In Pablo Neruda's love poems, "Body of a Woman" and "Sonnet 89", the theme concerns a woman that Neruda loved. This essay will analyze how Neruda uses imagery and metaphor, among other things, to reflect on Neruda's maturity over time. When Neruda wrote “Body of a Woman,” he was only nineteen years old. It is part of a collection of poems entitled “Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair”. These poems are presentations of Neruda's personal experience as a lover. The poems were inspired by his relationships with two women during his student years. The collection was rejected by the main Chilean publisher due to its sexual nature. In contrast, “Sonnet 89” was written when he was forty-six years old. It is part of another collection of poems called “100 love sonnets”. This collection is a demonstration of his affection towards his wife, Mathilde Urrutia. The title itself “Woman’s Body” is an example of imagery. Neruda could be talking about a description of a woman's body in the literal sense or about Chile, the country to which he showed his loyalty and fidelity. ...