if anyone knows the meaning of this poem it will help me so much to understand its meaning. the connotations used. what each line means. please help. the poem goes like this:
Already you are mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.
Love ,pain, work must sleep now.
Night sins on its invisible wheels
and next to me you are pure as amber asleep.

No one else, my love, will sleep with my drems.
you will go, we will go together through the waters of time.
No one else will journey through the shadow with me.
Only you, always in flower, always sun, always moon.

Already your hands have opened your delicate fits
and let fall soft, aimless signs,
your eyes closed like two gray wings.

While I follow the water you carry and carries me:
The night, the workld, the wind wind up their destiny,
and without you I am nothing but your dream.

Please if anyone can help that will be great. Is for my english class thanks:
Yasiris

Sorry I can't help on the meaning.....there are a few typos, I imagine it was the night spins instead of sins.....but I love the imagery of delicate fits....

Here's another version, hopefully there are no typos:

Sonnet LXXXI
---Pablo Neruda

Already, you are mine. Rest with your dream inside my dream.
Love, grief, labour, must sleep now.
Night revolves on invisible wheels
and joined to me you are pure as sleeping amber.

No one else will sleep with my dream, love.
You will go we will go joined by the waters of time.
No other one will travel the shadows with me,
only you, eternal nature, eternal sun, eternal moon.

Already your hands have opened their delicate fists
and let fall, without direction, their gentle signs,
your eyes enclosing themselves like two grey wings,

while I follow the waters you bring that take me onwards:
night, earth, winds weave their fate, and already,
not only am I not without you, I alone am your dream.


Les



Post Edited (11-22-04 00:32)