![]() ![]() He was removed from office and the Communist Party was banned. In the later years of the 1940s, Neruda was threatened with arrest and went into hiding alongside his wife. In March of 1945, he was elected Communist Senator for the northern provinces of Antofagasta and Tarapacá. Three years later he returned to Chile and wrote a long poem titled, Alturas de Macchu Picchu and the epic poem, Canto General, a work which has been hailed as a masterpiece. His next posting took him to Mexico where he married again. He moved to Delia del Carril in France where he was appointed special counsel for Spanish emigrants in Paris. As a result of his new politics, he lost his position as consul. He supported the Spanish Republic and in 1938 published España en el corazón, or Spain in Our Hearts. He was becoming more and more political as the years of the war progressed and turned him towards communism. Neruda also had a daughter during this time, Malva Marina Reyes. He eventually became the consul in Madrid. He would soon meet and marry his first wife, Marijke Antonieta Hagenaar Vogelzang.ĭuring the years of the Spanish Civil War Neruda was assigned to diplomatic posts in Buenos Aires and Barcelona, Spain. His economic situation forced him to take on an honorary consulship in Rangoon, the capital of the British colony of Burma. In 1926 he published the collection, Tentativa del hombre infinit, or The Attempt of the Infinite Man, and the novel El habitante y su esperanza, or The Inhabitant and His Hope. Unfortunately, the sales did not translate into an economic gain for the writer, he continued to live in poverty. Neruda had established an international reputation for himself at the age of twenty. It was followed by Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, or Twenty Love Poems and A Desperate Song. It was in 1923 that he published his first book of poetry, Crepusculario, or Book of Twilights. It was his initial goal to become a teacher but he soon began spending more of his time writing poetry alongside the well-known writer Eduardo Barrios. When Neruda was sixteen he moved to Santiago to study French at the Universidad de Chile. He addresses someone who is stuck in a “house or office” and then spends time considering what his role is, as a poet or writer, in bringing joy or at least peace to others. ‘The Poet’s Obligation’ is an interesting poem in which the speaker describes the obligations he feels ease the internal suffering of others.any “shadow” has disappeared from their love and now he’s determined to spend the rest of his life with her. The love he’s surrounded by has made it seem as though his lover is far beyond anything anyone else could ever aspire to be. He also spends time discussing the ways that his life has been improved by their relationship. ‘Every Day You Play’describes the all-consuming love a speaker has for his lover.His desire is at the forefront of his mind as he uses symbols, metaphors, and similes to describe her. This sexual poem describes all the things that the speaker is missing about his lover. ‘ Sonnet XI’is a deeply sensuous love poem that compares a speaker’s desire to the hunger of a prowling puma.His desperation grows as the poem progresses until, in the end, he tells her that he’ll wander the earth looking for her if she leaves him. He hopes that she won’t “go far off” as he has no idea how to live without her. IN it, the speaker plea with his lover, asking her not to abandon him to live out the rest of his life alone on earth. ‘Don’t Go Far Off’ is another one of Neruda’s best love poems.He tells the reader that he doesn’t love his wife like one loves beautiful objects. The fourteen lines speak on the poet’s complex and yet perfectly simple, love for his wife. The poem also goes by its sonnet number–17. ![]() It is also considered one of the best love poems ever written. ‘I Don’t Love You’is certainly one of Neruda’s most famous poems. ![]()
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