Chilean writer Pablo Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 and is considered one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. The speaker of this poem feels as though he is an array of different types of people–brave, cowardly, intelligent, and foolish–all at once. Read the poem here.
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