Pablo Neruda. Photo: Internet
To have the literary experience of going through some of Pablo Neruda's poems, is to encourage the desire to return to his encounter, is to find in love the different, the sensitive, the carnal and sublime. Nefatalí Reyes Basoalto (real name of the Chilean poet), lived as a man of his time, marked by the anguish of his people and human pain. We discover Neruda through his creations as a being who gives life, emotion and beauty to everything he describes.
He was Senator of the Republic and Consul. He visited cities like Paris, Burma, Buenos Aires, Tokyo and Mexico City, among others. He also integrated the ranks of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. He was a militant activist. Poet, diplomat and politician. Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. His works include ''Crepusculario'' and ''Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada''. With the exquisite power of the word his metaphors were the most intense verbs to name all that could be named.
The whole land was his residence. All the sea. And all the bells that mourned his death those black days when Chile, his country, suffered the humiliation of a coup d 'etat that still bleeds in the collective memory. The general sinister Pinochet ordered the imprisonment of Neruda's words, words that came from the ocean, became free and were multiplied by the earth. He ordered the words of the Captain of the verses be tortured until they were disappeared. It was not so. Like a dazzling humble drop of sea salt, Neruda's verses will continue to be born until the last memory of the world. So is Neruda, still walking along the streets he loved.
