Metaphors In Neruda's We Are Many

The speaker of We Are Many is someone inside of all of us. Neruda uses many metaphors to our changing lives. The speaker describes the changing faces of life and how it’s never what we want it to be but when we are where we want to be it doesn’t shine through.
In lines five through eight the speaker talks about how even intelligent people can come off as fools with no control over it. There is much regret in how we are perceived by others when it’s not our true self. “The fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say” is describing the parts we try to hide away from the rest of the world and get upset when it shines over the parts we want the world to think about us.
Neruda gives more imagery in the lines thirty-two and thirty-three,

“I’d love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me” he relates this to walking into a store and the bell rings for someone to help you. He wants help and wishes it were that easy to receive it. We all struggle and it’s hard to get help when your glory parts aren’t being shown off. People avoid you and you become stuck.
Being a college student it’s a struggle finding yourself and this poem emphasizes that you’re not the only one who has felt this way. It’s comforting to know someone else has been where you are and can tell you it ends up being okay. I felt this poem told me I can mess up and I can be brilliant but whichever happens I need myself.
It’s strange that even in this poem the speaker ask if anyone else has felt the same way before. It’s somewhat ironic because that is the purpose of the poem is to relate to others of this feeling of how we express ourselves. In the beginning he proposes the statement of “who we are” and then going back to wondering if maybe it’s only himself who feels that way. It goes from confidently everyone to questionable everyone.