Pablo Neruda’s
POEMS
FIRST BOOK IN POEM
Crepusculario (“Twilight
”)
Was published in
1923.
The poem’s, subtle and elegant, were in
the tradition of Symbolist poetry,
or rather its Hispanic version,
Modernismo.
Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion
desesperada(“Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair”)
(1924)
It is said to be tender, melancholy,
sensuous, and passionate.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
I. Body of a woman
II. The Light Wraps You
III. Ah Vastness of Pines
XI. Almost Out Of The Sky
XII. Your Breast Is Enough
XIII. I Have Gone Marking
XIV. Every Day You Play
XV. I Like For You To Be Still
XVI. In My Sky At Twilight
XVII. Thinking, Tangling Shadows
XVIII. Here I Love You
XIX. Girl Lithe and Tawny
XX. Tonight I Can Write
The Song of Despair
IV. The Morning Is Full
V. So That You Will Hear Me
VI. I Remember You As You Were
VII. Leaning Into The Afternoons
VIII. White Bee
IX. Drunk With Pines
X. We Have Lost Even
Veinte poemas
Robert Clemens [Saturday Review]
- “This established him at the outset as a
frank, sensuous spokesman for love.”
Rene de Costa [The Poetry of Pablo Neruda]
-“Traditionally, love poetry has equated
woman with nature. Neruda took this
established mode of comparison and raised
it to a cosmic level, making woman into a
veritable
force
of
the
universe.”
Residencia en la Tierra
(Residence on Earth)
First book of Residencia en la Tierra was
Published on 1933.
Widely celebrated as containing “some of
Neruda’s most extraordinary and powerful
poetry.”
Residencia en la tierra, 1925–
1931 (1933; Residence on Earth)
In this book Neruda moves beyond the lucid,
conventional lyricism of Twenty Love Poems,
abandoning normal syntax, rhyme, and
stanzaic organization to create a highly
personalized poetic technique.
His personal and collective...