Shasta Kellerhouse Period 5 5/30/00 Biography of Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda was born Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile. His mother was a schoolteacher who died of tuberculosis when Neruda was an infant, and after he moved to Temuco with his father, a railroad worker. Neruda attended a boys’ school until 1920. He began to write poetry as a teenager, and in 1924 he published Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desperada, which quickly became a best …showed first 75 words of 426 total…

…showed last 75 words of 426 total…early work was characteristic of the symbolist movement, as he expressed his ideas, feelings, and values by means of symbols rather than direct statements. He later moved towards a surrealist style, in which he wrote down his thoughts without altering them. In the end, Neruda seemed to become a realist, as he began to write more down-to-earth expressions that would be easily understood. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Information found at: http://www.kirjasto.scu.fi/neruda.htm