Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda was born in Parral, Chile. He studied in Santiago in the twenties. From 1927 to 1945 he was the Chilean consul in Rangoon, in Java, and then in Barcelona. He joined the Communist Party after the Second World War. Between 1970 and 1973 he served in Allende’s Chilean Government as ambassador to Paris. He died shortly after the coup that ended the Allende Government.

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We will read the following Neruda poems:

"Canto XII from The Heights of Macchu Picchu"

"Ode to Maize"
"Ode to the Potato”

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