Death is the event which everyone on earth cannot escape. All mankind have tried to overcome this event but eventually, surrender in the only thing that we are able to do. No matter how hard we do, the death is waiting at the final destination for all of us. This poem “Nothing But Death” by Pablo Neruda is a good example for described the death. The Chilean poet, Pablo used this meaningful poem to described the poignancy, painful, and desolation of the death through the figurative language. He equated the death to the music and in each stanza, he presented meaning of it through the unexpected objects. Emptiness is the definition of the death by his words. In other words, “Nothing But Death” might refer our life mean nothing but only death and it hiding among us.
Pablo gave us the dark tone feeling since the first stanza, “There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound,” he uses a metaphor the cemeteries for the heart which felt lonely. It could imagery of emotional of people in the funeral or in other words, it might refer to the place where human gradually turn into bones and there were become the silent place. The heart could refer to the spirit which when we die we going to the dark place as the smoke passed through the tunnel of the funeral church. In fifth and sixth line “like a shipwreck we die going into ourselves, as though we were drowning inside our hearts,” it seems as when we die, our spirits are drowning as a shipwreck in the deep ocean. Thus, it might define that death can turn life into the thing that can be destroyed as the ship was destroyed by the nature around it.