What Is The Purpose Of I M Explaining A Few Things

Pablo Neruda born as Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto on July 12, 1904, in Parral, Chile (Beasley, "Neruda Pablo"). He is one of the most famous international poets in the world and a very strong political activist. Throughout his life Neruda was diplomatically neutral, but during his post as a Consul to Madrid the Spanish Civil War broke out, Neruda broke his neutrality and sided with the Republicans. In fact, the main purpose of Neruda's work was to educate his readers about his experiences and beliefs, so they can take action, and is reflected in his work the "United Fruit Company" and "I'm Explaining a Few Things." A zeitgeist means to be a defining spirit of a particular period in history shown by ideas and beliefs. Neruda is considered a zeitgeist poet, because many of his poems display a specific period in time and have accurately captured them. The poem "I'm Explaining a Few Things" conveys how the country he held ever so dearly to his heart was doing during the Spanish Civil War. The poem's purpose is to show who was responsible for the
The poem is based on how the American firms had started to have total control over public utilities, which also had happened to his home country of Chile (Beasley, "The United Fruit Company"). In the poem it can be easily seen how the United States wanted to take over Columbia's enterprises and control the entire country. For example, "Among the blood thirsty flies the Fruit Company lands its ships, taking off with the coffee and the fruit; the treasure of our submerged territories flow as though on plates into the ships" this quote painted an image of how America sought to control the people of the country where they had no authority (Neruda, "United Fruit Company"). "United Fruit Company" is only one of the poems where his sense of outrage and rebelliousness can be