The Resume

(July 12, 1904-September 23, 1973)
Birth name is Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
Won the Nobel Laureate in Literature for 'for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams (1971)'

Why he might be annoying:

He followed the teachings of Karl Marx.
He had several wives and many affairs.
He said, 'Fleas interest me so much that I let them bite me for hours. They are perfect, ancient, Sanskrit, machines that admit of no appeal.'

Why he might not be annoying:

A crater on Mercury is named in his honor.
His father was a poor railway worker.
His mother died of tuberculosis when Neruda was an infant.
His love poems express young, passionate, unhappy love not sappy 'Roses are red' rimes.
He had a highly personalized poetic technique that abandoned normal syntax, rhyme, and stanzaic organization.
Neruda protested government repression of striking miners in Chile,
He was a flea-bitten poet.

Credit: SumoBear

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 20th Century Poets
• Google Modified Its Logo For My Birthday (Google Doodles)
• I am Chilean
• I Died in 1973 (Ranked: 69)
• I Got Gout
• Look at Me, I'm #1 [Extended Index Finger]
• Look at Me, Oy Vey
• Lycos' Top 10 Poets of the 20th Century Searches [1999] (Ranked: 4)
• New York Times' 10 Best Poets [2011] (Ranked: 1)
• Nobel Prize for Literature
• Poet.org's Top 20 Poets [Spring 2006] (Ranked: 15)
• Poets
• Poets.org's Top 20 Poets [Spring 2007] (Ranked: 14)
• Poets.org's Top 25 Historical Poets [Fall 2009] (Ranked: 16)
• Profiles 4501-4750 (Ranked: 4707)
• Referenced in 'La Vie Boheme' [Rent]
• SumoBear's Profiles
• World Literature Today Top 40 [2001] (Ranked: 1933)
• Writers Featured in the Barnes & Noble Authors Mural

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 39 Votes: 17.95% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 12 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 46 Votes: 65.22% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 68 Votes: 79.41% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 57 Votes: 68.42% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 28 Votes: 53.57% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 36 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 99 Votes: 74.75% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 117 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 181 Votes: 55.25% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 267 Votes: 58.05% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 522 Votes: 56.32% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 745 Votes: 58.52% Annoying