Life and poems of Pablo Neruda: a universal poet

Life and poems of Pablo Neruda.

Life and poems of Pablo Neruda.

To talk about Pablo Neruda we must go back to the double birth of the same poet. That is, just as there was a Ricardo Neftalí Reyes, there was also a Pablo Neruda, two different names with two different ways of speaking. It would not be enough to state that Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto was born on July 12, 1904 and that Pablo died on September 23, 1973, you have to go much deeper and explore the endless details of this universal poet.

Ricardo Neftalí decided to go to the capital carrying his youth in his pen, and carrying a muse inclined to love, joy and nostalgia. The poet's father did not like his talent for poetry, that brought differences between them. As a result of the impasses with his father, Ricardo decided to adopt the name of Pablo Neruda, a pseudonym that accompanied him to the end and that at that time freed him from family lawsuits. The poet's talent was notorious, to the point that, at just 16 years old, in 1921, he won his first poetry contest.

His early works

Pablo Neruda's style It was explosive, the young man began to write wildly, and the exaggeration that characterized him at that time was his star for life. For example, Twilight (1923) was born in the middle of that discovery of his emotions and feelings.

Next, the young poet astonished the literary community with one of the best-selling works in the Spanish language: 20 love poems and a desperate song (1924). This work penetrated deep into the world of letters and opened the doors of success to the young writer.

The avant-garde poet

Nerudian features slowly began to show an innovative face. Neruda's avant-garde was reflected in the handling of poetic structures, in the disorder of his own creativity, in freedom of thought and deep concern for social issues. The same poet, in his autobiography, said: "It was not possible to close the door to the street within my poems." At this point, Ricardo Reyes began to understand that Neruda had become something beyond a name: a renown.

A change of environment, a change of vision of life

Well, As he passed from the tranquility of Parral, his hometown, to the neigh that the arrival of his diplomatic career around the world gave him, the world poet emerged, the collector of things, the poet with the puffy gaze, the Latin American who wrote General sing and the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. That is, from a forgotten Ricardo a leap was made to a consecrated Pablo.

Neruda's four creative stages

Pablo Neruda's life was characterized by having four creative stages, each one conditioned by the circumstances that surrounded him.. Initially, his childhood in Parral and his early years in Santiago, which described a love poet influenced by Rubén Darío's modernism. In a second stage, the stage of his work: Residence on earth (1937), which identifies his stay in Burma, Colombo and Holland where he contracted the first of his three marriages. Third, his political stage that, from 1937, lasted until his death. In this last stage the book of books is distinguished from the Nerudian work: General sing (1950)

In this same sense, when speaking of a fourth period in Neruda's work, the special attention that he gave to the most "insignificant" things should be cataloged. The recurring themes in Neruda's work revolved around everyday reality, to the domestic, to the events of the street, to everything. His poetry in this sense unfolds in the Elemental Odes. For example, in "Ode to the Artichoke", not just anyone turns a plant into a warrior who dreams of the militia and ends up in the peace of a pot. Neruda's genius, without a doubt, danced to the sound of his context. They can also be named: Ode to the air, Ode to the onion, Ode to the building, Ode to envy, Ode to sadness, Ode to numbers, Ode to a clock at night, among others.

Neruda and his three wives

Neruda had three wives: María Antonieta Hagenaar, whom he met in Java, Delia del Carril, who despite her 50 years managed to captivate 30-year-old Pablo, and Matilde Urrutia, the nurse and homemaker who cared for him for phlebitis while he was in Mexico. To the latter he dedicated his collection of poems The captain's verses, a book that is divided into seven parts and where each one describes the sequences, according to the poet, of any love relationship: "Love", "Desire", "Furies", "Lives", "Ode and germinations "," Epitalamio "and" The letter on the road ".

Poems by Pablo Neruda

Below are three of Pablo Neruda's poems, this genius of verse:

Angela Adonica

Today I have stretched out next to a pure girl
as on the shore of a white ocean,
as in the center of a burning star
slow space.

Of his long green gaze
the light fell like dry water,
in transparent deep circles
of fresh strength.

His chest like a fire of two flames
it burned in two regions raised,
and in a double river it reached his feet,
big and clear.

A climate of gold was barely ripe
the diurnal lengths of his body
filling it with spread fruits
and hidden fire.

Care

Woman, I would have been your son, for drinking you
the milk of the breasts like a spring,
for looking at you and feeling you by my side and having you
in the golden laugh and the crystal voice.
For feeling you in my veins like God in the rivers
and worship you in the sad bones of dust and lime,
because your being will pass without pain next to me
and came out in the stanza -clean of all evil-.

How would I know how to love you, woman, how would I know
love you, love you like no one ever knew!
Die and still
love you more.
And yet
love you more
and more.

Quote by Pablo Neruda.

Quote by Pablo Neruda.

Neighborhood without light

Does the poetry of things go
or can't my life condense it?
Yesterday -looking at the last twilight-
I was a patch of moss among some ruins.

The cities -soles and revenge-,
the filthy gray of the suburbs,
the office that bends its back,
the cloudy-eyed boss.

Blood of a red on the hills,
blood on the streets and squares,
pain of broken hearts,
I will rot with boredom and tears.

A river embraces the suburb
like an icy hand that tempts in the dark:
on its waters they are ashamed
to see the stars.

And the houses that hide the desires
behind the bright windows,
while outside the wind
bring a little mud to each rose.

Away ... the mist of forgetfulness
-Thick smoke, broken cutwaters-,
and the field, the green field! in which they pant
the oxen and the sweaty men.

And here I am, sprouted among the ruins,
biting only all the sadness,
as if crying was a seed
and I am the only furrow in the earth.

Neruda, the pen that poeticized everything

Pablo Neruda was a universal poet because he wrote to everything that exists, to questions, to answers, to certainties, to lies, to misunderstandings, to justice, to values. In the same way, he did not omit in his verse the experiences of his past, the anguish of his present and the illusions of his future.

As well he sang to causes, politics, man, childhood, adolescence, joy and cruelties. However, the most incredible thing is having left behind his creations indecipherable images that we continue to discover even today. It is the latter that makes him an impossible poet to catalog.

Pablo Neruda's epistolary

Special mention should be made of his letters, In it are the letters sent to the love of his early age, Albertina Azocar, the letters to his family, to his friend Héctor Eandi and the love letters to Matilde Urrutia. In relation to the person who was the last great love of his life, he wrote him a letter dated December 21, 1950 and said the following: “If you come, you can count on me to take away my anger. I really need you. Now don't write to me more privately. Answer me in general about your life and projects ”. Clearly, it was noted that he no longer wanted to continue hiding this relationship with Urrutia.

Isla Negra, its final port

In addition to the works already named, the following can be cited: Twilight, Farewell and Sobbing, The Zealous Slinger, The Grapes and the Wind, Stravagario, Navigations and Returns, One Hundred Sonnets of Love, and Isla Negra Memorial. Regarding Isla Negra, where his mortal remains are buried, it is there where he wrote: "This is me, I will say, to leave this written pretext: this is my life.". Clearly this collection of poems began its final stage and it is up to the enthusiastic readers of the XNUMXst century to continue exploring the enormous Nerudian universe.

Poet Pablo Neruda.

Pablo Neruda in an address.

Neruda and the elevation of substances and elements

With the poetry of Pablo Neruda everything took on a new meaning, the verses of the snow rose, the blue colors overflowed and the snails of the Pacific Ocean were catapulted. With Neruda the simple men continue to rise, the haggard eyes, the destroyed homes, the fermented ovaries. Hence, it is not possible to catalog a poet who wrote to almost everything and who still continues to write without writing.


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