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What is the summary of the poem "United Fruit Company" by Pablo Neruda?

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The United Fruit Co has driven Pablo Neruda Bananas! The Pablo Neruda's, The United Fruit Co., a free verse poem, published in 1950, emphasizes the domination of the United Fruit Company amid the Columbian people. Pablo Neruda's The United Fruit Co. is able to greatly describe what happened to the Colombian people when the Chicago based United Fruit Co. destroyed his home and his people. The United Fruit Co., was very successful in Columbia, due to its location in the Banana Republic and the poor hardworking people of Columbia. The poem deplores the exploitation of the Latin American countries by North American companies. Throughout the poem Neruda is able to bring to the surface the issues of corruption that big, greedy, and wealthy companies, such as the United Fruit Co, bring to small, poor, hardworking countries in Central America with the use of allusions and imagery.

Neruda organizes the poem into four stanzas that follows Neruda's stream of consciousness. Each stanza represents events that occurred during the reign of the United Fruit Co. " The first presents the scene after the creation of the world and the birth of the different companies. The second talks about the dictatorship in South and Central America. The third presents the entrance of the United Fruit Company and the last presents the consequences people face from the arising of the said companies As Neruda mentions, "When the trumpet sounded everything was prepared on earth.

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