Pablo Neruda

THE RADICAL GENIUS IN PABLO NERUDA

IN COMMENDATION OF NERUDA

As intensely acknowledged as he is , Pablo Neruda led a personal political and literary life in extremely controversial , epic proportions . Pablo Neruda 's destiny to become a most revered recognized , reputed literary genuius started to manifest at a very young age of 13 . He had already works published at the age of 19

Many literary enthusiasts , critics , academicians have translated Neruda 's works into so many languages . As one of the most influential and greatest poets of this modern age and

time , Neruda 's writing styles have been noted for its varied tones style temper . The texture of his poetry is rich and extensive . Classifying and summarizing his works can be difficult

Pablo Neruda has indeed written some of the best poetry of our era because his literature celebrates love , nature , and human experience 'He was once referred as the Picasso of poetry , alluding to his protean ability to be always in the vanguard of change . And he himself has often alluded to his personal struggle with his own tradition , to his constant need to search for a new system in each book ' [Rene de Costa in The Poetry of Pablo Neruda , 1979] ( Pablo Neruda , 2000

Thus , Pablo Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971

IN REFLECTION OF NERUDA

Born in Parral , Chile as an only child to Jose del Carmen Reyes and Rosa Basoalto on July 12 , 1904 , Neruda 's real name is Neftaln Ricardo Reyes Basoalto . He changed his name because his father did not want him to write and become a poet

Neruda 's mother Rosa died when he was just 2 months old . When he turned 2 years old , his father Jose married Trinidad Candia Marverde which Neruda categorically considered as his mother . However , Trinidad and Jose has already had Rodolfo , their son born in 1895 - way before Neruda was born . And eventually , his father Jose also sired in 1907 a daughter , Laura , from another woman (Aurelia Tolra . Laura was later on adopted by Thus , Neruda 's family as he started awakening to from his young mind is composed of an elder brother Rodolfo , a younger sister Laura , his father Jose and his Ma 'madre ' Trinidad . To which , he saw a simple , poor , quiet , lifestyle

He graduated high school from Temuco High School and pursued . studies in Pegagogy and French in the Unviersity of Chile . From a very early age , Neruda was determined to pursue his literary and writing skills But his father was defiant in stopping him . Therefore , he decided to write using the pen name Pablo Neruda ' - which he eventually adopted as his legal name . He go the name Neruda ' from a Czechoslovakian writer and poet , Jan Neruda . Pablo Neruda narrates in his Memoir

When I was fourteen , my father was always at me about my literary endeavors . He didn 't like the idea of having a son who was a poet . To cover up the publication of my...