A Study Guide for Gabriela Mistral's "Serene Words"
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Serene Words
Gabriela Mistral
1922
Introduction
Serene Words,
by Gabriela Mistral, appears in her first book of collected poems, Desolacíon (Desolation), published in 1922. Mistral was a respected writer in her native Chile, and when Professor Federico de Onís of Columbia University, in New York, read her scattered poetry to his students, they wanted to see more in a book. He gathered her poems and had them published by the Hispanic Institute of New York. Mistral was impressive in her physical presence and in her emotional use of the Spanish language for a poetry of passion. The charisma of her person and book spread her fame to the public and to the diplomatic circles she worked in all over the world as a Chilean consul. Popularly known as the spiritual mother of South America, Mistral made important contributions to Latin American culture as a journalist, poet, diplomat, and human rights activist, winning her Latin America's first Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945.
Mistral initially became famous for her frank portrayal of the emotions of romantic love. Her Sonnets of Death
were a cry of grief for the death by suicide of her first lover. But the subject of Serene Words
is her surrender to God, who was an even greater love for the poet. Mistral writes as passionately about her spiritual search as she does about romantic love, nature, motherhood, and children. Because she could have no husband or children, she said, she taught school and wrote tender poems for and about children, loving other people's children as her own. Serene Words
can be found in several anthologies, including the one translated and edited by her literary executor, Doris Dana, Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral: A Bilingual Edition (1971).
Author Biography
Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga on April 7, 1889, in Vicuña, a small town in the Elqui Valley of the northern Andes Mountains of Chile. She grew up in Monte Grande, a village in that valley, with her mother, Petronila Alcayaga, her father, Juan Gerónimo Godoy Villanueva, and her older half sister, Emilina. The father was a singer, poet, and schoolteacher. He abandoned his family when Lucila was three. She