Situating Pablo Neruda in the Domain of World Literature: The Universality in his Selected Poems

World literature defines a space that is post-colonial, non-canonical and largely post-modern. It amalgamates the global and the local, making the literature a cultural impetus. Reality constitutes of perception and imagination, which are subjective, disoriented, dissociative and associative in nature. The present paper attempts to situate Neruda in the domain of World Literatures through David Damrosch's perspective on World Literatures. A qualitative analysis of his selected poems has been undergone based on the common themes of death, war, life and existence.