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Pablo Neruda

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Chilean poet who wrote 'Ode to the Cat', a meditation on feline independence and mystery that explores themes of knowledge and unknowability.

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"From Harlem we travel south to Latin America, where the Chilean politician and poet of the people Pablo Neruda wrote his 'Ode to Lenin' (which is tragically difficult to find in English in full online). Stanza IV is both inspirational and aspirational, showing how Lenin took to heart Marx's famous 1"
Happy May Day fam · u/the-woman-respecter · ↑72 · 2023-05-01
"The cat, only the cat appeared complete and proud: he was born completely finished, walking alone and knowing what he wanted. Man wants to be fish or fowl, the snake would like to have wings the dog is a disoriented lion, the engineer would like to be a poet, the poet tries to imitate the fly, but t"
Ode to the cat · u/speechofthebirds · ↑29 · 2022-11-06
"Pablo Neruda wrote in a 1972 *New York Times* op-ed that 'We continue to live in a Whitmanesque age, seeing how new men and new societies rise and grow, despite their birth‐pangs.'"
"i've read some borges, bolaño, neruda, garcía márquez, and octavio paz, and i'm looking for recs."
good latin american lit? · u/oedipa_mass_49 · ↑21 · 2022-07-18
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