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    Rolando A. Carbonell: You Alone

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    This poem expresses the deep love and devotion the speaker feels for their beloved. It describes how only the beloved can teach the speaker about love and touch their soul through their smile and song. The speaker says their beloved awakens them from darkness and brings joy and beauty to their life. Without the beloved, the speaker says memory and life itself would lose meaning. The poem expresses that only the beloved can transform the speaker's life and make them feel alive through love.

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    Rolando A. Carbonell: You Alone

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    This poem expresses the deep love and devotion the speaker feels for their beloved. It describes how only the beloved can teach the speaker about love and touch their soul through their smile and song. The speaker says their beloved awakens them from darkness and brings joy and beauty to their life. Without the beloved, the speaker says memory and life itself would lose meaning. The poem expresses that only the beloved can transform the speaker's life and make them feel alive through love.

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    This poem expresses the deep love and devotion the speaker feels for their beloved. It describes how only the beloved can teach the speaker about love and touch their soul through their smile and song. The speaker says their beloved awakens them from darkness and brings joy and beauty to their life. Without the beloved, the speaker says memory and life itself would lose meaning. The poem expresses that only the beloved can transform the speaker's life and make them feel alive through love.

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    623 views3 pages

    Rolando A. Carbonell: You Alone

    Uploaded by

    Queenie Carale
    This poem expresses the deep love and devotion the speaker feels for their beloved. It describes how only the beloved can teach the speaker about love and touch their soul through their smile and song. The speaker says their beloved awakens them from darkness and brings joy and beauty to their life. Without the beloved, the speaker says memory and life itself would lose meaning. The poem expresses that only the beloved can transform the speaker's life and make them feel alive through love.

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    YOU ALONE

    Rolando A. Carbonell

    YOU alone, beloved, can teach me to measure the memory of a song… No one
    knows to what ecstasy my heart will soar. The gentleness in your smile is enough to touch
    the tenderness in my heart. In the secret page of my life is written a story… never to be
    forgotten.

    * * *

    Come, then, beloved and sing with me the songs so sweet. Burn my soul with the
    magic jewel of your song that I may awaken from the darkness of this world to view the
    blossoming of the stars. And is there any greater than love? Speak them beloved, speak.
    Give to me the essence of your love, and the slumbering poems in this dark universe will
    blazon anew; swelling like waves upon the bosom of a hungry shore.

    * * *
    Because you and I shall sing, heaven itself will quiver with a burst of song. And the
    morning will greet us with a glow to open the flowering a new tune. No one else but you
    can still the throbbing, sobbing, murmuring voice within. No one. For you alone, can reach
    the silent stretches of my soul. You alone…
    Without you, beloved, what joy will there be in a sing? Without the embraces of your love
    – what use is the beauty of the morn? Without the promise of your kiss, what delight is
    there in the fragrance of a rose? Without you, my love, memory itself will lose the beauty
    of its touch…

    * * *

    come then, my dear


    like a flower,
    like a song,
    like a dream …
    And I shall write the forgotten poems of many days you secretly left in my soil. In every
    line I shall scribble the many thoughts this soaring minds holds envelope the memory of
    your youth scattered by the winds.

    * * *

    You alone can make a miracle out of song …


    You alone can transform this poem into a prayer …
    You alone can make me feel the breath of life again.
    Name: ___________________________________________ Score: _______________
    Course: ________________________________ Professor: ______________________

    I. Testing One’s Word Power


    Substitute a synonym for the italicized words in each sentence. Write the answer
    on the space provided.
    1
    _____________ a. No one knows to what ecstasy my heart will soar.
    1
    2
    _____________ b. Burn my soul with the magic jewel of your song …
    2
    3
    _____________ c. … that I may awaken from the darkness of this world to view
    3
    4
    _____________ the blossoming of the stars.
    4
    5
    _____________ d. Give me the essence of your love,
    5
    6
    _____________ and the slumbering poems in this dark
    6
    7 8 9
    _____________ universe will blazen anew swelling
    7
    _____________
    8
    _____________
    9
    10
    _____________ like the waves upon the bosom of hungry shore
    10
    11 12
    _____________e. …heaven itself will quiver with a burst of song.
    11
    _____________
    12
    13
    _____________ f. For you alone can reach the silent stretches of my soul.
    13
    14
    _____________ g. In every line I shall scribble the many thoughts this soaring mind holds.
    14
    15
    _____________ h. And the music in my heart shall spread its wings to envelop the
    15 memory of our youth …

    II. Checking One’s Understanding

    Answer the following questions.

    1. What is the prose poem? How it is different in form or structure from versified
    poetry?
    2. Why does the poet call his poem a song and a prayer?
    3. What figures of speech are used by the poet? What images do you find?
    4. Do you think that the exultant and joyous cadence of the poem describes the
    feelings of a lover for his beloved? Why or why not?
    5. What line struck you most? Why?

    III. Enrichment Activity


    Write a parody of the poem and read it with correct pausing, phrasing,
    pronunciation and feelings.

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