Neftali Pablo Neruda's Life

Neftali Ricardo Eliecer Reyes Basoalto known by his pen name Pablo Neruda was born on July 12, 1904, in Parral, Chile. One month after he was born his mother, Rosa Basoalto died of Tuberculosis. Two years after, his father, Jose Del Carmen Reyes Morales moved to Temuco, Chile, and get married to Trinidad Cambia Marvede, who became in a real mother to Pablo, who described her as a sweet and diligent woman, had a pleasant sense of humor and an active and indefatigable kindness. His father was the driver of a train that carried stones. He used to take him to the wild heart of Boroa, Chile, where Pablo learned to love nature, and the land that saw him born. This was the inspiration of poems like La Araucaria, Ode to the apple (extract), and La Infinita (the infinite) where he refers to the trees, fruits, animals and its beauty: “Weeping, eternity of water, mountain of scales, ray of horseshoes, your tormented house is built / with petals of pure geology” he wrote about the little thing that most of us ignore today.

Neruda 's even wrote poems about war as “Los Enemigos” ( the enemies): “I do not

On July 18, 1917, he published his first article in “La Mañana” (the morning) newspaper called “Entusiasmo y Perseverancia” (Enthusiasm and Perseverance) signed by Neftalí Reyes, this was his first publication. One year later, on November 30, the “Corre Vuela de Santiago” magazine, it published this poem “Mis Ojos” (my eyes) which it was inspired by the girl from the letter “I was yours, you were mine. What else? Together we did a bend in the path where love passed” he wrote.

By the end of the year, he published thirteen more poems in the same magazine using his pen name Pablo Neruda, the main reason why he did choose that name was that his father did not allow Neftalí to be a poet, that is when he decided to use a pen name. One day he read about an artist, badalas and love songs singer and writer, and loved by Chile, he found the name that would be part of the poetry