Ode to TOmatoes
In his poem
"Ode to Tomatoes," he praises, obviously, tomatoes. The poem, ‘Ode to
Tomatoes’ by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
presents a pictorial description of the blood-red tomato that “beds cheerfully”
with other vegetables in the preparation of a salad.
Neruda starts with
the season when tomatoes are in abundant supply; they “flow over” from the
vegetable vendors’ stalls and their colour. When cut, the “two/tomato/halves”
look like the two hemispheres to which Chile and Spain belong, the only
difference being that it is summer in Chile in December (since it belongs to
the Southern Hemisphere) and winter in Spain (since it belongs to the
Northern Hemisphere).
He praises the
tomato in its role as food, but mentions the paradox that to use the tomato in
cooking we must destroy it:
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