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

Pablo Neruda is the poet who wrote all the poems in this collection. His role as the poet makes his voice in these poems mainly omniscient, but he switches into different characters throughout, and also writes objects to life through personification. The poems in this collection are the very life blood of Neruda's time on earth, guiding the reader through the different phases and locations of his life. Neruda was a rare kind of poet in that everything he saw in his life was not only a reason to write poetry, but poetry itself.