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What does this poem by pablo neruda mean?

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I do not love you except because I love you;

I go from loving to not loving you,

From waiting to not waiting for you

My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;

I hate you deeply, and hating you

Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you

Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume

My heart with its cruel

Ray, stealing my key to true calm.

In this part of the story I am the one who

Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,

Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.

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  1. In the first stanza, he tells of his ambivilance , going from telling her that he loves her, then denying it ; waiting and not waiting; blowing hot and cold, both at the same time. The only conclusion one can make from these lines is that he does not know his own heart.

    He has no reason to love her ; he reiterates that he does, but then avows again that he actually hates her, while all the while he is obsessed, not with her, but with the idea of his loving  which is what he loves. The original egotist !

    He is cruel both to her and himself and this is what deprives him of peace.

    Evidently, she has rejected him and his egotistical idea of love, so now he becomes the martyr, not to love, but to his love of thinking that he is in love.

    Not a particularly memorable poem to my way of thinking.

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