The Hostile Hospital
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Pablo Neruda's Biography 1. From those various - and varying - chronicles, it becomes clear that from a very early age he lived in an entranced absorption in everything around him, natural and human, and at the same time, as a solitary child, he stumbled on poetry and became similarly entranced by it. From then on, he never stopped writing; it was like breathing to him, he said 2. He moved from his previous absorbed solitude into an artist's underworld of close friendships, night-long conversations, and passionate sexual love, discovering the poems of Rimbaud and Baudelaire and the companionship of other poets. 3. The five years before he moved to Chile were for the poet, separated from his language and his roots, a time of extreme loneliness and alienation; yet at the same time, he was taking in through his senses the wonders and horrors around him. 4. Out of that extreme distress...

