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    Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. As a teenager, he received encouragement from his teacher Gabriela Mistral, who would later win the Nobel Prize herself. This support helped Neruda find the confidence to legally change his name and pursue poetry. One of his most popular works was the 1924 collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, which includes the poem "Tonight I Can Write." While some reviewers found the explicit sexuality shocking, the collection became a bestseller and was translated into several languages. The poem charts a love affair through intimate language and economy of images.

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    Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. As a teenager, he received encouragement from his teacher Gabriela Mistral, who would later win the Nobel Prize herself. This support helped Neruda find the confidence to legally change his name and pursue poetry. One of his most popular works was the 1924 collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, which includes the poem "Tonight I Can Write." While some reviewers found the explicit sexuality shocking, the collection became a bestseller and was translated into several languages. The poem charts a love affair through intimate language and economy of images.

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    Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. As a teenager, he received encouragement from his teacher Gabriela Mistral, who would later win the Nobel Prize herself. This support helped Neruda find the confidence to legally change his name and pursue poetry. One of his most popular works was the 1924 collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, which includes the poem "Tonight I Can Write." While some reviewers found the explicit sexuality shocking, the collection became a bestseller and was translated into several languages. The poem charts a love affair through intimate language and economy of images.

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    po etr y 'T l)N ll; \lT l CA N WR IT E'

    - Pa blo Ne ru da
    ❖
    L__ __ __ _

    An Introduction to P.,hlo Neruda:


    _.., ______ ____
    .,. ~ - -
    Pablo Nl' ntd ., (Jul y 12, 1904- Srplt.'rnber
    2:1, '1973), , orig ina l nan w Nd t~\I
    Ricardo Rey es Basoal_tn, ~•v as a Chi lean pnl.
    'l, dip \om al, and po\iliriiln wh o w;is
    ,n,vnt1..ied the No bel Pn7.l' tor Liter.1ture in 197
    1. I h~was ~wrhaps the mo sl imporl.111\
    ~ti n An1erican poet of the 20th Cl'nlury.
    As a teenager he n:•ccivL'd enc our age me nt
    fron, one of his tea che rs, the poe t
    Gabriela Mistral, wh o wo uld later win a No
    bel Prize. Manuel Du ran and
    Margery Safir in Ear th Tones: The Poetry of Pab
    lo Neruda nolc, "It is a\rnosl
    inconceivable th~t two suc h gifted poets sho
    uld find each oth er in suc h an
    unlikely spot. Mistral recognized the young Nef
    tali's talent and encour .:-igc<l it
    by givin~ th~ "boy boo ks. and the sup por t he
    lacked at hon1c." This sup por t
    helped hun find the confidence to write poetry
    and at fourteen to change his
    name legally to Pablo Ne rud a. Du rin g high sch
    ool he published poems in local
    papers a~d ':o n lit~rary con:petitions. In the
    early 1920s he attended lns titu to
    Pedagog1co 1n Santiago, Chile, and in 1926,
    the University of Chile. His first
    collection of poetry, La cancion de la fiesta, wa
    s published in Chile in 1921. He
    followed tha t volun1e wit h two more: Crepuscul
    ario in 1923 and Veinte poemas
    de amory una cancion des esp era da in 1924. The
    latter collection, which includes
    his poem "Tonight I Ca n Write," became a
    pop ula r success in La~:n America
    and was tran sla ted in 1969 as Twenty Love Poe
    ms and a Song of Despair.

    ❖ An Introduction to Tonight I Can Write :


    ''Tonight I .Ca n Write" wa s pub lish ed in 192
    4 in a collection of poe ms by
    Pablo Ne rud a titl ed Veinte poe ma s de am or
    y una cancion des esp era da. The
    collection wa s tra nsl ate d int o English in 1969
    by W. S. Me rwi n as Twenty Love
    Poems and a Son g of Despair. Alt hou gh som
    e reviewers we re shocked by the
    explicit sex ual ity in the poe ms , the collection
    bec am e a bes t seller and wa s
    translated int o sev era l lan gua ges . Ma rjo rie
    Ag osi n wri tes in her arti cle on .
    Neruda, "O ne of the rea son s tha t Tw ent y
    Love Poe ms dra ws the rea der so
    powerfully is the sob rie ty of exp res sio n and
    the eco nom y of the images." Rene
    de Costa in his arti cle on Ne rud a not es tha
    t all the poe ms in this collection
    contain "a hig hly ch~ rge d confessional inti
    ma cy tha t cha llen ged and cha rm ed
    the sensibility of ·its rea der , cre atin g in the pro
    ces s a con tem por ary stil nuo vo
    which continues to res ona te in the lan gua ge of
    love." Th e poe ms cha rt a lov e

    For the text of "Tonight I Can Write,, with footnotes


    and the paraphrase of the Text, refer to "A
    Companion to Pot Colonial literature (Poetry)"

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