Pablo Neruda, writer of < > - FundacionNeruda.org.
All the Elemental Odes they are a clear song of Pablo Neruda to the identity that is in each thing of the daily task. The poet writes from a notorious maturity, that which the years give, he writes from the clarity that comes from having erased everything, having made literate castles and noticing, in the end, that the most beautiful thing is a house lined with snails facing the sea .
His odes flooded avant-garde to a somewhat dispersed society that expected other poetic forms to which it was already accustomed. In Neruda's brilliant vision, the onion takes center stage just before seen, just like the chestnut, and reminds us of the importance of these elements and the great beauty of their simplicity.
Miguel Otero Silva and the Elemental Odes
It is due to the director of the newspaper The National The birth of The Odthem. The Venezuelan journalist, politician and engineer made a proposal to the poet to write for the Caracas newspaper, and the writer accepted, in what would be a weekly collaboration. It all started, then, in 1954. Neruda himself says about it:
«Thus I managed to publish a long history of this time, of its things, of the trades, of the people, of the fruits, of the flowers, of life, of my position, of the struggle, in short, of everything that I could once again encompass my creation in a vast cyclical impulse ».
The beauty of all in The Odes by Neruda
From his "Ode to the air", to his "Ode to the sea", passing through his unexpected "Ode to the building" and the many other odes he wrote to exalt the role of the common in everyday life, Neruda manages to capture the attention of his readers and rediscover them with a different but close poetry.
The common thing is the voice that rises, everything is combined and intertwined without underestimating anything, because everything has its right place and its right moment in existence. It is this already mature vision of Neruda that gives him a place among the great poets, because achieving the indecipherable is not the difficult thing, the really complex thing is to take beauty from where it has always been and few have realized to see it and make it dominate. of all.
Yes, With his odes, the Chilean poet changed the poetic perception of a generation.
Pablo Neruda in Budapest.
The Universality of the "Elemental Odes"
The topics addressed in his works, as stated in advance, they were the key part of the success and scope of this part of the Nerudian work. It is its universality that characterizes Neruda's poetry, what emancipates, what makes it from the town, from ordinary people, from the poor, from the rich, from everyone, without distinction and with no need other than to provide real freedom to men.