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Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto

(July 1904 – September 1973)

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What is in a name?What is in a name? The Chilean writer and politician Neftalí

Ricardo Reyes Basoalto aumed the penname !ablo "eruda and# later made it hile$al name%

"eruda aumed hi pen name a a teena$er#

partly becaue it wa in &o$ue# partly to hidehi poetry 'rom hi 'ather# a ri$id man whowanted hi on to ha&e a practicaloccupation%


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Highlights of his LifeHighlights of his LifeCame from a modest working class background

Father disliked his writing oetry

!n"uenced by #abriela $istral% a future Nobel winner

By the &'()s a formidable oet* but besieged byo+erty

Became an ardent communist after the ,anish Ci+ilwar

Held +arious dilomatic ositions

-ra+elled widely

&'.&% recei+ed the Nobel /ri0e 1for a oetry thatwith the action of an elemental force brings ali+e acontinent2s destiny and dreams1


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His writingsHis writings3!f you ask me what my oetry is4 ! must

answer 5 ! don6t know

but if you ask my oetry4 it will tell youwho ! am7

/ablo Neruda


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/oetry as a meditation/oetry as a meditationon lifeon life "eruda body o' poetry i rich and &aried % *t de&eloped alon$ 'our main direction+

,i lo&e poetry# uch a the youth'ul Twenty -o&e !oem and the mature -o&ero del Capit.n (19/ The Captain 2ere)# i tender# melancholy#

enuou# and paionate% *n material poetry# uch a 5eidencia en la tierra# loneline and depreionimmere the author in a ubterranean world o' dar6# demonic 'orce%

,i epic poetry i bet repreented by Canto $eneral# which i ahitmane8ue attempt at reinterpretin$ the pat and preent o' -atin mericaand the tru$$le o' it oppreed and downtrodden mae toward 'reedom%

nd :nally there i "eruda poetry o' common# e&eryday ob;ect# animal#and plant# a in preent attention to detail

o'daily li'e# hi lo&e o' thin$ made or $rown by human hand%


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?eepin$ @uiet

the necessity of 8uiet introsection and creating a feelingof mutual understanding among human beings


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-heme 5 a lea to-heme 5 a lea tomankindmankind To @uetion the way we mo&e throu$h our li&e

without pauin$ or carin$ 'orthe world around u

the uAerin$ o' nature# the world and other people

To CriticiBe the di&ii&e tendency o' man> let us notseak in any language* we would all be together in a suddenstrangeness

To Chatie man6ind 'or murder o' animal andother men and remind them o' > +ictory with nosur+i+ors

To Cleane oneel' o' all $uilt and hatred > ut onclean clothes and walk about with their brothers


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-o !dentify with-o !dentify with9:!;-N;,,

-he ,ilence

-hat will teach us-he meaning of sadness in our li+es

-he death threat we constantly li+e under


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LanguageLanguageSimple# common word

Strai$ht'orward entence contruction !ronically sensiti0es the reader to the ower of ,!L;NC;!ronically sensiti0es the reader to the ower of ,!L;NC;

*nteni'y the ma$nitude o' the iue thatthreaten man6ind and propel him to e=tinction

wa6en in him the neceity to ta6e ur$enttep

to top the imminent annihilation


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