Neruda pablo

1967 · 133314 — Cape Coliard Press 1967. Signed limited edition one of only 100 examples this is number 65. Octavo original cloth illustrated with a cut-out by Jim Dine. Boldly signed by Pablo Neruda and the translator Alistair Reid. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Alistair Reid. Photographs by Hans Ehrmann. In his philosophical poem We Are Many Neruda offers the reader a brooding introspective narrative about his comically confused sense of self-identity and conflict of self. It is an unrhymed and unmetered free-verse poem which is in keeping with its very modern subject-matter—namely Neruda's saddening lack of self-knowledge in contradiction to ancient Greece's Delphic maxim “Know thyselfâ€. Throughout the poem Neruda expresses his rather comical inability to understand himself or even define himself in any meaningful way. This theme of a philosophical identity crisis and search for oneself is reinforced by the poem's broken architecture which is replete with seemingly self-contradictory assertions. This free-verse poem begins with two four-line stanzas but ends with a ten-line stanza—for a total of seven stanzas of varying and gradually increasing number of lines 4 4 6 6 7 8 10. It uses personifications metaphors hyperbole allegory self-parody and other similar poetic devices to communicate its philosophical theme and deeper meaning to Neruda's numerous readers. Cape Coliard Press hardcover