PABLO NERUDA

HIS LIFE

• Pablo was born on July 12 1907
• He lived in chile all his childhood
• He lived in chile all his childhood
• He was inspired by Gabriel Mistral
• He was inspired by Gabriel Mistral
• He wanted to become a french teacher
• He wanted to become a french teacher
• Died in September 3 1973

KEY EVENTS

• Moved to Santiago to go to school
• Moved to Santiago to go to school
• Was inspired by communism
• Was inspired by communism
• He wrote poems for big communist leaders
• Spanish civil war was happening
• Spanish civil war was happening
• Ran for president, but quit to support another

FAMOUS WORKS

• He wrote...
• He wrote...
• A dog has died
• A dog has died
• Always
• A lemon
• A lemon
• Many of his poems were about love, fairness, and random stuff

By Pablo Neruda
Out of lemon flowers
loosed
on the moonlight, love’s
lashed and insatiable
essences,
sodden with fragrance,
the lemon tree’s yellow
emerges,
Sthe lemons
move down
from the tree’s planetarium

Delicate merchandise!
The harbors are big with it-
bazaars
for the light and the
barbarous gold.
We open
the halves
of a miracle,
and a clotting of acids
brims
into the starry
divisions:
creation’s
original juices,
irreducible, changeless,
alive:
so the freshness lives on
in a lemon,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb.

Cutting the lemon
the knife
leaves a little cathedral:
alcoves unguessed by the eye
that open acidulous glass
to the light; topazes
riding the droplets,
altars,
aromatic facades.

So, while the hand
holds the cut of the lemon,
half a world
on a trencher,
the gold of the universe
wells
to your touch:
a cup yellow
with miracles,
a breast and a nipple
perfuming the earth;
a flashing made fruitage,
the diminutive fire of a planet.

MEANING

• Its a random poem
• He was probably drunk and high
• Saw a lemon on the table