Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?

Pablo Neruda
Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what?...
Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what?...
Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what?...
Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what?...
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“Where were you then?” is a question that may never have been answered. The phrase, “Who else was there?” has no answer either. Saying what? I don’t know, why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away? The poet doesn't know what he means by these phrases, but he wants to tell us. He wants to show us how important these questions are. He wants to tell us that the world is not the place it once was, that life is not as it once was, that love is being taken from us, that we are losing it all.

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