"Walking Around" by Pablo Neruda Analysis

Walking Through Hell
Pablo Neruda’s poem “Walking Around” displays a horrid look at society from a struggling class side in a communist light. Neruda uses personal accounts to describe an angry view on democracy and similar forms of government through tactical metaphors. Repetition helps create a dark feeling inside the speaker’s head, similar to a depressed line of thought. The speaker feels sickened by the human race’s destruction of the world and morality. He feels that the government has destined his life to be their tool and his desire not to be pulls him through each day. Thoughts of overcoming these obstacles are tightly pressed for he sees himself as just one man. Neruda concludes his character trudging on in reality; with hope that one day he will be more than just one man and they can overcome barriers created by their government.
In the first stanza we learn that the speaker feels like human life is a complete run-down and would like nothing more than t...