Neruda English 2
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Poet and States Man1904 - 1973
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1971
C h i l e
Pablo Neruda
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Parral
1904
The son of Rosa Naftal Basoalto and Jos delCarmen Reyes Morales, Neftal Ricardo Reyes
Basoalto (Pablo Neruda) is born the 12th
of July in Parral, Chile.
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1920
Temuco
He attended the Boys Schoolin Temuco where he studied
humanities.
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1922 He contributed to theStudent Federationmagazine Claridad.
1923In August, the first editionof Crepusculario is
published.
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1921
Santiago
He moved to Santiago tostudy in the Teachers
Institute to become a Frenchteacher, and won First Prize inthe contest sponsored by theNational Student Association.
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I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."
The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
On nights like this, I held her in my arms.I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.
She loved me, sometimes I loved her.How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.
To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.
The Saddest Poem
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What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.The night is full of stars and she is not with me.
That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.My soul is lost without her.
As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.My heart searches for her and she is not with me.
The same night that whitens the same trees.We, we who were, we are the same no longer.
I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.
Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she oncebelonged to my kisses.Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.
I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.Love is so short and oblivion so long.
Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,my soul is lost without her.
Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her.
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1924 1925 1926Twenty poems of loveand one desperate song
Pginas escogidasde Anatole France, with
prologue and translationby PabloNeruda
He edited the magazineCaballo de Bastos andwrites for various literarypublications and thenewspaper La Nacin.
El habitante y su esperanza
Anillos
Second edition ofCrepusculario
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1927-1932
Neruda serves as honorary Consul for Chile in Asia. During this
period of great loneliness, he wroteResidencia en la tierra.
BurmaSingapore
JavaCeylon
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Madrid
Barcelona
1934-1937
Neruda is named Consul in Spain, where he meets the greatpoets Garca Lorca, Cesar Vallejo, and Miguel Hernandez.
Pars
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The Spanish Civil War and the murderof his good friend poet Garca Lorca,deeply affect him and motivate him tojoin the Republican movement,first in Spain, and later in France,where he starts working on his
collection of poemsEspaa en el Corazn.
1937
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Neruda is appointed Chileanconsul in Paris, and isresponsible for saving thelives of thousands ofSpaniards, who he transportsin a ship from Francos prison
camps to new lives in Chile.
1939 - 1940
While Consul General inMexico, he rewrites hisCanto General de Chile,transforming it into an epicpoem about the whole SouthAmerican continent, itsnature, its people and itshistorical destiny.
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Neruda returns to Chile, and in1945 he is elected senator of theRepublic, also joining theCommunist Party of Chile.
When President Gonzlez
Videla's violently suppresses astrike of miners in 1947, SenatorPablo Neruda protests.
1943
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1948In the Chilean Senate, he gives a speech later publishedwith the title I Accuse. As a result, the president
orders his arrest. In hiding inside Chile, he begins towrite Canto General.
1949After more than a year living in secret, he manages toflee Chile, crossing the southern Andes through thickforest on horseback, to Argentina.
He begins to live in exile in various countries.
1950Along with Picasso and other artists, he receives theInternational Peace Prize.
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1955 He moves to Isla Negra on the coast south ofSantiago, living with Matilde Urrutia in a househe calls La Chascona.
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When the political parties of theleft unify behind the socialistcandidate and personal friendDr. Salvador Allende, Nerudawithdraws from the presidential
race.
1970
President Salvador Allende selectsNeruda to be Chiles Ambassador
to France.1971
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