Summary Of The United Fruit Co. By Pablo Neruda

Cummings and Pablo Neruda present the theme of their poems by having their two speakers addressing the women they love. The two speakers cope with the idea of prospective change in two completely different ways: Cummings’s speaker faces the end of his relationship as a situation that hurts him but in the end he accepts it, while Neruda’s speaker doesn’t care about his lover’s past as the only thing he wants is to make a couple with her. Thus, there are both similarities and differences in the poetic devices used in the two poems, while the tone of the speakers’ voice differs too, as in the first poem is sad and melancholic whereas in the second poem is confident and

In the end of the poem, Espada makes it clear to show that the speaker has come to a full-realization of his family and the culture they are neglecting. Espada describes a scene where, “So many coconuts in the trees sagged heavy with milk, swollen and unsuckled.” For the speaker to witness “so many coconuts” not being used to serve their purpose, is saddening. Espada makes it clear to see that the native people of Puerto Rico are taking for granted their natural gifts for a processed product. Not only are they taking for granted the coconuts, a fruit that is natural, unprocessed, and healthy, but they are also neglecting their own cultural roots. The people are so consumed in entertaining themselves through this commercialized product that they are forgetting the true beauty surrounding them and do not realize the actual harm they are doing. Not only to themselves but also to the land that lies right in front of them. The speaker in the poem also makes it sound like a child neglecting his mother's own milk for something that already comes pre-made in a bottle. The mother is able to provide something fresh and nurturing but the child, or the natives, choose to drink a foreign

In "The Hammon and the Beans" author Américo Parédes writes about the problems of Mexican-American children growing up in poverty. The story takes place around 1926 in a fictional south of Texas setting of Jonesville-on-the-Grande, under the shadows of Fort Jones. This setting is reminiscent with Parédes home of Brownsville and historic Fort Brown, established in 1846 to house troops during the Mexican-American War and later used to defend the border.

Neruda express his thanks for thanks in many ways, and one way was figurative language. The speaker used a lot of powerful figurative language to get his point across. In my opinion, the strongest use of figurative language is one that hits you right in the first stanza. It states, “Thanks to thanks, / word / that melts / iron and snow.” This personification means that saying “thanks” can break through the toughest and harshest of situations (the iron) and the smallest, softest of situations (the snow). Another use of figurative language can be found in lines 9-14, where it states, “Thanks / makes the rounds / from one pair of lips to another, / soft as a bright / feather / and sweet as a petal of sugar.” First off, personification is used when the speaker says “makes the rounds from one pair

This spreading decay is not only literal in the text, but it also symbolizes the proliferation of social injustice and inequality that is infecting the country. Interestingly, the text uses the spreading decay of the fruit as a cause, a symptom and a symbol of the spreading social inequality and discontent. The decaying fruit is a cause of the social discontent, as the rotting fruit is an affront to those who cannot afford to buy enough food for themselves and their families. As the text says: “a million people hungry, needing the fruit – and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains”. People are literally forced to watch “potatoes float by”, “screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quicklime”, and “mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze”. The waste of good food is thus a cause of separation between producers and consumers, as the potential consumers of produce cannot understand the willful destruction of fruit and food that could have been such a benefit to them. We see in the text a very vivid depiction of this causal relationship: “children

In his introduction, Soluri introduces his idea of the banana as a symbol, something that he repeats throughout the book. I believe this is one of his strongest arguments. To him, the banana is a symbol of the "distance" (2) between those who grow the banana and those who consume it. According to Soluri, while the actual fruit lost its exoticism by the early twentieth century, "Yankees" still found their countries of origin "a world apart, fill with dark, sensual, and slothful people" (2). This symbolism is further exploited with the emergence of mass media. The banana 's "sensuality" was expanded by the invention and recreation of "Miss Chiquita". Originally inspired by entertainer Carmen Miranda, who used the banana 's sensuality in her own acts (164), Miss Chiquita was a banana that wore a long flowing skirt, sang catchy tunes, and inspired the American people to eat only the "highest quality" bananas. Miss

In the beginning of the third stanza, line 11 is the only line Baca uses indentation. This puts an emphasis on the fact that his grandmother loves green chile, the opposite of what Baca likes. "From its swan-neck stem, tapering to a flowery collar, fermenting resinous spice" (17-18). Baca uses metaphoric language to describe the qualities of chiles. "A well-dressed gentleman at the door my grandmother takes sensuously in her hand" (19-20). More metaphoric language that creates an lively image of an human that represents an youthful green chile. "she thrusts her blade into and cuts it open, with lust on her hot mouth" (27-29). Baca creates more images of his grandmother preparing the green chile to eat. Baca likes to give vivid details while creating images so that the reader can understand exactly what is occuring. "I slurp from my plate with last bit of tortilla, my mouth burns and I hiss and drink a tall glass of cold water" (36-38). Baca use onomatopoeias, slurp and hiss, to emphasize the feeling of eating a well prepared meal.

The phrase “cosmos, the center” is placed on a separate line that represents a specific dilemma that a person faces. It’s the key phrase of the poem that is supported by the words “is struggle” and “closure.” The poem ends with the phrase “palace of leaves” that indicates the full transformation of the personality that has overcome the complicated situation in life and a new beautiful world appeared in front of him or

The book “The Captain’s Verses” by Pablo Neruda, there are many love poems. Poems that express different ways of loving someone. I decided to pick Neruda's body of work because of how smooth and elegant his poems sound. They express so much passion towards a person and also send a message. When reading his poems I would be able to understand the emotion the poem carried. This is the first thing that caught my attention from his poems. The emotions each and every one of them carried.

Pablo Neruda is from Chile and gives a voice to Latin America in his poetry (Bleiker 1129). “The United Fruit Co.,” the poem by Pablo Neruda that will be analyzed in this essay, is enriched with symbolism, metaphors, and allusions. These allusions have great emphasis to the Christian religion, but some allusions are used to evoke negative emotions towards the United States (Fernandez 1; Hawkins 42). Personification and imagery along with onomatopoeia and metonymy are also found in “The United Fruit Co.” Neruda’s use of these literary devices makes his messages of imperialism, Marxism, and consumerism understandable (Fernandez 4). In this essay each of these literary devices with its proper meaning will be further analyzed in the hope of

By once again noting “the hour,” Neruda portrays individuality as perpetuating humanity’s existential woes. Many see the time’s passage as horrid, but nature sees every hour, winter or spring, the same way. However, since the Egoist unfortunately falls victim to the ego’s trap, he cannot experience nature’s wonders.

Pablo through the poem speaks his mind of experiences in Latin America by using the company of the United Fruits to describe the injustices to the locals vividly. Throughout the poem, Pablo uses a great deal of symbolism, metaphors, and connotations to relate the situation in Chile. The evidence of the setting as Chile is described in line 8 and 9 where the poet describes it as ‘…coast of my world….waist of America.’ Through the use of the word mu in the 8th line, it is evident that the persona in the poem is Pablo hence recounting events experienced in a colonial error marred by killings and social injustices against Latin Americans. There are multiple perpetrators such as Coca-Cola who

Imagine racism taking over the world, with overwhelming thoughts about how you might be the next victim. Quarrels about whether the best skin is black or white, but always resulting that white is right. Hope would evaporate from an evanescent cloud and Faith became instinct as it was replaced by agony. Everywhere you turned around for help, all you saw were the bodies of those neglected and lynched. Abel Meeropol published the poem Strange Fruit in 1937, after seeing a drastic picture of lynching that traumatized him ever since then. As a result, the poem became a memory to all those who died and is momentous to our history.

From a perspective of sound, it is obvious that there is a pattern in the poem that could provide readers the same feel of the sea just by listening to it. The poet uses two techniques basically to create that effect in terms of internal rhythm and soft sounds. For example, in the line “I love the sea because it teaches me” and “what it taught me before, I keep”, a consonance syllable “ee” has been used by Neruda. Also, there are several words containing the syllables like “s”, “sh”, and “w” playing an essential role in creating the whole mood of the poem. For example, Neruda writes” If it’s a single wave or its vast existence, / or only its

At the mere age of seventeen, Pablo Neruda wrote ’Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair’ and it has since become one of his most famous collection of poems. Once, in an interview, Neruda stated that he could not understand “why this book, a book of love-sadness, of love-pain, continues to be read by so many people, by so many young people” (Guibert, 2015). He also mentioned that “Perhaps this book represents the youthful posing of many enigmas; perhaps it represents the answers to those enigmas.” (Guibert, 2015). Neruda was one of the first poets to explore sexual imagery and eroticism in his work and become accepted for it. Many Latin-American poets had attempted the same, but failed to become popular with their critics. He merges his own experiences and memories with that of the picturesque Chilean scenery to present a beautifully poetic sense of love and sexual desire. The collection hosts quite a controversial opinion, however, amongst critics and readers alike, with the risqué themes running throughout the poems. Eroticism being one of the most evident and reoccurring themes.