Pablo Neruda(1904-1973), a wonderful poet from Chile, wrote a book called The Book of Questions in which he asked many strange and perplexing, often unanswerable questions. Read them, and then either respond with what you think of these questions or leave your own imponderable question:
Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress?
Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?
Who hears the regrets of the thieving automobile?
Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?
Why don't the immense airplanes fly around with their children?
Which yellow bird fills its nest with lemons?
Why don't they train helicoptors to suck honey from the sunlight?
Where did the full moon leave its sack of flour tonight?
If I have died and don't know it of whom do I ask the time?
23 comments:
Well, these questions sound a little bit weird to me even though I might see the "romantic" message in them. Reflecting more on them I would say that they all make sense in a certain way, but one couldn't definetely provide realistic answers. I guess, they're kind of funny and entertaining because taking them literally might lead to a kind of daydreaming. I think he asked them to show his reader another reality or another point of view of how our reality could actually look like. I hope that makes sense...
wow...dang it jasmine your always first!
But I finished my writing lab first hahah…and got one or two blogs first…
Anyways
huh!?!? I don’t understand one question he stated…good stuff but boggles my mind!!!
i wonder how many confusing answers will come from this blog!?!?
ok questions are definitly weird...i dont understand their meaning...they are confused....but heres my questions!!!...
How can we define real????...How can we know the difference between the real world and the dream world????
These are the type of questions hat get your brain thinking!!!!
Like Jasmin said there really isnt a realistic answer to any of them. They are very interesting though, I have never read anything like them.
Cristal R.
I actually really like these questions. Although some I don't understnad at all. They do get a person thinking, and then thinking that there is not a real answer. Some of them are a little funny but they all make you focus on some kind of detail. The questions spark an idea that lets your mind just go off and imagine. And for me I love ideas that get you to imagine because it is not something I do without an influence.
Candice
These questions are the kind that you really don't know exactly what the correct answer is. It goes a little deeper than just your basic yes or no question. It is kind of weird like with the question, "If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" These are confusing questions that do get you into that type of thinking mode.
These questions give me a headache. Like Jasmin says, there really isn't one realistic answer to them. They are just a bunch of random thoughts in a question. They are definitely challenging questions that get you thinking!
these questions definitely are not ordinary, but they make you think outside of the box. i think that these questions are very unique and creative.
I believe the questions are made in order to get you thinking about random things, as well as keep you open-minded.
Does the Galaxy ever end or does it really keep on going for ever????????
I think these questions are made to get you thinking at a deeper level. Although the questions a lot of the times are unanswerable they get you thinking of many of the possibilities of the true meaning.
Actually I don't think those questions make sense. If anybody ask you this kind of question in the reality, you probably will think either he or she is studpid or crazy. But I understand that anything that has its own reason, you don't know the answer doesn't mean there is no an answer, right?
I have some questions and so far nobody can give me satisfied answers yet. Maybe the following questions are not really related to Pablo Neruda's. I am not challenging people's religion belief, I just want to know if someone can answer.
1. If the Lord is the only God in the world, why his appearance is a white man instead of black, woman, asian, indian.....
2. Where is the heaven? Has anyone seen the heaven yet? I didn't mean after you die. When the astronauts piloted their craft to the universal, where they can find the heaven?
3. Do you think a biologist who studies the organic evolution will believe that God create the world? Isn't it a conflict between the science and religion?
4. While we sit in front of the dinner table and thank God for everything that he blessed us, why we still need work to make money to buy the meal? I mean actually God can't give us any free meal if we don't work. Then why we should thank him instead of thanking ourselves?
These questions just seem like complete nonsense to me. But I don't think the authors intent was to find an answer but more to get his readers thinking.
What if an author sold books without a plot or storyline, or even characters?
Can you write an intelligible book from a stream of consciousness style that seems at the least a bit addled and at the most quite drug induced? (Can you say Edgar Allen Poe on methadone?)
If a book is simply "ear tickling", even if it is nonsensical, can it have value if for nothing else that it makes you think a bit differently for a few minutes?
OR
Does the author, the writing "emperor", actually have no clothes and is everyone afraid to call his bluff and shout "THIS DOES NOT MAKE SENSE AND IS A BUNCH OF HOOEEY"! Are you afraid?
I like how the questions evoke imagery especially imagery that I've never thought of before. These questions are unique to Neruda and no one can emulate them because they are his thoughts alone. He is totally original. They show how creative his mind was. I like his question: why do trees conceal the splender of their roots and the one about the yellow bird with the lemons.
I have noticed there is never a correct answer to a question. Even though these questions are worded akwardly, there will still be two parts to a question/answer. There is always a left or right way to go....opinions possibly.
These questions are weird and random but I have my own
Adam and Eve were the first family so how did their son cain get married after he was banished?
I actually like questions like these because they are so weird and random, and they get me thinking out side of my box. this is my question...
Why Can't chickens fly they have wings too?
“A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.” - this is one of Pablo Neruda quotes. I'm still playing and hope I will never stop!
umm yeah.. perty random thoughts.
Why are sun spots black?
Whats at the very edge of the last star in space?
wow talk about HEADACHE! However, there isn't anything wrong with thinking, right?
haha
hmmm i had to get that thinking cap on!
These questions are really strange and interesting. It makes you think in a different perspective. In my opinion Pablo Neruda was a really interesting poet. Heres some of my questions.
Can money buy happiness?
What does success mean to you?
"Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?"
My answer to this question is that its sadder to see someone waiting for the train standing in the rain than just a train.
....just a thought
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