What are examples of comparisons in “Oda al Tomate” by Pablo Neruda?
Things are compared to the tomatoes and the tomatoes are compared with things. Neruda uses description to draw parallels between things adding the characteristic of the unlike thing to the familiar. Here are some examples: summer light = tomato then the light runs through the streets as juice, so summer = tomato. The tomato survives the summer and becomes an army invading the kitchen. It takes its ease like a person or a cat in the kitchen then the tomato becomes a light source like the sun. It becomes a murder victim and its flesh becomes a cool sun. It becomes a bride or a groom when married to an onion. But the overall comparison of the poem as a whole seems to be to the tomato as star, light giver, like sun.
