Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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"Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" is a landmark 1924 poetry collection by Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, renowned for its passionate exploration of love, sensuality, and heartbreak.

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instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Pablo Neruda
authorNationality Chilean
authorNobelPrizeInLiteratureYear 1971
contains 20 love poems
A Song of Despair
countryOfOrigin Chile
criticalReception considered a classic of 20th-century love poetry
firstPublicationFormat book
form free verse
lyric verse
genre love poetry
lyric poetry
hasPoem Almost Out of the Sky
Body of a Woman
I Have Gone Marking
In You the Earth
Leaning into the Afternoons
The Queen
A Song of Despair
surface form: The Song of Despair

Tonight I Can Write (The Saddest Lines)
We Have Lost Even
White Bee
Your Breast is Enough
hasTranslation English
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
influenced Latin American love poetry
languageStyle lyrical intensity
sensual imagery
literaryMovement Latin American poetry
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
notableFor exploration of heartbreak
exploration of love
exploration of sensuality
numberOfPoems 21
originalLanguage Spanish
originalTitle Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair self-linksurface differs
surface form: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
publicationYear 1924
setting natural landscapes
sea imagery
targetAudience adult readers
theme despair
erotic love
loss
romantic longing

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Latin American literature hasNotableWork Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda notableWork Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair originalTitle Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto notableWork Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair