Word: neruda
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...Nobel committee eventually forgot them; after being nominated numerous times, Neruda was awarded the Prize in Literature...
Convinced Marxist. The Spanish war also turned Neruda into a convinced Communist, though political engagement did not always inspire him to great writing: during the 1940s and 1950s, for instance, he produced a series of slavish, gushing poems in praise of Stalin...
...railroad worker, Neruda (real name: Ricardo Eliezer Neftali Reyes y Basoalto) was born in Parral, a small agricultural town in southern Chile. He started writing poetry at the age of eight, and persisted even though his book-hating father once destroyed his notebooks...
...Neruda's early work was rhapsodic and lushly romantic, at once Whitmanesque and surrealistic. During the 1930s, the style and tone of his verse abruptly changed. The catalyst was the Spanish Civil War, which Neruda witnessed as a Chilean consul in Spain...
Shocked by the brutality of the war, and traumatized by the death of his friend and fellow poet Federico Garcia Lorca, Neruda pruned from his own writing much of its detached symbolism. Instead, he began to turn out blunt, vertiginous, often satirical verse-poetry that Neruda once described as "written with blood...