Inanimate Objects appears in Walking Around

Pablo Neruda was different than most people. He saw the world through different kinds of eyes. What most people would dismiss as ordinary and everyday objects, Neruda pictured as having a life blood flowing through. Neruda especially had a kind of fixation with the houses and the rooms that he inhabited, of which there were many because he traveled often in his younger years. He had an uncanny ability to sense the energy left behind in the places that he stayed, so much so that it came through in his poetry quite often. In the poem Walking Around, (pg. 105) for example, he talks of the houses that he hates, where "there are mirrors which should have wept with shame and horror, there are umbrellas all over the place, and poisons, and navels" (pg. 107.) He saw the lives of these past people pulsing through, for example, the mirror that he speaks of, and imagines it as a silent witness to the atrocities sometimes inherent in human existence.