Who is Marisol from Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems and what is their importance?

Marisol is one of the two female "characters" that weave in and out of Neruda's poetry - particularly the works found in Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Marisol literally means 'Mary Sun' or 'Mary Sea.' Marisol is who Neruda described as being "love in the enchanted countryside, with stars in bold relief at night and dark eyes like the wet sky of Temuco. She appears with all her joyfulness and her lively beauty on every page, surrounded by the waters of the port, and by a half moon over the mountains." In other words, when we read a piece of poetry written by Neruda which has a tone of fresh, passionate, starry-eyed love, he is speaking of Marisol.