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... making confidently his own. 5. From that transforming experience came the vision for his next undertaking, a cluster of poems in which he explored and revealed how Latin America had come into being, invoking not just its exotic geography but also its drastic history, its social & political realities, its dictators and its injustices. 6. The passion of Neruda's political stance and the savagery of his diatribes against injustice made some of its sequences more polemic than poetry 7. In this visionary sweep, Neruda comes to realize & affirm what must be his new and entire dedication as poet: to become a voice, a voice for the dead past, for the stones themselves, for the inanimate world of objects, for the natural world, for the continent in all its myriad forms, and, above all, for those in the present who lack a voice. 8. [Neruda's Odes] reveal Neruda's utter absorption in the details of ...