The used surfaces of things, the wear that the hands give to things, the air, tragic at times, pathetic at others, of such things-all lend a curious attractiveness to the reality of the world that should not be underprized. From them flow the contacts of man with the earth, like a text for all troubled lyricists. Wheels that have crossed long, dusty distances with their mineral and vegetable burdens, sacks from the coal bins, barrels, and baskets, handles and hafts for the carpenter’s tool chest. It is good, at certain hours of the day and night, to look closely at the world of objects at rest. Here is the essay he wrote on why poetry should be impure. This belief of his can be observed throughout his body of work, using metaphors and imageries that are drawn from every day things.
While one school says poetry should be for the elites, or it should be “pure”, the other school, that Pablo Neruda believed in, felt poetry should be “impure” or depicting the blunt realities of life.
There have been two schools of thought regarding what poetry should stand for and who it should be written for. He was regarded as the “the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language” by another South American Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Pablo Neruda was a Chilean Nobel Laureate, famous for his surrealist and passionate love poems, along with historical epics and political manifestos.
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