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    What is Pablo Neruda's poem "Magellanic Penguin" about symbolically?

    Magellanic Penguin

    Neither clown nor child nor black
    nor white but verticle
    and a questioning innocence
    dressed in night and snow:
    The mother smiles at the sailor,
    the fisherman at the astronaunt,
    but the child child does not smile
    when he looks at the bird child,
    and from the disorderly ocean
    the immaculate passenger
    emerges in snowy mourning.

    I was without doubt the child bird
    there in the cold archipelagoes
    when it looked at me with its eyes,
    with its ancient ocean eyes:
    it had neither arms nor wings
    but hard little oars
    on its sides:
    it was as old as the salt;
    the age of moving water,
    and it looked at me from its age:
    since then I know I do not exist;
    I am a worm in the sand.

    the reasons for my respect
    remained in the sand:
    the religious bird
    did not need to fly,
    did not need to sing,
    and through its form was visible
    its wild soul bled salt:
    as if a vein from the bitter sea
    had been broken.

    Penguin, static traveler,
    deliberate priest of the cold,
    I salute your vertical salt
    and envy your plumed pride.

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    it is about a penguin who prefers magellan gps systems over other brands.

 

 

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