![]() ![]() ![]() He sees the legitimate Spanish Popular Front government confronting not only Franco’s military uprising but also the resources of German and Italian fascism. Neruda sees the treachery of the ultra-left played out. ![]() While Neruda is in Spain during the 1930s, his friend, the poet Garcia Lorca, is murdered by fascists. And let’s do this through the eyes of one of the Americas’ great poets, Pablo Neruda of Chile. Let’s go to Chile, France and Spain and turn the calendar back more than 60 years. Sometimes a look back into another period and other countries can be instructive. Does this mean most past times were much simpler and, therefore, easier to organize? And suddenly I see that from the south of solitude I have moved north, which is the people, the people whose sword, whose handkerchief my humble poetry wants to be, to dry the sweat of its vast sorrows and give it a weapon in its struggle.”Īs we contemplate Bush’s second term, there are those who bemoan the difficult and complex character of the day. From then on, my road meets everyman’s road. “As the first bullets ripped into the guitars of Spain, when blood instead of music gushed out of them, my poetry stopped dead like a ghost in the streets of human anguish and a rush of roots and blood surged up through it. ![]()
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