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With the ‘Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks,’ Pablo Neruda takes a fantastic and fictional object such as a mermaid and personifies it at the level of human beings to analyze how man is no higher than the level of animals. A mermaid, fish by nature, is on the same level as man who is likewise an animal. Once again, Neruda has personified the non-human [...]