he clearly loved and demonstrates not only the maturing of the poet, but also the man. However, both collections demonstrate Neruda's commitment to the use of natural imagery.
Between 1921 and 1928 he published numerous contributions to Claridad and other small magazines (Pring-Mill xix). Galope muerto (1925) became the first poem of one of his most important collections, Residencia en la tierra (1933). In 1927, he accepted a consular position in Burma (Oses 1). In 1928 he was transferred to Ceylon, and in 1930, to Java (Oses 1). Also in 1930, he married his first wife, Maria Antonieta Hagenaar, nicknamed "Maruca" (Pring-Mill xx). In 1933, he was posted to Buenos Aires, where he met Frederico Garcia Lorca. In 1934, he was transferred to Madrid where he met the intellectually renowned Generacion del '27 (Oses 1). About this time he also met Delia del Carril, for whom he left Maruca.
In April 1935, Tres cantos materiales was published, which would later form the fourth section of Residencia II. These poems demonstrated a positive feeling for things in themselves contrary to the earlier moods of desolation. Also, during the war, he wrote Espana en el Coraz
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