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Pablo Neruda

Biography Pablo Neruda

Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (/nəˈruːdə/; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða]), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).

Early Life

Pablo Neruda was born Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in the Chilean town of Parral in 1904. His father worked for the railroad, and his mother was a teacher who died shortly after his birth. At age 13, he began his literary career as a contributor to the daily La Mañana, where he published his first articles and poems. In 1920, he contributed to the literary journal Selva Austral under the pen name Pablo Neruda, which he assumed in honor of Czech poet Jan Neruda.

Poems

Some of Neruda's early poems are found in his first book, Crepusculario (Book of Twilight), published in 1923, and one of his most renowned works, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair), was published the following year. Twenty Love Poems made Neruda a celebrity, and he thereafter devoted himself to verse.

Diplomatic Career

In 1927, Neruda began his long diplomatic career (in the Latin American tradition of honoring poets with diplomatic posts), and he moved frequently around the world. In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began and Neruda chronicled the atrocities, including the execution of his friend Federico García Lorca, in his España en el corazón (Spain in Our Hearts).

Over the next 10 years, Neruda would leave and return to Chile several times. Along the way, he was named Chile's consul to Mexico and won election to the Chilean Senate. He would also begin to attract controversy, first with his praise of Joseph Stalin (in poems such as "Canto a Stalingrado" and "Nuevo canto de amor a Stalingrado") and later for his poetry honoring Fulgencio Batista ("Saludo a Batista") and Fidel Castro.

Always left-leaning, Neruda joined the Communist Party of Chile in 1945, but by 1948 the Communist Party was under siege, and Neruda fled the country with his family. In 1952, the Chilean government withdrew its order to seize leftist writers and political figures, and Neruda returned to Chile once again.

Accomplishments

For the next 21 years, Pablo Neruda continued to write prodigiously, rising in the ranks of 20th century poets. (The collection of his complete works, which is continually being republished, filled 459 pages in 1951; by 1968 it amounted to 3,237 pages, in two volumes.) He also received numerous prestigious awards, including the International Peace Prize in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

Works

  • Veinte Poems of Love and a Desperate Song.
  • Tentative of the Infinite Man.
  • The enthusiastic Slinger.
  • The inhabitant and his Hope.
  • Residence on Earth.
  • Spain in the Heart.
  • Nuevo Canto de Amor a Stalingrado.
  • Tercera Residencia.
  • General Song.
  • The Verses of the Captain.
  • All the Love.
  • The Grapes and the Wind.
  • Elemental Odes.
  • New Elemental Odes.
  • One Hundred Sonnets of Love.
  • Song of Gesta.
  • The Stones of the Sky.
  • Stockholm’s Talk.
  • The Separated Rose.
  • Wake up from the Woodcutter.

Posthumous Publications

  • The sea and the Bells.
  • Elegia.
  • The Yellow Heart.
  • Winter Garden.
  • I confess that I have lived.
  • Book of Questions.
  • The end of the Journey.

Quotes

  • “Love is so short and forgetting is so long.”
  • “I like you when you keep quiet because you are absent.”
  • “My nothing saves us from death, unless love saves us from life.” “In a kiss, You will know everything I have kept silent.”
  • “Knowing the love of those we love is the fire that feeds life.”
  • “For your heart, your chest is enough, for your freedom, my wings are enough.”

Sonnet XIII:The Light That Rises From Your Feet To Your Hair

Pablo Neruda

Oda Al Tomate

Pablo Neruda

The People

Pablo Neruda

The Night In Isla Negra

Pablo Neruda House, Light, Night, Ocean, Sea, Sky

Love

Pablo Neruda Beautiful, Kiss, Lost, Love, Memory, Together, Wind, World

I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair

Pablo Neruda

Poor Creatures

Pablo Neruda

Ode To Ironing

Pablo Neruda

Fable Of The Mermaid And The Drunks

Pablo Neruda Death, Light, Lost, Rain, River, Swimming

Sonnet LXXXI: Rest With Your Dream Inside My Dream

Pablo Neruda

Sonnet XI

Pablo Neruda Hair, Heart, Hunting, Sonnet

Cat’s Dream

Pablo Neruda Cat, Dark, Dream, Fire, Hunting, Night, Sleep, Sometimes, Tiger, Water, World

Ode To My Socks

Pablo Neruda

And Because Love Battles

Pablo Neruda

Canto Xii From The Heights Of Macchu Picchu

Pablo Neruda Birth, Brother, Hope, Light, Night, Rose, Silence, Sorrow, Time, Water

From – Twenty Poems Of Love

Pablo Neruda Kiss, Lost, Love, Night, Pain, Sky, Sometimes, Star, Wind

Song Of Despair

Pablo Neruda

Triangles

Pablo Neruda

Epithalamium

Pablo Neruda

Soneto XVII

Pablo Neruda

Some Beasts

Pablo Neruda Butterfly, Night, Sleep, World

Ode To Maize

Pablo Neruda America, Child, Children, Dark, Death, Green, History, Hope, Journey, Laughter, Light, Ocean, Ode, Rose, Sea, Song, Strength, Woman, Women, Work

The Weary One

Pablo Neruda Concrete, Solitude, Sorrow, Summer, Winter

Sonnet XLII: I Hunt For A Sign Of You

Pablo Neruda

Puedo Escribir

Pablo Neruda Sea

Perhaps Not To Be Is To Be Without Your Being

Pablo Neruda

Sonnet XVII

Pablo Neruda Dark, Fire, Flower, Light, Love, Pride, Rose, Sonnet, Thanks

Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines

Pablo Neruda Kiss, Lost, Love, Night, Pain, Sky, Sometimes, Star, Tree, Wind

Absence

Pablo Neruda

A Lemon

Pablo Neruda Fire, Flower, House, Light, Tree, World

I Remember You As You Were

Pablo Neruda

So That You Will Hear Me

Pablo Neruda

Leave Me A Place Underground

Pablo Neruda

The Tree Is Here, Still, In Pure Stone

Pablo Neruda

Unity

Pablo Neruda

La Muerta

Pablo Neruda

The Fear

Pablo Neruda

The Question

Pablo Neruda Fear, Life, Love

Poetry

Pablo Neruda Alone, Fire, Flower, Heart, Night, Poetry, River, Silence, Star, Wind, Winter

Clenched Soul

Pablo Neruda Dog, Lost, Night, Remember, Sad, Sometimes, Sun, Sunset, World

Poesia

Pablo Neruda

Gentleman Alone

Pablo Neruda Alone, Animal, Flower, Happy, Hero, Home, Horse, Husband, Kiss, Moon, Night, Ocean, Sad, Summer, Together, Woman, Women

Your Hands

Pablo Neruda

From The Book Of Questions

Pablo Neruda Rain, Rose, Tree, World

I Like For You To Be Still

Pablo Neruda

Ode To A Large Tuna In The Market

Pablo Neruda Dark, Death, Fish, Fishing, Green, Nature, Night, Ocean, Ode, Sea, Silver, Swimming, Truth, Water, Wind

What Spain Was Like

Pablo Neruda Isolation

The Fickle One

Pablo Neruda

The Dictators

Pablo Neruda Death, Light, Silence, Water

Ode to Hope

Pablo Neruda

Still Another Day: I

Pablo Neruda

Always

Pablo Neruda

The Insect

Pablo Neruda

The Light Wraps You

Pablo Neruda Alone, Dark, Fire, Flower, Friend, Life, Light, Night, People, Rose, Sun

Enigma With Flower

Pablo Neruda

Poet’s Obligation

Pablo Neruda

Come With Me, I Said, And No One Knew (VII)

Pablo Neruda

Algunas Bestias

Pablo Neruda

It’s Good To Feel You Are Close To Me

Pablo Neruda

Ode To Bird Watching

Pablo Neruda

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