Five Decades: Poems 1925 - 1970 is a bilingual collection of poetry by Pablo Neruda, the early 1970’s Nobel Prize winner who influenced a lot of . His love poems are environmentally instructive, and his political poems are the work of a man, and brutally intelligent as he was informative. Ben Belitt has drawn the 138 collections of poems in Five Decades from all of Neruda's. However, I have only read from Neruda’s major writings including the following: the “Residence on Earth”, “General Song,” “Elemental Odes,” “Voyages and Homecomings,” “A Hundred Love Sonnets,” and “Skystones.”Neruda writes numerous poems that embody the struggles of his life time. One specific poem that he wrote was How Spain Was. This poem caught my attention. It talks mostly about how Spain is growing as an empire. However, Neruda goes on to tell how Spain has developed, as the years go by Spain has caused great terror to the region at which Neruda inhabits at the time. By Neruda writing this poem about Spain he …show more content…
After addressing how Spain was in the beginning, he immediately explains how Spain have turn from this weak nation to this dominant strong nation. Neruda writes’ “An eyrie for eagles, flat-landed, a silence under the thong of the weathers” (Page 59). Neruda uses personification to express how Spain has grown it took control of its nations. He uses “an eyrie for eagles” to show how the government has claimed its nations. An eyrie is a nest in which it is high build off the ground and for an eagle it is a massive creature that is very powerful. So, the eyrie for eagles is set to the the government that has took control over the nation and is now declaring a new start for Spain. It also says “the thong of weather.” This is especially significant because at the beginning of the poem “Bone-dry” was used to emphasize how the Spain intruded into Chile. Neruda feels really much hurt and disgusted by the