{"id":803,"date":"2013-03-20T01:35:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T01:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.ups.edu\/admission\/?p=803"},"modified":"2013-03-20T01:35:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T01:35:23","slug":"english-major-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/2013\/03\/20\/english-major-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"English Major Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just thought I’d share a poem we looked at in my Intro to English Studies class. It’s by Pablo Neruda. It is an ode to salt, as the title, Ode to Salt<\/em>, tells us, but shows it in a different light than we would think. It’s very lovely and interesting, so enjoy!<\/p>\n

Ode to Salt by Pablo Neruda<\/strong><\/p>\n

This salt
\nin the salt cellar
\nI once saw in the salt mines.
\nI know
\nyou won’t
\nbelieve me
\nbut
\nit sings
\nsalt sings, the skin
\nof the salt mines
\nsings
\nwith a mouth smothered
\nby the earth.
\nI shivered in those
\nsolitudes
\nwhen I heard
\nthe voice
\nof
\nthe salt
\nin the desert.
\nNear Antofagasta
\nthe nitrous
\npampa
\nresounds:
\na
\nbroken
\nv oice,
\na mournful
\nsong.<\/p>\n

In its caves
\nthe salt moans, mountain
\nof buried light,
\ntranslucent cathedral,
\ncrystal of the sea, oblivion
\nof the waves.
\nAnd then on every table
\nin the world,
\nsalt,
\nwe see your piquant
\npowder
\nsprinkling
\nvital light
\nupon
\nour food.
\nPreserver
\nof the ancient
\nholds of ships,
\ndiscoverer
\non
\nthe high seas,
\nearliest
\nsailor
\nof the unknown, shifting
\nbyways of the foam.
\nDust of the sea, in you
\nthe tongue receives a kiss
\nfrom ocean night:
\ntaste imparts to every seasoned
\ndish your ocean essence;
\nthe smallest,
\nminiature
\nwave from the saltcellar
\nreveals to us
\nmore than domestic whiteness;
\nin it, we taste finitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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