1. “Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.”-Pablo Neruda
A 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

2. Background Info July 12, 1904 Parral, Chile
Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
Began writing poetry at nine

3. Biography Father did not approve of passion Pablo Neruda
Moved to Santiago
Crepusculario
Diplomat

4. Biography Hiding Caballo verde para la poesía Spanish Civil War Mexico
Senate and Communism
Hiding

5. What Spain Was Like
Spain was a taut, dry drum-head Daily beating a dull thud Flatlands and eagle's nest Silence lashed by the storm. How much, to the point of weeping, in my soul I love your hard soil, your poor bread, Your poor people, how much in the deep place Of my being there is still the lost flower Of your wrinkled villages, motionless in time And your metallic meadows Stretched out in the moonlight through the ages, Now devoured by a false god. All your confinement, your animal isolation While you are still conscious Surrounded by the abstract stones of silence, Your rough wine, your smooth wine Your violent and dangerous vineyards. Solar stone, pure among the regions Of the world, Spain streaked With blood and metal, blue and victorious Proletarian Spain, made of petals and bullets Unique, alive, asleep - resounding.

6. Biography Canto general Back in Chile Matilde Urrutia Awards Leukemia
On September 23, 1973, Pablo Neruda died in Santiago Chile.

7. 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 old
Old patience, dividing the day from the night.
And now, dearest, we return, across the crackling sea
Like 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.

8. Neruda’s Style Natural elements/ references to nature Love Passion
Loneliness

9. Neruda’s Style Odes Repetition Single words
“The graceful Olives Polished By the hands”
Odes
Repetition
Single words
“turtle
plated
with severe
amber
scales”
“Come See the blood along the streets Come see”

10. 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 years
Wrote “impure poetry” (a term which he coined)
An “obscure name” in the United States
“Jumble of quality and perversity”
1st bullet: Nobel Peace Prize winning Juan Ramon Jimenez called him “a great bad poet.”
2nd bullet: His nonpolitical work was incredible and he wrote sincerely about love, anguish, nature, everyday life, hope, and many others. In our print source Poetry Rocks!: World Poetry it said that, “Neruda was perhaps the most important Latin-American poet of the 20th century.”
3rd bullet: Neruda wrote many books, (approx. 1500) poems, and epic poems. Overall, he was extremely prolific.
4th bullet: As apposed to the French idea of “Pure Poetry” Impure poetry best defines his own poetic credo. While at first he mostly wrote about the inner problems he later moved onto the outer world’s conflicts
5th bullet: He falls out of the ‘Anglo-European tradition’ that T.S. Eliot and Robert Lowell equip us to recognize. Also, our relatioship has become ‘too utilitarian.’ Most importantly, according to the source, the Western Hemisphere has no toleration for communism while Chileans are more familiar because it used to be communist. Lastly, until the late 60’s most of his work was not available in English
6th bullet: Perversity: resistance to guidance or discipline. “All in the service of poetry and political system.”

11. We Agree A 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 style
He wrote “impure poetry”
“Jumble of quality and perversity”
1st bullet: This is because he was a strong supporter of socialism and was that was very much a part of who he was.
2nd bullet: He has been considered as “perhaps the most important Latin-American poet of the 20th century.”
3rd bullet: Wrote a book with more than 3500 pages and overall he did many poems over his lifelong career. His style changed from inner personal struggle to struggles pertaining to the world such as government
4th bullet: His style was unique that did not conform to what was typical poetry at the time
5th bullet: His work was excellent and unique

12. We Disagree An “obscure” name in the United States
1st bullet: Made headlines, won a nobel prize, and is very famous

13. 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
He was one of the first Chileans to be awarded a nobel prize