In “We Are Many," Neruda is constantly battling with himself over who he is, or if he will ever know his true identity. He has trouble with understanding his different personalities and he shares this problem with other people through his writing. Neruda has a lot of conflict with himself and he is exploring his life and his daily situations to try and figure out who he is. In this poem, he uses personification, metaphor, and hyperbole to give the reader an illustration of what his internal conflicts are. Using personification, he writes and explains the way he is as if they are a part of the story, like characters. Some of them being, “an arsonist burst on the scene” and “a coward completely unknown to me swallows my poor skeleton”. If the reader could go back to the poem and read these quotes in context, they can begin to realize that these examples of personification are very harsh and aggressive. The reader can understand that the author is very hard on himself. Neruda draws a picture with these personifications by making himself out as the helpless one in the poem or the victim to show the reader how he feels. Helpless because he can not figure out his identity. Neruda also uses metaphors in “We Are Many”. Specifically at the beginning and the end. The metaphor used at the beginning reads, “They are lost to me under the cover of clothing. They have departed for another city.” To make the reader understand what “They” means in context, Neruda was talking about his different personalities. Meaning that he did not just have one personality, he could not tell which one was really him. When it says “lost to me under the cover of clothing” he is saying that he is hiding or covering up his true self. Also when it says, “They have departed for another city.” He means that the person he is looking for has vanished, has moved away. He says this because he wants the reader to understand that searching for his t