You know you can’t live without love. It’s true right?

If you don’t agree with that then

you don’t have a heart. Reading one of the piece of Pablo Neruda his poem entitled the “The
Fickle one” I thought first it was about admiration or affection to someone else. But a word
captured my eyes it is from the book I have in my room, it is all about “fidelity”. Then I read the
poem again and understand what a man was trying to tell. So, with the help of one of my book
collection from my room I can say that the poem I was reading is not only telling about
admiration or affection it is all about fidelity.

When we speak about fidelity especially on relationship, because the poem tells us about
a man’s admiration so there is love behind it. Fidelity in relationship it is one of the most stressed
aspects of a relationships. Fidelity or loyalty boils down to the same thing, you both have agreed
that your partner has your love, affection and commitment over other potential partners. Fidelity
can be a complicated thing though, especially if one partner considers a certain act to be
cheating, while the other partner doesn’t see the big deal.

The fickle one by Pablo Neruda shows the man who is in a relationship has an affection
to the other women. We can see that on the first to the fourth stanza of the poem. The first line of
the first stanza it says “My eyes went away from me” and this line makes me laugh, though it
was an expression but for me it is an overreaction of a man. The man shows he desires all the
females that pass by him. He gazes longingly at each woman while absorbing all their physical
details, corroborating the notion that the only qualities that draw him to random women are
tangible attributes. Another line from the poem is "dark girl" and a "pale blonde," relaying not
only an affinity for one type of female, but an equal attraction to all women, from one end of the
spectrum to the other. To my surprised while reading the poem the fourth stanza was its burning
metaphoric expressions. Instead of merely touching the "pale" girl’s breast, "the heat of his
passion, his "lightning bolts of blood," upon her like a round of bullets. Both of these metaphors
represent his sexual fantasies with women other than the one with whom he sustains a real
relationship, solidifying the reader’s initial bad impression.

Neruda also employs these fierce descriptions when developing the paradox that contrasts
the first and second women while simultaneously generating an opposition to the third woman.
This functions as an initial sign of the persona’s tenderness. For instance, in the first half of the
work, "blood" has a negative connotation while in the latter section of the poem, "blood" is
positive and tender, suggesting love and life. The persona acknowledges his soul mate as his
reason for being and the force that sustains him spiritually and physically. Similarly, the author
uses contrasting diction again to liken the fair girl to a "golden plant," fertile and valuable,
however, his lover is "made of all the gold" in the world. With the fair women he uses "gold" as
an adjective, perhaps in reference to color, but unmistakably, with the second woman, he is
commenting on her significance and worth. She is priceless, for a value cannot be attached to
something as rare as the love he finds in her.

Though a variety of women captivate the persona, Neruda illuminates the spontaneous
and temporal nature of the persona’s emotions regarding the common women with the repeated
lines, "After them all I go". All the words in the stanza are simple, yet purposely contrived. The
triteness of the individual words reflects the persona’s perception of all the women with whom
he is infatuated. He repeats the monotonous five words twice, attesting to his passivity and the
generic way he considers these females in contrast to the actual woman he loves. Though he may
find numerous women sexually appealing, they are all equivalent, trivial compared to the beauty
of his soul mate.

Perhaps the most powerful moment in the work, it reveals the persona’s sincerity through
emphasis on "made," indicating a shift from lust to love. He makes it apparent that the emotional
intimacy that the persona finds in his relationship with the third woman is absent when dealing
with other females. His lover, unlike the others, is not only a symbol of sexuality, rather, she
represents trust and enduring companionship.