Twenty love poems and a song of despair = [Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada

This remains one of the most celebrated books of erotic poetry published in the last 100 years. Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971. *Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada* es una de las obras más célebres del poeta chileno Pablo Neruda. Publicado en junio de 1924, el poemario lanzó a su autor a la fama con apenas 19 años de edad, y es una de las obras literarias de mayor renombre del siglo XX en el idioma español. Audazmente metafórica y sensual, esta colección yuxtapone la pasión juvenil con la desolación del dolor. Extraídos de las conexiones más íntimas y personales del poeta, los poemas combinan el erotismo y el mundo natural con la influencia del expresionismo y el genio del poeta. El propio Neruda señaló que *Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada* es el resultado consciente de sustituir la ambición poética y la gran elocuencia que trataba de abarcar los misterios del hombre y el universo por un nuevo modo. El vocabulario es en general sencillo, aunque pertenece al dominio de la lengua literaria convencional desde el romanticismo y el modernismo. ---------- *Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair* is one of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's most celebrated works. Published in June 1924, the collection launched its author to fame at just 19 years of age and is one of the most renowned literary works of the 20th century in the Spanish language. Boldly metaphorical and sensual, this collection juxtaposes youthful passion with the desolation of grief. Drawn from the poet's most intimate and personal connections, the poems combine eroticism and the natural world with the influence of Expressionism and the poet's genius. Neruda himself noted that *Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair* is the conscious result of replacing poetic ambition and grand eloquence that sought to encompass the mysteries of man and the universe with a new mode. The vocabulary is generally simple, although it belongs to the domain of conventional literary language since Romanticism and Modernism. Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 6 Introduction......Page 8 I. Body of a Woman......Page 22 II. The Light Wraps You......Page 24 III. Ah Vastness of Pines......Page 28 IV. The Morning is Full......Page 30 V. So That You Will Hear Me......Page 34 VI. I Remember You As You Were......Page 40 VII. Learning into the Afternoons......Page 42 VIII. White Bee......Page 46 IX. Drunk with Pines......Page 52 X. We Have Lost Even......Page 54 XI. Almost Out of the Sky......Page 58 XII. Your Breast is Enough......Page 62 XIII. I Have Gone Marking......Page 66 XIV. Every Day You Play......Page 72 XV. I Like You to be Still......Page 76 XVI. In My Sky at Twilight......Page 80 XVII. Thinking, Tangling Shadows......Page 84 XVIII. Here I Love You......Page 90 XIX. Girl Lithe and Tawny......Page 94 XX. Tonight I Can Write......Page 96 The Song of Despair......Page 102 Selected Bibliography......Page 110 Suggestions for Further Reading......Page 112 The Chilean Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was probably the greatest and certainly the most prolific of twentieth-century Latin American poets. His third book, Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada - Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair- was published in 1924 and attracted international acclaim. Body of woman, white hills, white thighs, you look like a world, lying in surrender.