Classics Revisited · A2 · Part 18 Apr 2026

If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda

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This poem explores the speaker's feelings about being forgotten and their response to losing affection.

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If you forget me, by Pablo Neruda. I want you to know one thing. You know how this is. If I look at the crystalnoun.结晶 moon at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window. If I touchverb.触摸, near the fire, the impalpable ashnoun.灰 or the wrinkled body of the lognoun.航行日志. Everything carries me to you. As if everything that exists, aromas, blightnoun.枯萎病, metals, or little boats that sailverb.航行 towards those aisles of yours that wait for me.

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branch

B1US/bræntʃ/EN/brɑːn(t)ʃ/

verb. 分支；出现分歧

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If I look at the crystal moon at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window.

ash

C1US/æʃ/EN/æʃ/

noun. 灰，灰末；骨灰

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If I touch, near the fire, the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log.

crystal

B1US/ˈkrɪstl/EN/ˈkrɪstl/

noun. 结晶，晶体；水晶；水晶饰品

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If I look at the crystal moon at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window.

log

C1US/lɔːɡ/EN/lɒɡ/

noun. 航行日志, 原木, 园形木材, 园木

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If I touch, near the fire, the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log.

blight

C2US/blaɪt/EN/blaɪt/

noun. 枯萎病, 不良影响, 打击

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As if everything that exists, aromas, blight, metals, or little boats that sail towards those aisles of yours that wait for me.