Fill in the Blanks Simple Past TenseOnline version Complete the text with the correct verbs. by Oswaldo Ramos 1 renowned devoted worked contributed made was died was assumed published began Pablo Neruda born Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in the Chilean town of Parral in 1904 . His father for the railroad , and his mother a teacher who shortly after his birth . At age 13 , he his literary career as a contributor to the daily La Mañana , where he his first articles and poems . In 1920 , he to the literary journal Selva Austral under the pen name Pablo Neruda , which he in honor of Czech poet Jan Neruda . Some of Neruda's early poems are found in his first book , Crepusculario ( Book of Twilight ) , published in 1923 , and one of his most works , Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada ( Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair ) , was published the following year . Twenty Love Poems Neruda a celebrity , and he thereafter himself to verse .