Page 7 - HP3B 004 Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral

Despite his literary achievements, subconscious mind, meaning, that

Neruda was still in a condition of which comes from our dreams.

financial distress. Therefore, in 1927,

he took a job as consul in the city After this period, Neruda returned

of Rangoon, which was then part to Chile, and from there, continued

of the British colony of Burma. He receiving diplomatic posts in places

took other posts in different parts like Buenos Aires, Argentina, and

of Southeast Asia, married his first both Barcelona and Madrid in

wife, a Dutch lady named Maryka Spain. At this time Spain was mired

Antonieta Hagenaar Vogelzang, in a brutal civil war, which caused

and wrote many surrealist poems. Neruda to become politically active.

Surrealism is a literary and artistic This led to a lot of controversy

movement from the early 20th which surrounded him throughout

century that tried to express the his life due to his political leanings.