Speech of Tribute Pablo Neruda
... That person is Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto famously known as Pablo Neruda, the most widely read of the Spanish American poets. Born in a poor family on the small town of Parall in Chile, Pablo Neruda started writing poetry at the young age of ten. His family did not approve of his literary ambitions so he has to adapt the name Pablo Neruda. ... Pablo Neruda who came from a poor family and unknown town managed to rise from destitution. ... Neruda’s passion for writing was as intense as his belief in politics. ... As busy as he was in his political life, Pablo Neruda never turned his back to his first passion, which is writing. ... As Rene de Costa says in his book The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, “He was once referred as the Picasso of poetry, alluding to his protean ability to be always in the vanguard of change.