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Sonetos de la Muerte (Sonnets of Death) is a work by the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, first published in 1914. She used a nom de plume as she feared that she may have lost her job as a teacher. [1] The work was awarded first prize in the Juegos Florales, a national literary contest.
While little is known about her first love, his death influenced Mistral's poems, which often explored themes of death, despair, and possibly a resentment towards God. Her collection of poems titled Desolación , inspired by the loss of her first love and later the death of a beloved nephew, impacted many others.
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After the poet's death in January 1957, Doris Dana translated and edited one bilingual edition of the Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral from Spanish to English. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2006, Dana died and left behind what is known as el legado , or the legacy, an archive of Mistral's unpublished manuscripts, letters, taped recordings of poems, and ...
Storni was influential, not only to her readers but also to other writers. [5] Though she was known mainly for her poetic works, she also wrote prose, journalistic essays, and drama. [5] Storni often expressed controversial opinions. [3] She criticized a wide range of topics from politics to gender roles and discrimination against women. [3]
The 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) "for her lyric poetry, which inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world." [1] [2] She is the fifth female and first Latin American recipient of the literature prize. [3 ...
Pablo Neruda is known for his surrealist poems and historical epics which touches political, human and passionate themes. Among his well known works which are read throughout the world include Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada ("Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair", 1924), which established him as a prominent poet and an interpreter of love and erotica, and Cien Sonetos de ...
Sonnet 2 begins with a military siege metaphor, something that occurs often in sonnets and poetry — from Virgil (‘he ploughs the brow with furrows’) and Ovid (‘furrows which may plough your body will come already’) to Shakespeare's contemporary, Drayton, “The time-plow’d furrows in thy fairest field.” The image is used here as a ...