Essay
Poesia y Paz: Politics in Pablo Neruda's Late and Posthumus Poetry
UNKNOWN
10/2007
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/1106
Abstract
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), and Nobel laureate poet (1971) from Chile, did not begin his literary career as a political writer. It was only after several years abroad and his experience during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) that he fully embraced the political theory of Communism. Engaging in political activism did not come without personal cost to Neruda, for at one point he had to flee Chile and live in exile for openly challenging the government, and he was considered a suspicious character by other nations. However, the message was always the most important element ofhis poetry. Neruda tried to embody the voice ofthe common man and give lyrical worth to the simple objects that surround us. Nevertheless, his political activism often overshadowed his actual poetry.
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- Title
- Poesia y Paz: Politics in Pablo Neruda's Late and Posthumus Poetry
- Creators
- Rachel Anna Neff (Author)
- Contributors
- Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi (Supervisor) - Washington State University, Arts and Sciences, College of
- Academic Unit
- Undergraduate Student Research Excellence Award
- Series
- UNKNOWN
- Identifiers
- 99900502068301842
- Copyright
- openAccess ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Essay