The poet spent his childhood and youth in Temuco, where he also got to know Gabriela Mistral, head of the girls' secondary school, who took a liking to him, who won the Nobel Price years before Neruda. The pen name of Pablo Neruda was adopted in memory of the Czechoslovak poet Jan Neruda (1834-1891).

Some of the poems Neruda wrote at that time are to be found in his first published book: Crepu

Neruda has been one of the most beneficial writers in modern poetry, and not because that he is not very known “No writer in the world renown is perhaps so little known as the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda” (Selden). But you can really see on his book “Twenty Poems and a Song of Despair” that he is a great writer which in the opinion of many writers is what led him to become the 20th century South American poet. “Neruda found in Veinte Poemas y a una cancion desesperada the key to becoming the 20th century South American poet” (Vallejo).

sculario (1923). The following year saw the publication of Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada, one of his best-known and most translated works. “Veinte Poemas brought the author notoriety

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