Pablo NerudaA poet whose works are powerful enough to move hearts and change perspectives, despite any barriers that may have gotten in the way. By Caitlin Cavanaugh, Andrea Ricca, and Michael
Grant
“Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.”-Pablo Neruda
July 12, 1904 Parral, Chile
Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
Began writing poetry at nine
Background Info
Father did not approve of passion
Pablo NerudaMoved to Santiago
CrepuscularioDiplomat
Biography
BiographyCaballo verde para la
poesíaSpanish Civil War
MexicoSenate and Communism
Hiding
Canto generalBack in Chile
Matilde UrrutiaAwards
LeukemiaOn September 23, 1973, Pablo
Neruda died in Santiago Chile.
Biography
Love, We’re Going Home Now
Love, we're going home now,Where the vines clamber over the trellis:Even before you, the summer will arrive,On its honeysuckle feet, in your bedroom.
Our nomadic kisses wandered over all the world:Armenia, dollop of disinterred honey:Ceylon, green dove: and the YangTse with its oldOld patience, dividing the day from the night.
And now, dearest, we return, across the crackling seaLike two blind birds to their wall,To their nest in a distant spring:
Because love cannot always fly without resting,Our lives return to the wall, to the rocks of the sea:Our kisses head back home where they belong.
Natural elements/references to nature
Love Passion
Loneliness
Neruda’s Style
OdesRepetition
PoliticsSingle words
Neruda’s Style
“turtle platedwith severeamberscales”
“The graceful Olives Polished By the hands”
“Come See the blood along the streets Come see”
Literary Criticism
Some considered a portion of his work as not even poetry but “rhetoric propaganda”
Called the “Lorca or Alberti of Spanish America”He wrote “like breathing” but his style
transformed over many yearsWrote “impure poetry” (a term which he coined)An “obscure name” in the United States“Jumble of quality and perversity”
We AgreeA fair percent of his poems were ‘rhetoric and
propaganda’ He was the ‘Lorca or Alberti of Spanish
America’Died with a high-volume of poems and
transformation of styleHe wrote “impure poetry” ‘Jumble of quality and perversity’
We DisagreeAn ‘obscure’ name in the United States
To Wrap Things Up…
Neruda has proven that the drive for success can be strong enough to knock down any walls that may be in the way
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971
He died at 69 years old and with all his work collected together; in published form the book had well over 3000 pages
List of Works Cited“Chilean Nature.” http://www.flickr.com/ . Yahoo! Inc., 25 Nov. 2007. Web. 26 Feb. 2012.Clements, Robert J. “Neruda Laureate” Saturday
Review Nov. 1971: 50-51.Print.Coleman, Alexander. “Pablo Neruda 1904-1973” The New
York Times Book Review May 1972: 4, 40. Print.“Crepusculario.” http://www.paperbackswap.com/ index.php.
PaperBack Swap, n.d. Web. 26 Feb. 2012.Felsteiner, John. “Pablo Neruda: Nobel Prize at Isla Negra,” The New Republic
Dec. 1971: 29-31. Print.
List of Works Cited
Goodnough, David. Pablo Neruda. Series in Hispanic
biographies. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1998. Print.
“I’ll Explain Some Things.” http://motherbird.com/ . Moongate Internationale, n.d. Web. 26 Feb. 2012.
Johanson, Paula. World Poetry- “Evidence of Life”2010 Enslow
publishersNew Jersey
Neruda, Pablo, 1904. The captain's verses (Los versos del capitán). Series in A
New Directions book. New York, New Directions, 1972. Print.
List of Works Cited
Neruda, Pablo. Five decades. New York: Grove Press, c1974. Print.
Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973. Late and Posthumous Poems, 1968-1974. New
York: Grove Press, 1988. Print.
Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973. Pablo Neruda ; Selected Poems. New York
Delacorte Press, 1970. Print.
“Ode to Olive Oil.” http://motherbird.com/ . Moongate Internationale, n.d.
Web. 26 Feb. 2012.
List of Works Cited “Pablo Neruda.” http://www.poets.org. Academy of
American Poets, n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2012.
“Pablo Neruda y Matilde Urrutia.” http:/
/www.elcultural.es/ . N.p., 8 July 2004. Web. 26 Feb.
2012.
Rader, Dean. Literature of Developing Nations for Students: Presenting
Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Developing Nations. Ed.
Elizabeth Bellalouna, Michael L. La Blanc, and Ira Mark Milne. Vol.
2. Detriot: Gale Group 2000. Literature Resource Center. Web. 16 Feb. 2012.
