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Explore the love poems, sonnets, and odes of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. From his famous 'If You Forget Me' to his humorous 'Ode to My Socks', discover the best of his lyrical works.
Pablo Neruda is considered one of the most important Latin American poets of the 20th century. His work continues to be widely read and studied today, inspiring new generations of poets and readers alike.
Jan 18, 2022 · Learn about the life and poetry of Pablo Neruda, one of the most influential and widely read 20th-century poets of the Americas. Explore his themes, styles, and political views in his odes, love poems, and Residencia en la tierra cycle.
Read a translated poem by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who expresses his love in a unique and mysterious way. He compares his love to a plant that carries the light of flowers within itself, and to a form of love that is not nor are you.
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Acid and sword blade: the fragrance of plum in the pathways: tooth’s sweetmeat of kisses, power and spilth on the fingers, the yielding erotic of pulps, hayricks and threshing floors, clandestine recesses that tempt through the vastness of houses; bolsters asleep in the past, the bitter green valley, seen from above, from the glasses’ concealment; ...
Ailing in Vera Cruz, I remember southern weather, weather of the fleet fish in the heavens of water, silvered, in my own country. Loncoche, Lonquimay, Carahue, large on the summits, circled by roots and serenities, chaired upon platforms of rawhide and timber. South is a stallion, submerging, in the gradual trees and the dew, garlanded: green muzzl...
That time when I moved among happenings in the midst of my mournful devotions; that time when I cherished a leaflet of quartz, at gaze in a lifetime’s vocation. I ranged in the markets of avarice where goodness is bought for a price, breathed the insensate miasmas of envy, the inhuman contention of masks and existences. I endured in the bog-dweller...
I would know nothing, dream nothing: who will teach my non-being how to be, without striving to be? How can the water endure it? What sky have the stones dreamed? Immobile, until those migrations delay at their apogee and fly on their arrows toward the cold archipelago. Unmoved in its secretive life, like an underground city, so the days may glide ...
Read selected poems by the Chilean Nobel laureate in literature, Pablo Neruda, in English and Spanish. Explore his themes of nature, love, politics, and identity in his verses.
A poem by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, translated by William O'Daly, about his love for Matilde Urrutia. The poem expresses his longing, grief and gratitude for her presence and absence in his life.
Explore 25+ of the best poems by Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet and diplomat. Learn about his themes, emotions, forms, genres and biography through detailed analyses and ratings.
