Pablo Neruda , a Nobel prize winning Chilean poet had penned down his feelings towards love and despair in an explicit way in his book titled Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair . The poems were originally written by him in Spanish and it was later translated to English by poet W. S. Merwin . The book consists twenty poems (as the name suggests) and at the end comes a beautiful song that fills the heart with feelings that are difficult to express. Words of the poem lays a hand on the senses of a human being and ushers in love and sorrow at the very outset. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair begins with the lines describing the body of a woman in an exquisite way. Words of the lines are very exotic as he says 'Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, / you look like a world, lying in surrender. / My rough peasant's body digs in you / and makes the son leap from the depth of the earth.' The poems go on exploring the journey of a person through the waves o