Analysis Of Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda is recognized as an influential poet, still people can’t separate his poetry from his politics; instead, critics analyze him for all he is: the sad, the happy, the political and the personal. Pablo Neruda’s thematic mood changes and progresses in perspective to his poems "Body of a Woman", "Ode to the Yellow Bird", and "The Portrait in the Rock" (in that chronological order). Neruda not only progresses from the first line to the last line in each individual poem but as a poet over time. For Neruda’s readers to feel the shift in tone and the distinctive atmosphere, he uses incredible imagery aided by figurative language and symbolism. Nature is the constant in Pablo Neruda’s poetry, but through the imagery, figurative language,

Innately a poem named "Body of a Woman" radiates such a feeling; one mostly about allurement into sexuality. While there is not much depth due to the poem’s explicitness and obvious stand-in symbols such as: the world lying in surrender being the woman, “the white hills”, “moss”, and “the roses of the pubis” that pertain to this world, Neruda creates an image in our mind that allows his readers to visualize the scene as the poet did. Not only does this poem contribute to being able to envision the change in the overall atmosphere that Neruda’s poetry underwent over time; it shows a progression from line one when he first refers to the subject as “body of a woman” and then in line 13 he says “body of my woman”. The atmosphere in stanza one is of admiration and worship of that body but in stanza four the tone progresses into a more possessive one. That, in addition to the “thirst” he has is a symbol of lust and of a selfish physical desire. The impacts of nature symbols and imagery reveal Pablo Neruda’s intent and desires when he wrote this poem. Over time though, this

Although this poem is reverent to the yellow bird, it is undoubtedly about its death and burial; it is a poem about beauty that has been “extinguished”. The “electric, excited, murmurous”(36-38) bird whose beauty pertained to its “defiance”(54) was entrapped, restricted, forced to go against its natural ways. Even when Neruda mentions the beauty of the bird, he does not forget to attach the reminder that it no longer exists or that it was taken away from the bird. The characteristics, the “yellow flashes, the black lightning”(lines 10-11), that once made the bird one with nature were covered in dirt when it was buried. Readers can imagine not only the bird encaged and dead, but also the way Neruda associated its color and way of being to one of nature 's occurrences. So when the reader imagines the bird buried, they also see yellow and black lightning. And the inevitable noise and the feeling of fearful amazement that comes with it. The burial of a bird is also a reminder of the mood at people’s funerals. Moreover, many people keep birds as pets trapped in a small cage rather than let it be free where it 's supposed to be. Many times, the captors are aware of the cruelty but still wish to selfishly and without benefits hold on to their beauty and not let it go. Intertwined in