Pablo Neruda's work in poetry mainly uses social reform and his suffering during his exile from Chile as its main themes. The Melancholy of his life is reflected in his poems, "Tonight I can write the saddest lines" (TEXT BOOK 2442). Even in times of despair, Pablo's poetry reflected "a corrupt sensibility" (Cohen 323). The ability to put down in words the feelings and sentiments of him self as well as other was one of Neruda's gifts. Though not always apparent in English due to the loss of the beautiful language in translation, he had a wonderful command of grammar and lines in verse. Neruda's has three distinguishable periods of life that affected his writing, with the turning points being the Spanish civil war, and his triumphant return to chili (Mendez-Ramierz 2761).
             In the beginning "Crepusculario" was a poem of social protest (Cohen 323). While experimenting with this new idea of creating turmoil through a poem, Pablo experimented with the secondary qualities of language (Mendez-Ramierz 2757). In "Crepusculario," Pablo begins to break the normal barriers of poetry and write off in to unknown territory. With the possible rejection of his poetry, that had come to be work rather than fun, Neruda seemed to drop all boundaries and reveal his "corrupt sensibility," (Cohen 323). This new disdain for what seemed to be authority only helped Neruda root himself more in feeling and in the depths of him as a person and his inner sole spilling out in to his writing (Bloom 69). "Along with the advancing introspection, emotional condensation and obscurity in technique, the very heart of Pablo Neruda's poetic sentiment undergoes a progressive intensification from melancholy to anguish" (Bloom 69). Pre-exile and pre-civil war, it is almost as if Pablo was predicting the future with his poetry. Sorrow in his poetry is his way of making a political stateme...