HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD | The Poetry Of Pablo Neruda And The Language Of Living

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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, far from being merely spoken or written words, contain a philosophy which puts forth his idea of how to understand the world, how to approach life and the role of the tongue and the eye in this adventure.

To attempt to encapsulate the poet Pablo Neruda, is to miss the point, entirely. He was not graspable, as no human being is truly graspable and cannot be encapsulated - just as the cosmos cannot be encapsulated.

At least, this was his philosophy.

Neruda was a Chilean, a poet, a diplomat, a socialist, a journalist, a political activist, a lover, a national hero, and the rest.

His funeral, in 1973, was attended by thousands (both for his politics, which expounded freedom in the face of the rule of the dictator, Augusto Pinochet, and for his poetry, which was also concerned with a type of untrammelled freedom) and he won the 1971 Nobel prize for literature which remember, is awarded to 'those who [...] have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.'

Poetry, Literature, as a benefit to humankind..

But this essay is less about his biography than about his philosophy; than about his view of the world and how life should be approached.

Consider: How do we ‘know’ the world? How do we, grasp it?

Well, what we do is name, analyse and classify.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who was strongly influenced by Neruda, in the famous opening to his novel ‘100 years of solitude’, writes: ‘The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.’

Neruda explores the mixing up and complicating of life to understand it, as opposed to the generally scientific approach of division, reduction and isolation.


RECOMMENDED READING:

Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda: Vintage Press: https://amzn.to/3BJALrB

Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life: https://amzn.to/2ZMpzx7


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