This document provides an overview of the life and career of Pablo Neruda, one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. It discusses that Neruda began writing poetry as a teenager and published several collections that achieved great critical acclaim, including his famous 1924 collection "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair." Over his career, Neruda experimented with different styles of poetry and was a politically engaged writer. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 and was praised for being the greatest poet of the 20th century by Gabriel García Márquez.

2. What is poetry?
Poetry is the art of expressing
one´s thoughts in verse. Is a form
of literary art and may be written
independently as discrete poems;
or may occur in conjuction with
other arts as in poetic drama,
hymns, lyrics, or prose poetry.

3. Poem
A poem is an arrangement
of words containing
meaning and musicality .
Most poems take the form
of a series of lines separated
into groups called stanzas.

4. Elements of Poetry
Poets have many tools
they use to add to the
poem´s sound, meaning
and emotional effect on
the reader.

5. Stanza
One of the divisions of a
poem composed of two or
more lines usually
caracterized by a common
pattern of meter, rhyme and
number of line.

6. Lines
A single line in a poem, often organized into
stanzas.
2 lines is a couplet
3 lines is a triplet or tercet
4 lines is a quatrain
5 lines is a quinrain or cinquain
6 lines is a sestet
7 lines is a septet
8 lines is a octet or octave

7. Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme
Words rhyme when they have the same
sound. Poems aften use rhyme at the end of
the lines.
Rhyme scheme is a pattern in which the
rhymed line-endings are arranged in a poem
or stanza. This may be expressed as a
sequence of recurrences in which each line
ending on the same rhyme is given the same
alphabetic symbol.

8. Free verse
Free verse is a modern form of
poetry which doesn´t follow any
specific rhyme or metrical
scheme, although it doesn´t
completely abandon the basic
poetic precepts of heightened
language and sonics.

9. Sonnet
A poem properly expressive of a
single, complete thought idea or
sentiment, of 14 lines usually in
iambic pentameter, with rhymes
arranged according to one of
certain definite scheme.

10. Simile
Is a comparison between
two things using the words
“like” or “as”. A simile used
to surprise the reader and
to create strong images.

11. Metaphor
Is a direct comparison between
two things, doesn´t use the
words like or as. Poet describes
a thing or person as if it actually
were the other thing or person.

12. Imagery
The language that appeals to the
five senses, are “words picture”.
Helps the reader to experience
familiar things in a fresh way
using the senses, such as smell,
taste, touch, sight and hearing.

14. Hyperbole
Is a figure of speech in which
statements are exaggerated or
extravagant. There are two
kinds of
hyperbole, overstatement and
undersatement.

15. Symbol
Something that stands
for something more than
just itself. Suggest
another larger meaning.

16. Personification
Type of figure of speeh that
gives humans qualities to
animals, objects or ideas.
Personification adds life to a
poem and helps the reader
view a familiar thing in a new
way.

17. Oxymoron
Is a figure of speech by
which a locution
produces an incongruous
seemingly self-
contradictory effect.

18. Paradox
Is generally understood as
seemingly contradictory
statement that may
nonetheless be true.
“Hot understands cold”

19. Onomatopoeia
Is the use of words that sound like the
noises they describe. Poets choose
words not just for what they mean, but
what they sound like. Poets use
onomatopoeia to liven up their writing
and add fun sounds to it.

20. On the Ning Nang Nong
By Spike Milligan
On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!

21. Alliteration
Repetition of the same consonant
sound at the beginning of several
words or sentences or a line of
poetry. Poets use alliteration to
make their poetry musical and more
interesting.

22. “Dancing Dolphins”
By Paul McCann
Those tidal thoroughbreds that tango through
the turquoise tide.
Their taut tails thrashing they twist in tribute
to the titans.
They twirl through the trek
tumbling towards the tide .
Throwing themselves towards those theatrical
thespians.
Is a clear example of alliteration.

23. Mood
Feeling that a poem creates
in the reader, can be positive
or negative. Poet creats the
mood with the lenght of
sentences, the words
chosen, punctuation, and the
sound of the words.

24. Tone
Is the attitude a writer
takes toward the
subject or audience of a
poem.

25. Theme
This is what the poem is all
about. The theme of the
poem is the central idea
that the poet wants to
convey.

26. Conclusion
The elements of poetry are an
essential part of what any good
poem is all about, structurally. But it
doesn´t mean that all poems must
have all these elements, it depends
entirely upon the poet, who has all
these tools at his disposal to use in
order to convey his ideas effectively.

27. Pablo Neruda
(July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973)
Neruda became known as a poet while still a teenager. He wrote
in a variety of styles including surrealist poems, historical epics,
overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and
erotically-charged love poems such as the ones in his 1924
collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair. In 1971
Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

28. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once
called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century
in any language“. Neruda always wrote in green ink
as it was his personal color of hope.
He died of heart failure.
In the winter of 1914, Neruda composed his first
poems. Neruda´s father opposed his son interest in
writing and literature, but Neruda received
encouragement from others. On 1917, at the age
of thirteen, he publish his first work an essay
entitled Enthusiasm and Perseverance in the local
daily newspaper.

29. In 1921, at the age of 16, Neruda moved to Santiago to
study French at the Universidad de Chile with the
intention of becoming a teacher, but soon Neruda was
devoting himself full time to poetry. In 1923, his first
volume of verse, Crepusculario (Book of Twilights), was
published, followed the next year by Veinte poemas de
amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems
and a Song of Despair), a collection of love poems that
was controversial for its eroticism, especially
considering its author's young age. Both works were
critically acclaimed and were translated into many
languages. Over the decades, Veinte poemas would sell
millions of copies and become Neruda's best-known
work, though it did not go to a second edition until
1932.

30. By the age of 20, Neruda had established an
international reputation as a poet, but was facing
poverty. In 1926, he published the collection Tentativa
del hombre infinito (The trying of infinite man) and
the novel Tentativa y su esperanza (The inhabitant
and his hope). In 1927, out of financial
desperation, he took an honorary consulship in
Rangoon, then a part of colonial Burma and a place of
which he had never heard before. Later, mired in
isolation and loneliness, he worked stints in Colombo
(Ceylon), Batavia (Java), and Singapore. In Java he met
and married his first wife, a Dutch bank employee
named Maryka Antonieta Hagenaar Vogelzang.