Pablo Neruda's "Ode to the Onion"

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🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today’s poem is by Pablo Neruda (/nəˈruːdə/;[1] Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða] (listen))(born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.[2] Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Daily Poem, a podcast from Goldberry Studios.
0:03.9	I'm Sean Johnson, and today is Wednesday, July 12, 2003.
0:09.7	The birthday of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, born Ricardo Eliasar Neftali Reyes Baso Alto in 1904.
0:28.6	He would adopt the name Pablo Neruda first as a pen name and then later as his legal name. Neruda garnered the Nobel Prize for literature for his body of poetic writings and is regarded by many as one of the great
0:42.0	20th century poets. A good deal of his work is lesser known in America, even so. In fact,
0:52.7	one critic said of Neruda, no writer of world renown is perhaps so little known to North Americans as Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
1:04.1	One reason may be that though he was writing in the Western Hemisphere, Neruda was writing in Spanish.
1:13.2	So there are a number of European countries where his work is more directly accessible.
1:19.1	It's a treat and a pleasure to read Neruda, even in translation, but not being fluent in
1:27.3	Spanish myself. I blame my fluent in Spanish myself.
1:29.6	I blame my high school Spanish teacher, but that's another story.
1:34.5	It's, I can only imagine what I'm missing in translation.
1:40.7	Neruda was a controversial figure.
1:45.0	He's the target still in Chile of many feminist protests because of some of the way he chooses
1:51.5	to talk about and describe women in his encounters with them.
1:56.1	He was a member of the Chilean Communist Party who had to flee his home country of Chile on
2:03.2	at least one occasion because anti-communist governments come into power and were seeking
2:10.9	him.
2:12.1	In fact, it is largely believed that he was assassinated, poisoned in the hospital by just such a regime at the end of his life.
2:24.3	Who can say?
2:27.3	Nerudo is best known for his odes and love poems. And we're going to read one of his odes and love poems.
2:35.0	And we're going to read one of his odes today.
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