Song 12 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Pablo Neruda. Pablo Neruda was born in Parral, Chile, Naftali Reyes has published under the pseudonyme Neruda ( borrowed to a tchech poet Jan Neruda ) more than a hundred books of poetry. Socialist and patriot, he has worked mostly to reconciliate poetry and the people. He was given the Nobel prize for Literature in 1971. Oda al hombre sencillo is one of the Odas elementales, it is highly representative of this poet of transfigured everydayness. The film Il postino and the novel Une ardente patience by Sepulveda are evocations of the poet's retreat in Isla negra.