The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
Pablo Neruda was born in Parall, Chile. He studied in Santiago in the twenties. From 1927 to 1945 he was the Chilean consul in Rangoon, in Java, and then in Barcelona. He joined the Communist Party after the Second World War. Between 1970 and 1973 he served in Allende’s Chilean Government as ambassador to Paris. He died shortly after the coup that ended the Allende Government.
Neruda's career as a poet began with love poetry and ended with love poetry. One of his very last works, written only days before his death, is The End, a love poem to [his wife] Matilde. There were, of course, changes; there were deviations during the period of Residence on Earth, for example; there were turns and innovations during the period of political and epic poetry that began in the late thirties and culminated in 1950 with Canto General, but there was also a remarkable continuity. Erotic poetry and love poetry were for Neruda an important, essential part of his poetic life.
Pablo Neruda was one of the most prolific poets of our century. To trace the development of even one aspect of his poetic world is far from easy. Yet in the case of his erotic poetry and his love poetry the outline of that development is clear enough. The early Neruda, from his first published book, Crepusculario, and then especially in Twenty Poems, is a sensualist and a materialist in his approach to love and woman…. [In Twenty Poems] Neruda intensifies the complete fusion between woman and Nature. Joy and despair, like Marisol and Marisombra, mingle and alternate in this book, but whatever the emotion of the moment, the poet is constant in his identification of woman with Nature, in his use of Nature imagery to describe woman, and in his conception of woman as a vehicle for a return to Nature. In these richly sensual poems, the style is still on the whole modern Romantic with symbolist overtones and the first few hints of the newer, more disturbing poetic styles. Yet they remain constructive poems, in that they are organized around experiences in which real human beings, Neruda himself and the women he loved, provide a stabilizing platform upon which each poem is built.
展开- A Dog Has Died1853 字
- A Lemon943 字
- A Song of Despair1278 字
- Bird727 字
- Brown and Agile Child738 字
- Canto XII from The Heights of Macchu Picchu1719 字
- Cats Dream1076 字
- Clenched Soul661 字
- Drunk as Drunk678 字
- Enigmas742 字
- Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks869 字
- Fleas interest me so much482 字
- From – Twenty Poems of Love1458 字
- from The Book of Questions170 字
- Gentleman Alone1701 字
- I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair755 字
- I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You656 字
- If You Forget Me1144 字
- Im Explaining a Few Things1597 字
- In My Sky At Twilight740 字
- Leaning Into The Afternoons656 字
- Lost in the forest...626 字
- Love674 字
- Magellanic Penguin996 字
- Nothing But Death2075 字
- Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market701 字
- Ode to Maize1547 字
- Ode to Sadness710 字
- Ode to Salt903 字
- Ode to the Book1503 字
- Ode To Wine1740 字
- Poetry1026 字
- Poor Fellows766 字
- Puedo Escribir1807 字
- Saddest Poem1511 字
- Some Beasts880 字
- Sonata914 字
- Sonnet LXXXI724 字
- Sonnet VIII672 字
- Sonnet XI637 字
- Sonnet XVII692 字
- Sonnet XXXIV (You are the daughter of the sea)512 字
- The Dictators697 字
- The Light Wraps You542 字
- The Night in Isla Negra505 字
- The Question894 字
- The Saddest Poem1515 字
- The Song of Despair305 字
- The Weary One603 字
- The White Mans Burden625 字
- Tonight I Can Write1625 字
- Tonight I can write the saddest lines1606 字
- Tower Of Light457 字
- Walking Around2035 字
- Water376 字
- We Are Many1664 字
- XVII (I do not love you...)758 字
- XXXIV (You are the daughter of the sea)766 字
- Your Feet473 字
- Your Laughter1085 字