1. Prepare a profile of Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (Pablo Neruda) using the details given below.
Birth : July 12, 1904
Place of birth : Parral, Chile
Pen name : Pablo Neruda
Occupation : Poet, diplomat
Awards : Nobel prize in Literature, Lenin Peace Prize
Works : 100 Love Sonnets, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Winter Garden etc.
Death : September 23, 1973
Answer: Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto was a Chilean poet, diplomat and politician, born on July 12, 1904. He is popularly known by the pen name Pablo Neruda which was his legal name also. Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He was also the winner of the International Peace Prize and the Lenin Peace Prize (1953). Neruda became a poet when he was ten years old. His important works include ‘100 Love Sonnets’, ‘Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair’, ‘Winter Garden’ etc. He often wrote in green ink which was his personal symbol for desire and hope. He passed away on September 23, 1973 at the age 69. Neruda is considered to be one of the most influential poet of the 20th century. His works have been translated to many foreign languages including Malayalam.
2. Read the following lines from ‘Poetry’ and answer the questions that follow.
And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from, winter or a river.
I don’t know how or when,
no they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.
a. ‘Poetry arrived in search of me.’ Why does the poet say so?
b. According to the poet, where did poetry come from?
c. Cite two visual images from the stanza.
d. Pick out an example of personification from the above lines.
Answers:
a. The poet felt a strong and instant impulse to write poetry.
b. Poetry can come from the river or winter.
c. Branches of night, violent fires
d. Poetry arrived in search of me. (Poetry - imagined as a person)
Birth : July 12, 1904
Place of birth : Parral, Chile
Pen name : Pablo Neruda
Occupation : Poet, diplomat
Awards : Nobel prize in Literature, Lenin Peace Prize
Works : 100 Love Sonnets, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Winter Garden etc.
Death : September 23, 1973
Answer: Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto was a Chilean poet, diplomat and politician, born on July 12, 1904. He is popularly known by the pen name Pablo Neruda which was his legal name also. Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He was also the winner of the International Peace Prize and the Lenin Peace Prize (1953). Neruda became a poet when he was ten years old. His important works include ‘100 Love Sonnets’, ‘Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair’, ‘Winter Garden’ etc. He often wrote in green ink which was his personal symbol for desire and hope. He passed away on September 23, 1973 at the age 69. Neruda is considered to be one of the most influential poet of the 20th century. His works have been translated to many foreign languages including Malayalam.
2. Read the following lines from ‘Poetry’ and answer the questions that follow.
And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from, winter or a river.
I don’t know how or when,
no they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.
a. ‘Poetry arrived in search of me.’ Why does the poet say so?
b. According to the poet, where did poetry come from?
c. Cite two visual images from the stanza.
d. Pick out an example of personification from the above lines.
Answers:
a. The poet felt a strong and instant impulse to write poetry.
b. Poetry can come from the river or winter.
c. Branches of night, violent fires
d. Poetry arrived in search of me. (Poetry - imagined as a person)
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