From the Poem "The United Fruit Co." by Pablo Neruda: What do the line, "a body rolls, a thing that has no name..." imply? Answer: The meaning of the lines: "…a body rolls, a thing that has no name…" This means that people from Latin America were just used by the Northern America's multinational corporations. The workers were exploited for their advantage. The natives work so hard but they were portrayed as worthless things that no one cares about. And they were just thrown like a trash. If you would also read from the poem, the flies pertain to the dictators while the fruits pertain to the Latin counties. Neruda also shows that the fruit has been eaten by the flies and it begun to rot. This is the complete poem of "The United Fruit Company" by Pablo Neruda: When the trumpet sounded, it was all prepared on the earth, the Jehovah parcelled out the earth to Coca Cola, Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other entities: The Frui...
