Tag Archives: Pablo Neruda

Whitman, Neruda, and Earth’s Indifference

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Katie Lastrapes

In 1856, Walt Whitman wrote “The Poem of Wonder at the Resurrection of the Wheat,” with the prospect of the destructive Civil War looming in the distance. This poem would later be called “This Compost,” and exemplifies Whitman’s classic crisis … Continue reading →

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An Ecocritical Look at Whitman and Neruda: Some Initial Thoughts

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Katie Lastrapes

In my final paper, I will explore the ecocritical relationship between Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda (and maybe William Carlos Williams?). Relative to the exhaustive of the body of scholarship that has been done on Whitman and Neruda, not much … Continue reading →

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Neruda and Whitman and Forgetting

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Prof VZ

James’s recent and incisive post offers a brilliant reading of the many arguably un-Whitmanian energies in Neruda’s love poem #20. More generally, he voices a healthy dose of skepticism concerning the degree to which we might think of Neruda or any … Continue reading →

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Neruda as a Whitmanian

Posted on October 1, 2010 by James Hess

This week we dived into the work of some Latin American poets, but the one that stood out the most to me personally was Neruda’s. As per usual, we discussed the various ways in which Neruda’s work could be considered … Continue reading →

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Twenty Love Poems…#1

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Lani Huft

Pablo Neruda Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, when you surrender, you stretch out like the world. My body, savage and pleasant, undermines you and makes a son leap in the bottom of the earth. I was lonely … Continue reading →

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Lost in Translation

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Peter Galle

What many translators say and we all hear many times: “The poetry of the language native to the poem is hard to capture in the transfer”. I find this most true with Neruda and even with the fine translations held … Continue reading →

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Re-writing Neruda

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Jen Green

The translation of poems into a new language, by a poet who did not write the original poem, is an odd concept. In the introduction to The Essential Neruda: selected poems, one of the translators, Mark Eisner quotes another previous … Continue reading →

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Desaparecidos / The Disappeared

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Prof VZ

I rushed through Neruda’s biography yesterday–I hope you have a chance to check it out on your own before class tomorrow.  Neruda fell in and out of favor with various Chilean governments, but his most profound disappointment came with the overthrow … Continue reading →

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The Saddest Verses

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Olivia James

Pablo Neruda’s “I can write the saddest verses” is a beautiful poem that desperately tries to comprehend heartbreak. In a way, he has come to terms with the loss of a great love in his life, but recognizes that sadness … Continue reading →

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And where are the lilacs?

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Dana Allen

Whitman’s lilacs are one of the most enduring poetic symbols of the modern age; lilacs in a poem are never just lilacs. Traditionally, lilacs signal the coming of Spring as one of the earliest blooming flowers and represent youthful innocence … Continue reading →

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