It so happens I am sick of being a man. And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie houses dried up, waterproof, like a swan made of felt steering my way in a water of wombs and ashes…. Read More ›
Pablo Neruda biography
Analysis of Pablo Neruda’s The United Fruit Company
The United Fruit Company (1950) by Pablo Neruda is part of section five of Canto General, “The Sand Betrayed,” and was inspired by Pablo Neruda’s visit to Colombia in September 1943. At the time, the Colombian government was embroiled in… Read More ›
Analysis of Pablo Neruda’s Tonight I Can Write
“Tonight I can write the saddest lines,” Pablo Neruda declares in the opening, and the reader believes him. In simple, incantatory language, the poet’s longing for a lost love suffuses his perceptions of the natural world: “To hear the immense… Read More ›
Analysis of Pablo Neruda’s Ode with a Lament
A speaker praises his loved one, yet finds he is unable to satisfy her: this is not an unfamiliar trope in Neruda’s work. But in Ode with a Lament, from the second volume of Neruda’s somber Residencia en la Tierra… Read More ›
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda loved the rural, claiming that his poetry “gathers up earth and rain and fruit.” Yet he also loved the energy of cities, the music of busy marketplaces. He was loyal to his people of Chile even as their… Read More ›
Analysis of Pablo Neruda’s Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica – Pablo Neruda Between shadow and space, between harnesses and virgins, endowed with a singular heart and fatal dreams, impetuously pale, withered in the forehead and in mourning like an angry widower every day of my life, oh,… Read More ›
Analysis of Pablo Neruda’s Amor America
Neruda begins all of Canto General with “Amor America (1400),” in the opening section titled A Lamp of Earth. The significance of the year 1400 is that it marks a time before the arrival of Christopher Columbus or any other… Read More ›
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