Poem 20 pablo neruda spanish biography
Poem 20 pablo neruda spanish biography
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
1924 poetry collection by Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
Published in June 1924, the book launched Neruda to fame at the young age of 19 and is one of the most renowned literary works of the 20th century in the Spanish language. The book has been translated into many languages; in English, the translation was made by poet W.
S. Merwin in 1969.
Background and composition
The book belongs to Neruda's youthful period and is often described as a conscious evolution of his poetic style, breaking away from the dominant modernist molds that characterized his earlier compositions and his first book, Crepusculario.
Poem 20 pablo neruda spanish biography summary
The collection comprises twenty love poems, followed by a final poem titled The Song of Despair. Except for the final poem, the individual poems in the collection are untitled.
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