# Pablo Neruda's most famous poems

Neruda's most read and remembered poems, from Twenty Love Poems to Canto General, according to anthologies and popular poetry sites.

- 35 votes · 16 items
- Jan 16, 2025 · spoiler_merida
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## Top 16

1. **Walking Around** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Residence on Earth (1935). Urban weariness, with an English title.
2. **Poem 20** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924). The most recited farewell in Spanish.
3. **Poem 15** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Twenty Love Poems (1924). The one about the beloved's silence.
4. **Sonnet XVII** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — One Hundred Love Sonnets (1959). A love that can't be explained with flowers.
5. **So That You Will Hear Me** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Poem 5 of Twenty Love Poems (1924).
6. **If You Forget Me** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Captain's Verses (1952). A love warning it can leave too.
7. **The Song of Despair** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The closing poem of Twenty Love Poems (1924).
8. **I'm Explaining a Few Things** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Spain in Our Hearts (1937). The Civil War enters his poetry.
9. **Ode to My Socks** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — New Elemental Odes (1956). A pair of hand-knitted socks as a gift.
10. **Poem 1** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Twenty Love Poems (1924). The loved body as landscape.
11. **Ode to the Onion** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Elemental Odes (1954). Everyday things turned into poetry.
12. **The Heights of Macchu Picchu** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Canto General (1950). Climbing the ruins as a song to the peoples of America.
13. **Ode to Tomatoes** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Elemental Odes (1954). A Chilean salad in verse.
14. **Ode to Sadness** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Elemental Odes (1954). He stands up to melancholy.
15. **Your Laughter** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — The Captain's Verses (1952). Her laughter as a shelter.
16. **The United Fruit Co.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Canto General (1950). His most direct attack on the banana companies.

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