Tag Archives : Pablo Neruda

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 [...]

‘The Portrait in the Rock’ by Pablo Neruda is a poem about a man who was tired and disillusioned with life in Paraguay. He eventually left his country of origin, his home, and family and went into a self-imposed exile in a foreign land. Life, though, did not treat him kindly in his new country. He must have run into trouble that the police took [...]

Pablo Neruda’s ‘Ode to the Clothes’ is one of the poet’s attempts to bring seemingly humdrum objects to life, personifying them for the readers. Through the poetic eye, Neruda sees clothing become a lover and a most loyal friend, and all these while putting on his garb in the morning and noticing how his clothes take on the mold and contour [...]