Neruda’s "Ode to My Socks," which celebrates the extraordinary in an everyday item (a pair of handmade socks), is filled with nature motifs: rabbits, blackbirds, fireflies, fish, and deer, just to name a few. The mystical is also a recurring motif throughout the poem. Maru Mori’s wool, a textile described as being crafted from strands of dusk, gold, and, at one point, “woven fire,” transforms his otherwise ordinary feet into precious jewel boxes, cannons, sharks, and blackbirds. Light, as it appears as a time of day and a color, is also a motif. Since a motif may also be a recurring concept or feeling, one could argue that the immense joy that the narrator experiences from receiving his gift is a motif in itself.
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