I am doing a report on this little Chilean poet and I need a hand.


I need three major influences on his poetry
I was thinking I could use death? (death of his mother, and his daughter was mortally ill...) it seemed to have impacted him (and some of his poetry)
politics? he was a socialist...
I would use women? he wrote a lot about women (the 20 love songs/poems?)

I just really need help

thanks!

ALSO if anybody could please explain to me what his obsession with nautical/aquatic life is?
he writes often of the ocean and lives in that boat house.

my heart skipped a beat when I saw a reply
thank you thank you thank you
I am going to reread his poetry with that in mind now! And oh... you've helped me very much thank you!

hehehe :p
I will appreciate it! Especially when helped in such a way, I cannot fail this class!

gladly!

Really though, I don't know as much about him as I should I know he was born in Chile and was a Socialist and very well liked, his mother died when he was two months old and his daughter was ill (and he wrote a very beautiful poem to her because of this) and he loved many women and was generally well liked
and he lived in a boat house (not.. one on the water but a house that resembled a boat)

some of the really good ones can be sort of lengthy, I will look through these books to find some short ones

Ocean

Body more immaculate than a wave,
salt washing away its own line,
and the brilliant bird
flying without ground roots

I Will Come Back

Some time, man or woman, traveler,
afterwards, when I am not alive,
look here, look for me here
between the stones and the ocean,
in the light storming
in the foam
Look here, look for me here,
for here is where I shall come, saying nothing,
no voice, no mouth, pure
here I shall be again the movement
of the water, of
its wild heart,
here I shall be both lost and found -
here I shall be perhaps both stone and silence

I couldn't tell you if you were off though it sounds quite nice and accurate

Yes... Perhaps I shall provide a link to his poetry? You don't have to though, I really appreciate all of the help you have given me thus far!


Pablo Neruda Poems and Poetry

that is true :p but I don't want to totally miss the meaning which I tend to do. Poetry (though I do really love it) makes me nervous.


That's a fantastic poem! He is so good and I just don't want to muck up all of this beautiful writing that he did with mediocre responses to it and poorly drawn lines between it and his own life


There is one poem I particularly like and there is a part that helps so much with this, it goes:


Only with kisses and red poppies can I love you,
or eyelashes, or melted pianos,
or dreams that bubble up from my heart,
dusty dreams that gallop like black riders,
dreams full of hurry and disfortune.


and another that goes:

I pass by peaceably, with eyes, with shoes,
with fury and forgetting,
I cruise the offices and orthopedic stores,
and patios where clothes hang from a wire,
where underwear, towels and blouses cry drawn out,
obscene tears


maybe it wasn't right to take these stanzas out of their respective poems and show them to you (though it is most convenient, these poems are quiet long!) but I think they're really beautiful and I hope you think so too.

Yes! That is what really amazes me about poets, and Pablo especially. I have a trouble though where I appreciate it for how beautiful it sounds and the things it makes me see but am unable to comprehend (or at least to put into words what I am understanding) what it is about.
Which I guess is only a trouble when given assignments like the one I am in now!

They really are which I think is something I really like about poets like him (I guess I would throw him in the same group as Walt Whitman but am unsure of who else :p)