After the publication of poetry anthology, Nie Luda suddenly became the idol of Chilean youth. People rushed to recite the classic passages, and some poems even became a link between young people in Chile at that time. Many years later, when Nie Luda attended the recitation, he was still asked to recite a poem entitled "I can write tonight". Today, this collection of poems has been published in hundreds of millions of volumes and has a wide readership all over the world. Volodia Teitelboim, a Chilean writer and essayist, once said that although Nie Luda has been dead for more than 30 years, if his poems do not die, he will never die.
The theme of this collection of poems is love. Together with The Captain's Ship and One Hundred Love Sonnets, it is called Nie Luda's love trilogy. There are smiles that bloom because of love, and there are also emotional admiration for lovers, but more of them are affectionate loneliness, which can never distort the pain of love and a little sadness when recalling sweet past events. "A moment that should last forever has come and gone before I realize it." With the wings made of loved one, the poet crossed the shadow of time, the long river of missing and the chaos of the world. He used this hopeless but ardent love as the fulcrum of his life to contend with the darkness of life such as death, frustration and loneliness.
Poetry is not only a praise of love, but also a profound understanding of the nature of life. Love that has become a thing of the past, the true and painful experience endows love poems with thicker texture and deeper color. "Although at some moments, his love is a rose among thorns, a melancholy island, a painful window in a lonely room, and a sweet sadness," "but more often, his love is an eternal flame, an unbreakable slender thorn, a luxurious light that passes through the tree of life, and a gentle fire that is poured on the cold branches and leaves of life."
Nie Luda's poetry combines the tradition of Chilean national poetry with the characteristics of Spanish national poetry, and is compatible with the connotations of French modernist poets such as Baudelaire and Rambo and Whitman's free-form poetry. As his early works, Twenty Love Poems and Song of Despair are full of romanticism. The structure of these poems is as loose and open as prose, which makes the flow and development of feelings more natural, but the poet's emphasis on the theme makes each poem "scattered in form but not in spirit"
In the later published sonnet collection "One Hundred Sonnets of Love", there is such a dedication: "I know that poets have created a rhyme like silver, crystal and cannon for sonnets from all directions with elegant and outstanding taste. However, I humbly create these sonnets with wood as the material, endowing them with opaque and pure material sounds, and transmitting them to your ears ... "Nie Luda's poems are as simple as wood, but they have strong cohesion, integrating these scattered lines into a complete organism.