Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda is a famous Chilean poet, poesia in Spanish, politician, and diplomat who supported the Communist party and served in diplomatic posts around the world. Pablo Neruda’s most famous work is Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada, or Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
==Early Life, Education, and First Writings==
Pablo Neruda was born Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto on July 12, 1904 in Parral, Chile.The Nobel Foundation, 1971 His father, José del Carmen Reyes Morales, worked for the railroad and his mother, Rosa Basoalto, worked as a local school teacher and died only two months after her son’s birth. Neruda’s father moved them to Temuco, Chile. There he married Trinidad Candia Marverde. José met her previously and she bore him a son named Rodolfo, nine years prior to their marriage.Pablo Neruda published his first work
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A few weeks later he went into hiding with his wife after arrest threats. They spent the next 13 months moving from one supporter’s house to another. The Chilean government removed him from office and banned the Communist Party in 1948. In March 1949, he fled to Argentina on horseback over the Andes Mountains. He took a trip to Mexico later that year and met Matilde Urrutia, a Chilean singer who cared for him when he took ill. They started an affair. The González Videla government weakened in 1952 due to corruption, and the Chilean Socialist Party gained more ground. They wanted to nominate Salvador Allende again for the presidential election that year, and wanted Neruda there to support his campaign. Pablo Neruda returned to his homeland and his wife, Delia del Carril, in August. When he rejoined her in Chile, their marriage fell apart. Especially after she learned of Matilde Urrutia. They ended their marriage officially in 1955.Feinstein, 2004 ==Later Years, Death and