Pablo Neruda's prose is densely poetic and replete with visual images. Substantiate
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ablo Neruda is one of the most influential and widely read 20th-century poets of the Americas. “No writer of world renown is perhaps so little known to North Americans as Chilean poet Pablo Neruda,” observed New York Times Book Review critic Selden Rodman. Numerous critics have praised Neruda as the greatest poet writing in the Spanish language during his lifetime. John Leonard in the New York Times declared that Neruda “was, I think, one of the great ones, a Whitman of the South.” Among contemporary readers in the United States, he is largely remembered for his odes and love poems.
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mark me as brainliest if it helps you
Answer:These are one of the most popular lines from Neruda’s poetry. Neruda is known for influencing masses with his poems which even scared politicians and authority. The section titled ‘The Word’ in his Memoirs particularly talks about the way he juggles words to create his poetry. Like a skilled circus performer, or a seasoned apothecary Neruda captures, treats and cultures words to decorate, garnish and enrich his poems. The passage also throws light to the way Latin American countries were drained of its material wealth only in return of Spanish language. However Neruda glorifies this foreign language by calling it ‘gold’, indicating how it helped Latin American writers to get international acclaim.
The Surrealist imagery used in the passage makes it stand out. He passionately talks about how he hunts the words down- saying that he clings onto them, runs them down, bites them and melts them. He sounds like a hunter here, keen on his task and keeping a watchful eye for the right moment or the right choice of words. Then he goes a step ahead to say that how he is greedy when it comes to words, like a stalker, like a collector and like a skilled cook. He catches them as he would catch bees midflight.
The metaphors used further are obviously Surrealist in nature. Neruda compares words to ivory, oily objects, vegetables, fruits, algae and agates. He compares them to olives and some beverage he drinks. Like a professional black magician he elaborates how would prepare these words to use as ingredients to his poetry.
The passage then goes to glorify the language of the Latin America- Spanish, which enriched their literature, gave them global recognition and represented them. Neruda shows his disapproval to the conquistadors who came looking for the resources his country had to offer. they left nothing. But when they went back the language they left turned out to be a blessing in disguise. He calls his men losers and winners at the same time- first losers when they lost everything and then winners when they became the ultimate winners in gaining the real gold- the language.
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