Metaphors In Neruda's We Are Many

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The speaker of We Are Many is someone inside of all of us. Neruda uses many metaphors to our changing lives. The speaker describes the changing faces of life and how it’s never what we want it to be but when we are where we want to be it doesn’t shine through. In lines five through eight the speaker talks about how even intelligent people can come off as fools with no control over it. There is much regret in how we are perceived by others when it’s not our true self. “The fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say” is describing the parts we try to hide away from the rest of the world and get upset when it shines over the parts we want the world to think about us. Neruda gives more imagery in the lines thirty-two and thirty-three,

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