Why is Neruda Bewildered?

In "Ars Poetica", Neruda speaks from the viewpoint of a poet

with a bewildered persona. The poet is constantly between

two worlds : the world of space and the world of constraint;

the world of joy and anguish; the world of love and misery.

The poet who is in the threshold of both worlds is always

amazed at being so. He is always in a wonderland of mystery

that he can fathom but cannot solve. The poet is also endowed

with the power of prophecy. As he dwindles between prophecy

and melancholy in a once-used house that has been left empty.

The empty house is metaphorical of an empty world where

the poet remains bewilderingly empty; thus open to all the new

experiences waiting for him in a new world of his creation.

In his empty neutral state the poet reunites with his poetic persona.