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'Poetry' by Pablo Neruda deftly depicts the speaker's spiritual fulfillment through poetry, tracing the journey from his first encounter with poetic inspiration to an eventual metaphysical understanding of the cosmos, represented in evocative and nuanced cosmic imagery.
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 variety and beauty of his verse.
Neruda's poetry is characterized by its passionate and sensual language, its engagement with political and social issues, and its celebration of love, nature, and everyday life. His poems often explore themes of longing, desire, loss, and the search for meaning and identity in a rapidly changing world.
‘Poetry’ by Pablo Neruda captures the moment of the speaker’s first encounter with poetic inspiration that led to a spiritual awakening. This poem is part of Neruda's collection, 'Memorial de Isla Negra' or 'Isla Negra: A Notebook.'
Pablo Neruda is one of the most influential and widely read 20th-century poets of the Americas. “No writer of world renown is perhaps so little known to North Americans as Chilean poet Pablo Neruda,” observed New York Times Book Review critic Selden Rodman.
One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII. By Pablo Neruda. Translated By Mark Eisner. Share. I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz, or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as one loves certain obscure things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
A love poem of loss and longing, translated by W. S. Merwin, from Neruda's collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. The poem explores the depths of passion, sorrow and oblivion in the memory of a woman.
