The poet that most amuses me is Pablo Neruda, who mastered the use of language and deep feelings. The few verses out of the collection of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair in particular, convey love, loss and yearning in all of its rawness. But, I appreciate that in Neruda’s works, the self and the collective are so well incorporated as if it is written for the people of the world. He seems to live and feel at every moment and puts into words every transient thrill of happiness, misery and all other mundane experience for that matter.
Neruda’s imagery comes from nature, human life and history and politics bringing in a lot to the work. His works are always about geography and political action, driven and involved. His demonic yearning for emotions and their great illustration through the mode of language are perhaps the trump cards of Neruda for me. He has that rare feeling that one’s mind and heart can only see after reading the last word of a book.
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