Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

by Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

by Pablo Neruda

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Overview

'Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair' is a collection of romantic poems by Pablo Neruda, a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
This became Neruda's most popular book and immediately established his reputation. It also became one of the most widely read collections of poetry written in Spanish.
The book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world. The collection begins with passion, describing sensual affection that slackens into melancholy and separation in the later verses. The closing poem, "A Song of Despair," is painful and anguished.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789358983814
Publisher: Qurate Books Private Limited
Publication date: 06/12/2023
Pages: 52
Sales rank: 863,298
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.12(d)

About the Author

Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924). Pablo Neruda is often considered the national poet of Chile, and his works have been popular and influential worldwide. The Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language.

Date of Birth:

July 12, 1904

Date of Death:

September 23, 1973

Place of Birth:

Parral, Chile

Place of Death:

Santiago, Chile

Education:

University of Chile, Santiago

Read an Excerpt

The Morning is Full

The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer.

The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of good-bye,
the wind, traveling, waving them in its hands.

The numberless heart of the wind beating above our loving silence.

Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees like a language full of wars and songs.

Wind that bears off the dead leaves with a quick raid and deflects the pulsing arrows of the birds.

Wind that topples her in a wave without spray and substance without weight, and leaning fires.

Her mass of kisses breaks and sinks,
assailed in the door of the summer's wind.

Es La Mañana Llena

Es la mañana lleno de tempestad en el corazón del verano.

Como pañuelos blancos de adiós las nubes,
el viento las sacude con sus viajeras manos.

Innumerable el corazón del viento latiendo sobre nuestro silencio enamorado.

Zumbando entre los árboles, orquestal y divino,
como una lengua llena de guerras y de cantos.

Viento que lleva rápido robo la hojarasca y desvia las flechas latientes de los parajos.

Viento que le derriba en ola sin espuma y sustancia sin peso, y fuegos inclinados.

Se rompe y se submerge su volumen de besos combatido en la puerta del viento del verano.

Table of Contents

Introductionvii
I.Body of a Woman3
II.The Light Wraps You5
III.Ah Vastness of Pines9
IV.The Morning Is Full11
V.So that You Will Hear Me15
VI.I Remember You As You Were21
VII.Leaning into the Afternoons23
VIII.White Bee27
IX.Drunk with Pines33
X.We Have Lost Even35
XI.Almost out of the Sky39
XII.Your Breast Is Enough43
XIII.I Have Gone Marking47
XIV.Every Day You Play53
XV.I Like for You to Be Still57
XVI.In My at Twilight61
XVII.Thinking, Tangling Shadows65
XVIII.Here I Love You71
XIX.Girl Lithe and Tawny75
XX.Tonight I Can Write77
The Song of Despair83
Selected Bibliography91
Suggestions for Further Reading93
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