Thursday, May 10, 2012

What to say about Neruda?

I liked Neruda because each of his poems were different from one another. For example, Tonight I Can Write... is basically a break-up poem. He love this girl, but he wants to get over her. All he can do at night is think of her, and yet at the end of the poem he can't admit that he loved her and vows to never write a poem about her again. Then he has very political poems like I'm Explaining a Few Things and Walking Around. In these poems, Neruda uses imagery to represent ideas, scenes, and people. Much of his political poetry revolved around his hardships through the Spanish Civil War. Finally, there is Neruda's work Ode to the Tomato. I like how in this poem, he takes something so mundane as a tomato, and explains how crucial it is to society in Chile. It's almost comical the imagery he uses. For example, "Too bad we must / assassinate; / a knife / plunges / into its living pulp." That's a great visual! Neruda's poetry, overall, was both intriguing and unique. I loved how much emphasis was put on his cultural background and how he used such vivid imagery to describe it.

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