Full name: Maruja Vargas de Mori
A friend of Neruda’s.
Her husband was the Chilean painter Camilo Mori.
The speaker is a friend of Maru Mori, and someone who really appreciates handmade socks!
Handmade by Maru Mori for the speaker out of sheepswool. The speaker finds them audacious, luminous, handsome, beautiful, and good.
The Question and Answer section for Ode to My Socks is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
In a metaphor the speaker compares his feet to “two woolen/fish.”
In an extension of the fish metaphor, his feet become sharks.
Continuing the series of metaphors, his feet become “two mammoth blackbirds/two cannons.”
Metaphors in which the socks...
Ode to my Socks is an ode, as it praises the socks.
The poem is an ode to the speaker's socks.
Simile:
“I resisted
the strong temptation
to save them
the way schoolboys
bottle
fireflies,
the way scholars
hoard
sacred documents.”
“Like explorers who in...
The speaker’s friend gives him a gift of soft homemade socks. He tries them on and finds them very beautiful. The poem personifies his new socks alternately as fish, sharks, blackbirds, and cannons. The speaker feels that his feet are honored by...
