Melancholy and anguish in the poetic representation: Pablo Neruda (poems of his first publications, 1920-1933)

Abstract

From the so-called literary “modernism” in force from the mid-nineteenth century until well into the twentieth, it is inferred how Neruda separates himself from the poetic hermeneutics of this tradition to move from an ontological interrogation to “being in the world” to another for “being in the world”. For this, we will resort to a reflection that becomes ontological questions about being in the Heideggerian world to understand finally Neruda’s poetic transference from anguish and melancholy to optimism, hope and prophecy as a way to channel an inexhaustible poetic capacity.