tone contemplative ⓘ
intimate ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ
translatedInto English ⓘ
multiple languages ⓘ

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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair → hasPoem → Leaning into the Afternoons ⓘ