We Are Many

The poem "We Are Many" begins with

• ten-line stanza

• six-line stanza

• nine-line stanza

• four-line stanza

The poem "We Are Many" ends with

• ten-line stanza

• six-line stanza

• nine-line stanza

• four-line stanza

The poem "We Are Many" is meant as a response to the question (a)   .

Which among the following characterizes the poem "We Are Many"?

• The theme of a philosophical identity crisis and search for oneself is reinforced by the poem's broken architecture, which is replete with seemingly self-contradictory assertions.

• It uses vivid figurative language and visual imagery to voice the poet's comical disappointments and self-doubts about who he really was as a person.

• It is Neruda's innermost sentiments of being confused, even torn asunder, and ultimately betrayed by his own badly divided, multi-headed ego.

• It is a rhymed and metered free-verse

What is the full name of the author of "We Are Many"?

(a)  

In what country was Pablo Neruda born?

(a)  

At what age did Pablo Neruda published his first work?

(a)  

What is the best explanation of this stanza:

"Of the many men who I am, who we are; I can't find a single one."

• The author has split personality.

• There is a multitude of selves who live inside him.

• The author experiences uncertainty on what he really wants.

• There is something troubling the author.

What is the best explanation for this stanza?

“When everything seems to be set to show me off as a man of intelligence,

the fool I keep concealed on my person takes over my talk and occupies my mouth.”

• It describes his profound misgivings about the consistency, steadiness and reliability of his own versatile and unpredictable character.

• It is an evocative metaphor, embodying his sense of being completely lost within his own splintered, changeable, and illusive self.

• it describes the author's inability to speak confidently.

• It expresses the author's lack of self-esteem.

What is the best explanation of this stanza?

”While I am writing, I am far away; and when I come back, I have already left."

• When writing, the author leaves and does not finish his work.

• When composing poetry, the poet gets so engrossed with his work that he can no longer distinguish reality from fiction.

• When making his works, he gets heavily criticized thus he needs to put himself to exile.

• When composing poetry, the poet is transported into another realm swarming with his poetic ideas, dreams and fantasies, but when he tries to return to earthly reality, his own psychic self-world is all of a sudden “gone.”