The Personality and poetry of Pablo Neruda is hard to define because sometimes it help the reader to understand his poetic vision and characteristics and sometimes it create hindrances for the readers as his poetic images changes to fit a meaningful place in the world. At the same time it is very true that very few poets are as famous today as Pablo Neruda in his life. He wrote Poetry from an early age and won prizes as a teenager. Besides he was a politically active man of the left. A close look to his ‘Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair’, ‘100 Love Sonnets’, ‘The Captain’s Verses’, ‘Canto General’, ‘Residence on Earth’ and ‘Elementary Odes’ show that his way of outlook, his poetic thoughts, visions, images, symbols change with the contemporary …show more content…
In that time it was too tough for him to compose poetry as solitude captured him very much. In such time ‘Residence on Earth (1933)’ was published with theme of pessimism, alienation, isolation and fear of death. These poems contained the nascent existentialism of that period. Chaos and absurdity surrounded him. Even erotism was for him a futile thing. In his ‘Walking Around’ he said: “I happen to be tired of being a man I happen to enter tailor shops and movie houses Withered, impenetrable, like a felt swan navigating in a water of sources and ashes The smell of barbershops makes me wail. I want only not to see establishments or gardens, Or merchandise, or eyeglasses, or elevators. I happen to be tired of my feet and my nails and my hair and my shadow. I happen to be tired of being a man” (Walking