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......The origin of this rather unusual choice in pen name was with the Czech poet, Jan Neruda, who served as a very early inspiration. Nerudas second book, Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada (Twenty Poems of Love and A Desperate Song), was published when he was twenty (1924) and became and remains one of his most celebrated and translated works. What was so striking about this first body of poems, was the strong sexuality that was expressed throughout:
But the hour of vengence falls, and I love you
Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk
Oh the goblets of the breast! Oh the eyes of absence!
Oh the roses of the pubis! Oh your voice, slow and sad!
(Body of a Woman)


The nineteen-year-olds poetry was as viscerally sexual as any of poets many years senior who, certainly, had greater experience. The same year that he published this book, he began his studies at the University of Chile in Santiago. While at the university, Neftali legally changed his name to Pablo Neruda, published several more books, articles, essays and poems in various publications and found that his popularity and literary influence had become solid in

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