We Are Many Poem By Pablo Neruda

It is amazing what kinds of things prison can do to a person's mind. People who have gone to prison often get released flummoxed and questioning life. Latin American literature includes the author's experiences just as Pablo Neruda explained in his for poems. Latin American Authors use experiences like this to help draw in the reader to read it and to help the reader know what their life is like. Common land American poems and stories had a dark tone, describing the author's actions. The dark tone throughout the stories is shown by the reoccurring themes of captivity, self evaluation, and insanity.

If someone were to be in captivity they would be under control by someone else. We can see the use of captivity in Neruda first poem "We Are Many" when the narrator explains himself becoming more relevant in the world. "But when I call upon my dashing being, out comes the same old lazy self"(Neruda 346). This implies that he is captivating himself and needs to let him so go. The next example is in the poem "Too Many Names". The author writes about what he experienced while captive," I know only the skin of the earth and I
This theme can be shown in the poem "We Are Many" when the storyteller tells the reader what he is imagining. "I am left in envy of the cowboys, left admiring even the horses"(Neruda 346). He is picturing only seeing animals without humans. The theme of insanity can also be seen in the poem "Too Many Names" when the main prisoner talks about his actions while in captivity. "[W]hen I spoke to a stone it rang like a bell"(Neruda 347). It is insane for someone to talk to something such as a stone. we can finally see this reoccurring theme in the poem poetry. The author talks about his thoughts,"I felt myself a pure part of the abyss"(Neruda 351). It is a strange thought to be of an abyss. The use of insanity as a theme helps create a dark tone by the characters