I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You

Assonance

I do not love you except because I love you;

I go from loving to not loving you,

From waiting to not waiting for you

My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;

I hate you deeply, and hating you

Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you

Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume

My heart with its cruel

Ray, Stealing my key to true calm.

In this part of the story I am the one who

Dies, the only one and I will die of love because I love you,

Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.

"My heart moves from cold to fire"

• Used to compare how his feelings vary from hate to love

Imagery

"Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood."

• This symbolizes his deep and passionate feelings for his beloved.

• The beginning of a new year

"Maybe January light will consume"

"Ray, stealing my key to true calm."

• The ray symbolizes rays from the sun. The sun represents the hope the speaker has that him and his beloved will be together.

Symbolism

Repetition

I do not love you except because I love you;

I go from loving to not loving you,

From waiting to not waiting for you

My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;

I hate you deeply, and hating you

Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you

Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume

My heart with its cruel

Ray, Stealing my key to true calm.

In this part of the story I am the one who

Dies, the only one and I will die of love because I love you,

Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.

• The repetition of the word love emphasizes how deeply and truly he feels about her.

Literary Devices

I love you only because it's you the one I love;

I hate you deeply, and hating you

• Love and hate can coexist although the feelings are thought to be complete opposites

Paradox

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Rhyme Scheme

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Styles of Writing

• Surrealist
• Historical Epics
• Overtly Political Manifestos
• A prose autobiography
• Erotically charged love poems

Other poems

Real Name: Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto

Birthdate: July 12th, 1904

Born in: Parral, Maule Region, Chile

Died on: September 23rd, 1973 (age 69)

Notable Awards:

International Peace Prize (1950)

Nobel Prize in Literature (1971)

• If You Forget Me
• Don't Go Far Off
• Sonnet XVII
• Your Laughter
• ... and many others

Pablo Neruda

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I do not love you except because I love you;

I go from loving to not loving you,

From waiting to not waiting for you

My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;

I hate you deeply, and hating you

Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you

Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume

My heart with its cruel

Ray, Stealing my key to true calm.

In this part of the story I am the one who

Dies, the only one and I will die of love because I love you,

Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.

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About the Poem

Sonnet LXVI

Love

Line 14

Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.

Line 1

Line By Line Analysis

He will love her no matter the circumstances. Whether it be while he is alive and it burns in him like fire or while he is dead because of loving her so much.

I do not love you except because I love you;

There is no reason behind loving someone, it just happens.

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Line 2

I go from loving to not loving you,

There are times where you love the person and then you really don't love them.

Lines 12-13

Line 3

In this part of the story I am the one who

Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,

From waiting to not waiting for you

The speaker is waiting for the person to love them back. The speaker goes from feelings of wanting to wait until they love them back or give up.

He is the one who is suffering a great deal and feels as though he would rather die than to be without the one that he deeply loves. At this point he realizes that there is no hope left for them to be together no matter how much he loves her. He feels as though his love is already been fulfilled and that he will be able to love no one else.

Line 4

My heart moves from cold to fire

There are times where the speaker does not feel anything at all for that person to feeling very passionate about them.

Line 5

Lines 9-11

I love you only because it's you the one I love;

Maybe January light will consume

The person the speaker is talking about does not return his love, so the speaker has no reason behind loving her other than the fact that he does love her.

My heart with its cruel

Ray, stealing my key to true calm.

Lines 6-7

The speaker is thinking that with the winter coming that his feelings will be frozen and dwell on him much like everything surrounding him. The rays (of the sun) represent hope which will not come for him during the harsh winter.

January could be symbolic for the month that she went away or did something to make him feel like there was no hope left for them.

I hate you deeply, and hating you

Bend to you, and measure of my changing love for you

Line 8

The speaker is trying to tell himself that he hates her but in reality his "hate" for her only makes him love her more. He knows that loving her is only causing him pain so he try's to change his feelings towards her.

Is that I do not see you but love you blindly

Changing his feelings towards her means that he must not see her anymore. Although he can not see her he still loves her.

The End

I Do not love you except because i love you

By: Pablo Neruda

Presentation By: Lauren Lubker