Pablo Neruda

Rising from the narrow country stretching along South America's western edge: Chile Pablo Neruda is a  poet-diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles such as erotically charged love poems as in his collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair, surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political manifestos.  

Neruda is often considered the national poet of Chile, and his works have been popular and influential worldwide. The Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language", and the critic Harold Bloom included Neruda as one of the writers central to the Western tradition in his book The Western Canon. Neruda always wrote in green ink as it was his personal color of hope. 

To me reading his poem for the first wasn't enough to understand the deep meanings hidden inside each line. Neruda using simple language makes an incredible writing, which at first might confuse the reader, but observing carefully gives the new craze for poems. Even after english not being his mother tongue Neruda has made a outstanding contribution to english literature. 

Common themes found in Pablo Neruda's poems include love, sex, history, nature and daily life. Neruda even wrote about ordinary objects such as onions, lemons and cats. The themes of Neruda's poetry evolved throughout his years of writing and greatly reflected the changes in his thinking and life experiences.

Neruda's father opposed his son's interest in writing; nevertheless Neruda found support in his school teachers. At age 15 Neruda met Gabriella Mistral who was a teacher in the local girl's school. She introduced him to the work of European poets and particularly Russian literature which influenced him the most. With all the support he got from his teachers Neruda started publishing his work but wanted to keep it a secret from his father so adopted the pen name which later became his official name " Pablo Neruda". Even after facing a lot of challenges throughout his journey Neruda never gave up writing, which shows us the passion he had for writing. All his effort has paid him with the noble prize for Literature. Even after his death in 1973, Pablo still continues to lives through his poems and all his encouraging work which he written.