Pablo NerudaArticle Free Pass Communism and poetry A second,
enlarged edition of the Residencia poems entitled Residencia en
la tierra, 1925–35 was published in two volumes in 1935. In this
edition, Neruda begins to move away from the highly personal,
often hermetic poetry of the first Residencia volume, adopting a
more extroverted outlook and a clearer, more accessible style in
order to better communicate his new social concerns to the
reader. This line of poetic development was interrupted suddenly
by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, however. While
García Lorca was executed by the Nationalists and Alberti and
Hernández fought at the front, Neruda traveled in and out of
Spain to gather money and mobilize support for the Republicans.
He wrote España en el corazón (1937; Spain in My Heart) to
express his feelings of solidarity with them. The book was
printed by Republican troops working with improvised presses
near the front lines. In 1937 Neruda returned to Chile and
entered his country’s politi