What are the motifs in Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda?

Love is a recurring idea in Neruda's poetry. The book that made Pablo Neruda a household name in Latin America was called Twenty Love Poems and Song of Despair, published in 1924 when he was just twenty years old. Some of Neruda's most famous poems were published in this collection, and are still today some of the best known and well loved poems in history. What sets Neruda's love poetry apart is his use of startlingly direct language and his poignant, original and subtle imagery. At a very young age, Neruda was able to capture the gut-wrenching angst and passion of young love so brilliantly that is instantly propelled him into fame. A great example of the talent that Neruda had to make himself so vulnerable and exposed, while capturing the emotions of love that anyone who has ever been in love can relate to, is in the poem entitled Every Day You Play (pg. 25). Neruda writes, "You are like nobody since I love you. L