In his own words "Kiss by kiss I travel your little infinity,/ your borders, your rivers, your tiny villages" In these poems, Matilde's is the only micro universe the poet inhabits. Highly passionate and imaginative, the poetry is divided into four sections, Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Night. Most of the Pablo Neruda love poetry in this section is taken from "One Hundred Love Sonnets". Indeed her inspiration did not end with "One Hundred Love Sonnets" There were other love poems in "The Captain's Verses" and "Barcarole" which volumes contain some of the most beautiful Pablo Neruda love poetry, showcasing a mature shared love rather than the youthful infatuation of his youth. Probably, rarely has a muse served as the inspiration and driving force of such a large body of poetry, as did Matilde Urrutia to Pablo Neruda when he wrote the famous "One Hundred Love Sonnets". All three of the homes that he shared with Matilde are open to the public as museums, two of which may be seen on Southern Explorations Chile tours.Pablo Neruda love poetry cannot be complete if we ignore the body of love poetry he produced in his middle age, which were mainly inspired by his third wife Matilde Urrutia. Written ten years after Pablo’s death, the book is an excellent companion for those who include one of Neruda’s three houses in their Chile tours. His last poem, entitled Final (The End), like many other of his poems, was dedicated to Matilde.Īnyone with an interest in Neruda that extends to his love life may wish to read My Life with Pablo Neruda, the memoirs of Matilde Urrutia, before they travel to Chile.
Though it was his love of Alicia he describes in La espada endendida (The Flaming Sword), published in 1970, most of his late work dealt with the themes of nature, politics and the memories of friends. By the time he and Matilde returned the following year, he was ill. Appointed Ambassador to France, the move to Paris was his salvation. The relationship wreaked havoc on his marriage, solved only by leaving town. Out of her sight during a brief trip abroad for a facelift, Neruda fell in love with Alicia Urrutia, Matilde’s thirty-year old niece, who had come to stay at Isla Negra. Neruda received an annulment of his marriage to del Carril on a technicality and married Matilde in 1966. On his return to Chile, Neruda separated from del Carril when his relationship with Matilde came out in the open. Since divorce was still illegal in Chile, he and his muse hid their relationship for more than a decade, spending time in idyllic, out of the way places such as Capri where they unofficially exchanged vows. They became serious at the start of Neruda’s years of exile in Europe.
Eight years his junior, Matilde had left her provincial home to become a singer and actress, career ambitions that ended when she entered Neruda’s realm. Born in the same region of Chile, she shared common roots though not his interest in politics or literature. Matilde Urrutia was the love of Pablo Neruda’s life. He remained married to her, though not faithful, for two decades. Haagenaar returned to the Netherlands with their daughter who died in 1942 at age eight in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. By then, he had already begun seeing Delia del Carril, an Argentine painter twenty years his senior who shared his Marxist beliefs. They separated in 1936, after the birth of their daughter, born prematurely with Down’s syndrome. They returned to Chile when the consulate shut down and moved to Argentina when he took up a new diplomatic post there. They met during a lonely time in Neruda’s life while serving as consul in Java. Complicating matters, she was part Dutch, part Indonesian, so they did not share a language. Neruda married three times, first in 1930 to the attractive Maria Antonieta Haagenaar whom he called Maruca, a bank employee with whom he had little in common. Then there was Albertina who married another of Neruda’s friends and with whom Neruda unsuccessfully attempted to rekindle a relationship as his first marriage was disintegrating. Early on, after some years of learning about love, but mostly lust, he met Laura who married his friend while Neruda was serving as a diplomat in the Far East. Pablo Neruda loved many times in his life, emotions and experiences he poured into his poetry.
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