Poetry for Students, Volume 35

Perhaps she can give him a sense of life one last time. This ends the first quatrain presenting the scene of the moment of his d ...

his life. He wrote the sonnets for her as well as The Captain’s VersesandBarcarola. Eight years his junior, Matilde was a singer ...

love. Sonnet LXXXIX comes in the ‘‘Night’’ sec- tion and addresses their eventual separation through death. The speaker makes it ...

own, the focus is not on decay, absence, or sorrow. It is on the continuity of life. They will go back to the earth, but their l ...

Spanish American Literature Spanish American poetry flourished in the twenti- eth century with such authors as Nobel laureates G ...

only organized moral force he saw in the Spanish resistance. Poetry became for Neruda a political act, an act of peace. In 1948, ...

postponed for at least a decade based on his Com- munist politics. The Fall of Allende in Chile In 1970, Neruda ran for presiden ...

noted by translators and anthologizers, but these people were sometimes put off by the frank sexual themes. Neruda was compared ...

celebrating her hands in many sonnets. Finally, in the ‘‘Night’’ sonnets that anticipate death (including ‘‘Sonnet LXXXIX’’), th ...

love for Matilde is connected to his love of the earth, this particular coast of Chile where both he and Matilde spent their chi ...

compared his poetry to the daily bread that can nourish the human community. His love poetry is for everyone. In his Memoirs, Ne ...

half,’’ he says, ‘‘but never predictable just because it’s the other half.’’ He adds with irony that ‘‘one of Neruda’s regrets w ...

L. Howard Quackenbush In the following review, Quackenbush praises the skill of Neruda’s translator, Stephen Tapscott. Stephen J ...

‘‘cherries’’ instead of ‘‘cherry trees’’? How does a ‘‘bodega’’ become a ‘‘geyser’’ and can ‘‘lodo y luz machacados’’ turn into ...

Feinstein, Adam,Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life, Bloomsbury, 2004. This detailed and well researched centennial biog- raphy use ...

Uncoiling Mexican-American author Pat Mora has pub- lished several books of poetry, including the 2001 collectionUncoiling, whic ...

Mora, was a housekeeper. Pat Mora grew up in El Paso, attended Catholic schools, and she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from ...

It becomes clear in the ensuing lines that the subject is a tornado: It releases clouds, either in the sky or clouds of stirred- ...

barometric pressure bringing together combina- tions of temperatures. Mora makes use of the tornado’s behavior to convey the pow ...

Style Personification Personification is a figure of speech in which human attributes are assigned to a non-human subject. The t ...