Alex &+Valeria

= Pa﻿blo ﻿Neruda =



**Pablo Neruda's Sonnet:**
== ** Sonnet﻿ XXV ** ==

 Before I loved ﻿ you, love,  nothing was my ﻿ own:  I wavered through the ﻿  streets,  among Objec ﻿ ts:  Nothing mattered or h ﻿ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">ad a name:  <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> The world was made of ai﻿r, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">which waited. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">I knew rooms full of <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">﻿ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">ashes, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Tunnels where the <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">﻿ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">moon lived,  <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rough warehouses that gro <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">﻿ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">wled 'get lost',  <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Questions that insisted i <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">﻿ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">n the sand. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Everything was empty, dead, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">﻿ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">mute, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Fallen abandoned, and de <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">﻿ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">cayed: Inconceivably alien  <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">, it all Belonged to some <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">﻿ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">one else - to no one:  <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Till your beauty and y <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">﻿ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">our poverty  <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Filled the autumn plentiful wit <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">﻿ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0a1e52; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">h gifts. Alex's Sonnet:

Pablo Neruda's Ode:
<span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #800080; display: block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Ode To Chestnut <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #800080; display: block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;"> <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #800080; display: block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; vertical-align: super;">** From bristly foliage **
 * you fell **
 * complete, polished ﻿ wood, gleaming mahogany, **
 * as perfect **
 * as a violin newly **
 * born of the treetops, **
 * that falling **
 * offers its sealed-in gifts, **
 * the hidden sweetness **
 * that grew in secret **
 * amid birds and leaves, **
 * a model of form, **
 * kin to wood and flour, **
 * an oval instrument **
 * that holds within it **
 * intact delight, an edible rose. **
 * In the heights you abandoned **
 * the sea-urchin burr **
 * that parted its spines **
 * in the light of the chestnut tree; **
 * through that slit **
 * you glimpsed the world, **
 * birds **
 * bursting with syllables, **
 * starry **
 * dew **
 * below, **
 * the heads of boys **
 * and girls, **
 * grasses stirring restlessly, **
 * smoke rising, rising. **
 * You made your decision, **
 * chestnut, and leaped to earth, **
 * burnished and ready, **
 * firm and smooth **
 * as the small breasts **
 * of the islands of America. **
 * You fell, **
 * you struck **
 * the ground, **
 * but **
 * nothing happened, **
 * the grass **
 * still stirred, the old **
 * chestnut sighed with the mouths **
 * of a forest of trees, **
 * a red leaf of autumn fell, **
 * resolutely, the hours marched on **
 * across the earth. **
 * Because you are **
 * only **
 * a seed, **
 * chestnut tree, autumn, earth, **
 * water, heights, silence **
 * prepared the germ, **
 * the floury density, **
 * the maternal eyelids **
 * that buried will again **
 * open toward the heights **
 * the simple majesty of foliage, **
 * the dark damp plan **
 * of new roots, **
 * the ancient but new dimensions **
 * of another chestnut tree in the earth. **

Valeria's Ode:
Ode to Angels At twilight, A hole up in the coal clouds appears, A light shines through like a flashlight in a dark forest, Hymens and church bells ring, Softly, A light so pure from above The rain, Stops completely, As quick as it came the hole closes like a clam, But, Not before an angel appears. Gliding across the night sky with gowns so clean , The mysterious glowing figure contrasting against the midnight black, The halo floating above her head, The ocean gray eyes scanning below for what people wish, The bleach blonde hair being whipped by the summer air, Eavesdropping on a house in the middle of nowhere, Watching as the children hop into their beds, The angel waiting and protecting, The children think and speak the nightly prayer, The angel waits and listens to what they give grace before once more soaring above their home. Being so high that the moon seems a stretch away, The white from the moon is like soot next to an angel, The shimmers of light from the moon appear upon the water, Skimming across the water, She admires her own reflection, Her background of the stars behind her remind her of the Twinkle in her grey clouded eyes, She expands her wings to a color so indescribable, The hush whispering of the forest beside her stops in admiration. Up above, The light reshines, Upon the frigid, old, dusty earth The hymens and choirs resound, Signaling for her to come Home, Floating above and once inside her world She gazes at the world below her, One, last, time, Before being shut out again. <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #875203; display: block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">** ﻿ **

Biography
by Alex Chapman

Pablo Neruda, originally Ricardo Eliecer Nefital Reyes Basalto, was born on July 12, 1904 in Chile. Weeks later, Pablos mom died, making the father in charge. Pablo started writing poetry as a child, but his father did not like the poetry he was writing. As a child, Pablo attended Temuco boys school. There he learned literature. Pablos first book was written when he was 19 years old, and it was called Crepusculario ("Twilight"). Since his father disproved of Pablos poetry, Pablo used Pablo Neruda as a cover name. When he was a young adult, Pablo was involved with comnunism because of his influencing writing, but had to go into hiding because of it. When Pablo was an adult, He had 3 marriages. The first two, with Maria Antonio Haagenar Vogelzandang and Delia Del Carril, ended with divorce. He married Matilde Vervtia in 1952, which lasted to death. Duing those years, he won many awards such as the Nobel Prize for Liturature in 1971, The International (1950), Lenin (1953), and Stalin (1953) peace prizes. In 1973, Pablo Neruda died of leukemia at the age of 69. He is still remembered today as one of the best hispanic poets.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Influence:
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">By Valeria Rodriguez

<span style="color: #300808; font-family: Georgia,serif;">From the age of 10 Paul began his poetic career by writing the simplest of poems. At the age of 13 began to send them to other people. His family greatly disapproved of his writing forcing him to get a pen name, Pablo Neruda. He changed his name after [|Czech] poet [|Jan Neruda]. Throughout his young poetic life he was encouraged only by the principal of the Girls School in his town, [|Gabriela Mistral] (Gabriella would later on in her life win the 1945 Nobel Literature Prize.) She encouraged his fascination and was his first “fan”. Later on in 1933 he met a real time poet called [|Federico Garcia Lorca] in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lorca help him to achive fame and real success. Throughout Neruda’s life he always looked up to Walt Whitman. He was such a fan that he even wrote a poem about Whitman and said //“I, a poet who writes in Spanish, learned more from Walt Whitman than from Cervantes”.// Another time when Neruda showed devotion was when a carpenter asked who Walt Whitman was in a picture Neruda Responded //“He is my grandfather”.// <span style="color: #300808; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Pablo Neruda was a poet who wrote in intense detail and had a large vocabulary. He wrote in many different styles but succeeded mostly in Odes and Sonnets. His most famous piece was “If You Forget Me”. Neruda was like a rebel because wrote his odes without rhyme. An ode in general has a set of rules to be considered an ode such as following special patterned rhymed lines. Pablo simply ignored that. This is what made his Ode style so unique and special.

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