Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda is one of the celebrated poets of the modern world . In his lifetime , he has created so many poems , marking major events in his life . His real name is Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto . At an early age of thirteen , he wrote Entusiasmo y Perseverancia , his first poem (Famous Poets and Poems , 2006

He adapted the pen name Pablo Neruda ' in 1920 , when he became a contributor to the literary journal , Selva Astral ' in honor of Jan Neruda , a Czechoslovak poet (Famous Poets and Poems , 2006 ) His first published book was the

Crepusculario ' which was mainly about the Hispanic Modernismo Movement (Sanford , 2002 ) It was followed by the famous Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada ' These publications were made while he was studying French and Pedagogy in the University of Chile in Santiago

Poem 20 of Veinte poemas ' starts with

Tonight I write the saddest lines (poemhunter

It speaks about his love for a woman that he has lost , and his soul craves for her . Pablo Neruda is known to be a womanizer , and his poems speak about his many of his affairs . Passionately , he describes most of the women in his poems , just like in poem 20 , where he states

How could one not love her great still eyes

To hear the immense night , even more immense without her 'I no longer lover her , that 's certain , but maybe I love her

These lines have enthralled Neruda enthusiasts from all over the world even making translations , from Yiddish to Chinese (Sanford , 2003

The most famous line would be Love is so short , forgetting so long His love poems are described to be breathless and exhortative (Sanford

In the movie Patch Adams ' by Robin Williams , Love Sonnet 17 (poemhunter ) was delivered by Patch Adams to his girlfriend , who tragically dies afterward because of a psychotic patient murdering her I love you without knowing how , or when , or from where ' These words are the expression of how powerful Neruda wields his words of love

Pablo Neruda became an honorary consul of countries like Burma , Ceylon Java , Singapore , Buenos Aires , Barcelona , and Madrid (Famous Poets and Poems , 2006 ) He was horrified with the civil war plaguing Chile , and during this period , he wrote a number of esoteric , surrealist , poems that described death , social decay , and isolation (Sanford , 2003 ) One of these is I 'm Explaining a Few Things ' which he did after the murder of his friend Garcia Lorca in 1936 (Swans , 2002

The poem starts with the of a suburb of Madrid as a place with bells and clocks and trees ' his house being called the house of flowers because in every cranny geraniums burst ' It goes on until his grief shows in the lines

one morning the bonfires leapt out of the earth

devouring human beings

The person whom he calls Rafael , Raul , the writer believes , is a metaphor for his countrymen and Frederico (Garcia Lorca ) his `brother in the poem , which he remembers as...