Agenda Purpose Bio of Pablo Neruda Personal Connection Literary
Analysis Pre-Spanish Civil War Post-Spanish Civil War Later Years
Overview and Questions
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Purpose The purpose of my capstone is to analyze and connect
the poetry of Pablo Neruda to the historical events that surrounded
his life.
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Chronology 1904 Born Ricardo Eliecer Naftal March 1921 Moved to
Santiago 1923 Crepusculario appeared 1924 20 Poems of Love and a
Song of Despair published 1927 Named consul of Rangoon 1932 Returns
to Chile from time in the Orient 1934 Moves to Barcelona, named
Consul. 1936 Spanish Civil War initiates, Neruda starts writing
poems for Spain in our Hearts 1940 Returns to Chile 1945 Joined the
Communist Party and elected Senator for the provinces of Tarapac
and Antofagasta 1948 Chilean Supreme Court approves the impeachment
of Neruda as Senator 1950 First publish of Canto General made in
Mexico 1952 Returns to Chile from exile 1970 Nerudas efforts pay
off as Allende wins presidency. 1971 Granted the Nobel Prize of
Literature September 11, 1973 President Salvador Allende killed in
the military coup d'tat September 23, 1973 Pablo Neruda died
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Personal Connection While studying in Chile I visited all three
of Nerudas houses, and I took a Chilean poetry class. Before
leaving to Chile, my older brother gifted me a book of Pablo
Nerudas.
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Literary analysisLiterary analysis Pre Spanish Civil War
Crepusculario 20 love poems and a song of despair Residence I y II
Post Spanish Civil War Third Residence Canto General The Grapes and
the Wind Later Years Elemental Odes Estravagario Memorial of Isla
Negra
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Crepusculario Barrio sin luz / Neighborhood Without Light The
poetry of the things goes away or it isnt able to condense my life?
Yesterday- watching the last twilight- I was a patch of moss among
some ruins. The cities soot and revenges- the gray filth of the
suburbs, the office which hunches the backs, the boss of turbulent
eyes. Blood of a red sky over the hills blood on the streets and
the squares, pain of broken hearts, pus of loathings and of tears.
And here I am, sprouted up among the ruins, biting only all the
sorrows, as if the crying was a seed and I the sole furrow of the
earth. The social message is bitter and pessimistic a bleak vision
of the future. No solution is offered for injustice and misery.
(pg. 2) -Salvatore Bizzarro
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20 Poems of Love and a Song of Despair20 Poems of Love and a
Song of Despair Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost
discoverer, in you everything sank! It is the hour of departure,
the hard cold hour which the night fastens to all the timetables.
The rustling belt of the sea girdles the shore. Cold stars heave
up, black birds migrate. Deserted like the wharves at dawn. Only
the tremulous shadow twists in my hands. Oh farther than
everything. It is the hour of departure. Oh abandoned one. The
female body is idolized, exotic images are compared with nature.
For example, white hills for the body of a woman. Although love is
the main focus, he ends the book with despair.
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Residence on Earth I (1925-31) and II (1931-35) Unity Burial in
the East Only Death The poems from these two books were written
during Nerudas time as consul of Chile in the Orient. These times
were very lonely for him, and he explains his anguish from solitude
in these poems.
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Residence on Earth I y IIResidence on Earth I y II Unity There
is something dense, united, seated in the depths, / repeating its
number, its identical sign. / How clear is it that the stones have
touched time, / in their fine substance there is a smell of age /
and the water that the sea brings from salt and sleep. Only Death
Death is in the folding cots: / In the slow mattresses, in the
black blankets / she lives stretched out, and she suddenly blows: /
she blows a dark sound that swells the sheets, / and there are beds
sailing to a port / where she is waiting, dressed as an
admiral.
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Spanish Civil WarSpanish Civil War The war started in 1936,
when Neruda was Consul of Chile in Spain. For Pablo the war started
with the death of one of his best friends, the great poet Gabriel
Garca Lorca. Due to the brutality he witnessed, Neruda sided with
the Republic against the Fascists. From his early stages of despair
and solitude within the masses, this turning point pushes Neruda
toward hope for the future by banning together and finds that
misery loves company.
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Third Residence (1935-1945) The Furies and the Sorrows Meeting
Under New Flags Spain in Our Hearts I Explain a Few Things Battle
of the Jarama River Solar Ode to the Towns Army
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Battle of the Jarama River Between the earth and the drowned
platinum of olive orchards and Spanish dead, Jarama, pure dagger,
you have resisted the wave of the cruel. The bitter wheat of your
people was all bristling with metal and bones, formidable and
germinal like the noble land that they defended He shows us his
support for the people, the small towns, and the Republic against
the fascists in Spain. Furthermore, Neruda shows his support of a
violent revolution; a common characteristic of the communistic
ideology.
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Nerudas Forced ExileNerudas Forced Exile As Senator of two
northern provinces in Chile, Neruda openly spoke and published
articles in support of the copper and nitrate miners. He called out
and embarrassed the President at the time, Gabriel Gonzlez Videla.
Videla sent out for his arrest, and Pablo fled into exile while
finishing his book Canto General. Nerudas political ideologies lead
him to this exile, and a propagandist tone is found in Canto
General without taking away from his poetic artistry.
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Canto General (1938-1949)Canto General (1938-1949) I. The Lamp
on Earth II. Heights of Machu Picchu III. The Conquerors IV. The
Liberators V. The Betrayed Sand VI. America, I dont invoke your
name in vain VII. General Song of Chile VIII. The Land Called Juan
IX. Awaken the Woodcutter X. The Fugitive XI. The flowers of
Punitaqui XII. Rivers of Song XIII. Coral New Year for the Homeland
in Darkness XIV. The Great Ocean XV. I Am With Chile as the main
inspiration, Neruda gives a clear view on how he would like to see
the South American continent. All of the previous events he
witnessed up to this point influenced his ideology, and it is seen
in the social and political themes.
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X. The Fugitive XIII. American Sand, Solemn I dont feel alone
at night, in earths darkness. I am the people, innumerable peoples.
Death, martyrdom, shadows, ice, suddenly cover the seed. And the
town seems buried. But the corn returns to the earth From death we
are born.
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Later YearsLater Years Elemental Odes Memorial of Isla Negra
After a long road of solidarity through his adolescence, The
horrific events he lived through in Spain, and his hectic life in
politics, his later years brought a search of a more simple life;
the poetry of Neruda also finds simpler tones.
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Elemental Odes Ode to Socks Mara Mori brought me a pair of
socks Violent socks, my feet were two fish made of wool, two long
sharks sea blue, shot through by one golden thread, my feet were
honoured in this way by these heavenly socks. I resisted the mad
impulse to put them in a golden cage and each day give them
birdseed and pieces of pink melon. The moral of my ode is this:
beauty is twice beauty and what is good is doubly good when it is a
matter of two socks made of wool in winter.
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Overview Early Life Struggles Spanish Civil War Conflicts with
Chile His simpler form Nobel Prize of Literature, 1971
