Big I, Eye, Aye.

Bye, high school English class. I’ll miss you! It was a good one this year. It passed by way too fast.

Now, onto studying for 4 exams. Woo. Hoo.

And I suppose goodbye to this blog as well… I won’t be needing it anymore.

Name : Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto (name legally changed to Pablo Neruda later in life)

Pen name: Pablo Neruda

Birthdate: July 12, 1904

Birthplace: Parral, Chile

First published: At 13, Entusiasmo y Perseverancia.

Pen name of Pablo Neruda in memory of Czech poet Jan Neruda. Pablo took this name at the age of 16.

Always wrote in green, the color of hope.

Imagery of sea, eyes, and nature prominent in his poetry

School: French and pedagogy, University of Chile, Santiago.  

Nobel Prize for Literature – 1971

March 4, 1945 – Senator for Communist Party of Chile. July 1945 – joins Communist Party. 

 Throughout his life, always related/participating in some part of the government.
1927 – 1935 : honorary consulships
Spanish Civil War : joined Republican movement in Spain/France
1939: consul for Spanish emigration, Consul General in Mexico
1945: senator of the Republic  (because of actions, forced to live underground from 1947-1949)

Published a large body of work. (selected bibliography available here: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/279)

Marriages: Maria Antonieta Haagenar Vogelzang, Delia del Carril, Matilde Urrutia.

Died September 23, 1973 from heart failure.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/neruda-bio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/279

Happy New Years all! And Christmas. Hope it was safe and happy for everybody, and you’re all rested up. :)

I got a book of selected poems by Pablo Neruda for Christmas. I might have fallen in love a bit, maybe.

And looking back at my newspaper articles, I’m pretty sure I did them wrong. That’s unfortunate. I can’t fix them now though, that’s unfair. Sorry Mr. Murray!