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    A Study Guide for Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet 89"
    A Study Guide for Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet 89"
    A Study Guide for Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet 89"
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    A Study Guide for Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet 89"

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    A Study Guide for Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet 89," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535833783
    A Study Guide for Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet 89"

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      A Study Guide for Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet 89" - Gale

      10

      Sonnet LXXXIX

      Pablo Neruda

      1959

      Introduction

      By the time Pablo Neruda wrote One Hundred Love Sonnets for Matilde Urrutia in 1959, he was already a giant figure on the world stage of politics and the arts. In his political career, he had met Nehru, Castro, Che Guevara, Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung. In the world of art, he knew Octavio Paz, Picasso, García Lorca, Diego Rivera, and Gabriel García Márquez. He had lived through the Spanish Civil War, World War I and World War II, and had been exiled from his country as a communist. Though fifty-five, he could still write passionate poems to the woman who would stand beside him for the last years of his life, up until his dramatic death during Chile's military coup in 1973. Thousands turned out in the streets for his funeral to mourn their beloved poet, despite the ban by the dictator who destroyed Neruda's lifetime of hope and work for the people of Chile.

      Neruda was that unusual phenomenon, a popular and literary writer at the same time. The Chilean man in the street or in the mines could recite Neruda's poems, and at the same time, the poets of the world took note of his constant innovations in verse. He wrote over thirty books of poetry, won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and served his country as diplomat, senator, and presidential candidate. He was the South American Walt Whitman in his magnetic personality and poetic ability to unify his continent's history in Canto general (1950). Some critics separate Neruda's poetry into categories such as political or romantic, but One Hundred Love Sonnets contains the same concern for nature, humanity, and love as all of his work. He called poetry the bread of the masses and himself a poet of love. Sonnet LXXXIX in the One Hundred Love Sonnets gives the poet's wife instructions for when he dies. The sonnets are available in a University of Texas Press edition translated by Stephen Tapscott (1986).

      Author Biography

      Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, Pablo Neruda's birth name, was born on July 12, 1904, in Parral, a town south of Santiago, Chile. His father worked on the railway, and his mother was a

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