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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHILE Matches Found: 85 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 7, by RAUL ZURITA Poem Source First Line: Chile's distant and it's a lie Last Line: And even if nothing exists, my eyes will see you Subject(s): Chile; Travel A WARRANT FOR PABLO NERUDA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With the fury of cinders, with the despair of dusty Last Line: An alchemy of resistance transmutes your flowering name Subject(s): Chile; Government; Nobel Prizes; Poetry & Poets; Socialism; South America AGATES, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where do these agates come from into my hands? Last Line: Of the ocean to the whim of the crystal: to purity itself Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) AIR IN THE STONE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the naked cliff Last Line: Of stone %and %water Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) ALBACORES, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The door of the sea is guarded Last Line: The ocean's chaos Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) ALL OF SUDDEN, by UNKNOWN+152 Poem Source First Line: What is it with these people-swallowing streets Last Line: For a month, %for ever Subject(s): Chile; Politics ANCHOR, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The anchor arrived from antofagasta. From some very large ship, the kind that Last Line: Did on its vessel, with dignity. One hardly notes the flaked-off iron on its arm Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) ANTARCTIC STONES, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There all ends %and doesn't end Last Line: Around the castle of solitude Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) BIRD, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bird, bird, bird Last Line: And your abdomen of stone feathers Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) BLIND STATUE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's been thousands and thousands of %years of stone Last Line: Striking across the centuries in stone Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) BRONZE DOLPHIN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the dolphin fell into the sea Last Line: Converting it into sand Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) BULL, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The oldest bull crossed the day Last Line: And silence built the rest Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) CHILDREN DANCE: 6. THE LAND, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: We dance on chilean ground, sweeter Last Line: Today we just know how to dance! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Chile; Nature CHILE, by ROBERTO (ROBERT) VARGAS Poem Source First Line: Hear %sister chile Subject(s): Chile CONCH SHELL, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The coonch shell awaits the wind Last Line: Their bitter insistence of lead Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) CRAYFISH, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop! Casual leopards Last Line: Destined for scarlet catastrophe Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) CREATION, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That happened in the great silence Last Line: That still howls without voice toward the emptiness Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) CREATURE'S REST, by UNKNOWN+152 Poem Source First Line: It's altogether something else with shrapnel Last Line: Don't look a gift horse in the mouth Subject(s): Chile CURFEW, by UNKNOWN+152 Poem Source First Line: It is the heatr of the night Last Line: The new moon sobs %over them all Subject(s): Chile DEAD SAILOR, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sailor wounded Last Line: And a sea plant kisses his wound Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) ELEGY FOR ORLANDO LETELIER, by FERNANDO ALEGRIA Poem Source First Line: Companero, %you had found the just course Last Line: Defend us: %give us your strength to fight and to be reborn with you Subject(s): Chile EVEN FORSAKEN THEY'D FLOWER, by RAUL ZURITA Poem Source First Line: Forsaken they would not see the prairies but only a cry Last Line: Themselves with joy singing even forsaken they'd flower Subject(s): Abandonment; Chile; Fields; South America FAREWELL TO THE OFFERINGS OF THE SEA, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Return, return to the sea Last Line: Whistling %through the streets Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) FISH MARKET, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish hang by their tails Last Line: It does not die; it is not for sale Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) FLAG OF CHILE, by UNKNOWN+152 Poem Source First Line: Chile's flag has three colors Last Line: Everyone knows it %and so do I Subject(s): Flags - Chile GENERAL MATTHEI DRIVES HOME THROUGH SANTIAGO, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The part where general matthei leaves his office Subject(s): Matthei Aube, Fernando; Chile GREAT STONE TABLE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We arrive at the great stone table Last Line: Who is the hope of our earth Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) HARP, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only the music came. There was no feather, hair Last Line: Grows. And the harp awakes from oblivion Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) HEART OF STONE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, %this %was the heart Last Line: With %the %enamored %sailors Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) HISTORY, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For stone was the blood Last Line: With its natural statues Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) HOUSE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps this is the house I lived in Last Line: From a struggle long as time Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) HOUSE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house -- I don't know when this was born in me Last Line: Mixture of sweet herbs and salty sand, seaweed and thistle Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) I WILL RETURN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some other time, man or woman, traveler Last Line: Here, I will, perhaps, be stone and silence Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) JAIVA, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The violet-clored crab Last Line: The delectable red rose Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) KEY, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lost my key, my hat, my head! The key came from raul's general store in Last Line: My sand-covered hat, my head-the head of a shipwrecked sailor Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) LAMENT FOR PABLO NERUDA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We may well ask now: 'where are the lilacs?' yes Last Line: For the guerilla entering the plaza where defeated generals wait Subject(s): Activity; Chile; Guerrillas; Politics & Government; Socialism; Spain; Exercise LAST WALTZ IN SANTIAGO, by ARIEL DORFMAN Poem Source First Line: All that you've danced they take from you Last Line: Right now Subject(s): Chile LET THE OPPRESSED SING, by ARMAND GARNET RUFFO Poem Source First Line: Let the oppressed sing of chile Last Line: For chile is more than a country, it is a people %dispossessed - the world over Subject(s): Chile LION, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great lion arrived from afar Last Line: The grey justice of stone, %its geologic hour Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) LOVE FOR THIS BOOK, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these lonely regions I have been powerful Last Line: Wandering among the sea foam and the roots Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) MARCH OF THE CORDILLERAS, by RAUL ZURITA Poem Source First Line: And there the mountains began to move Last Line: Their lawless march Subject(s): Chile; Mountains MEDUSA, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They hid me in valparaiso. Those were turbulent days and my poetry circulated Last Line: Walk around wrapped in franciscan robes from her topknot to her overshoes Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) MODERN TIMES, by NICANOR PARRA Poem Source First Line: These are calamitous times we're living through Last Line: Accursed trees crumble on accursed birds %it was all polluted to begin with Subject(s): Chile NAMES, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't write them on the roofbeams because they Last Line: Together they were the sum of my light. Now, a small %anthology of my sorrows Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) NOTHING MORE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood by truth Last Line: The sea works in my silence Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Human Rights; Negra Island (chile) OCTOBER, 1973, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamed I ran through the streets of new york Last Line: Brother? Brother? Subject(s): Chile; Dreams; Social Problems; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Women; Women's Rights; Nightmares; Feminism OCTOPUS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Octopus, oh blood-colored monk Last Line: Plural cloud of black rain Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) ONCE AGAIN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Once again the women linger Last Line: Even in the perverse secret of %wicked deaths Subject(s): Chile; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Fascism And Fascists; Human Rights - Argentina; Tyranny And Tyrants OX, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Creature of seafoam Last Line: Her dark cold sack, %trembling Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) PEOPLE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as I've always thought of myself as a carpenter-poet, I think of rafita as Last Line: Flown behind me and written the names again with the tip of a wing Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) PICOROCO, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The picoroco imprisoned Last Line: Of its cold gothic castle Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) PORTRAIT IN THE ROCK, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I knew him. I lived years Last Line: Here in his country, he lives, transformed into stone Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) PROVERBS, by UNKNOWN+152 Poem Source First Line: It's altogether something else with shrapnel Last Line: Don't look a gift mercedes in the teeth Subject(s): Chile; Politics RUGGED SHIP, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boat of thorns %pierced Last Line: The pure stone passing from wave to wave Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) SEA (2), by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pacific ocean was overflowing the borders of the map. There was no place Last Line: In the ocean, a man dissolves like a bar of salt. And the water doesn't know it Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) SEA ANENOME, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flower of the salty boulder Last Line: Widow-anenome, intestine Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) SEA URCHIN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea urchin is the sun of the sea Last Line: The sea urchin is like love Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) SEAL, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The knot of zoology Last Line: The planet's most penetrating eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) SEAQUAKE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clocks of the sea Last Line: That fills the devouring calmness Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) SEAWEED, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the seaweed of the storm Last Line: And my vestments of iodine Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) SHELLS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Empty shells of the sand Last Line: From the waves that left to travel Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) SHIP, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We walked and climbed: the world Last Line: Beyond, where death began Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) SHIPWRECKED, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shipwrecks of stone sang on the coast Last Line: The crystalline eternity of the journey Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) SOLITUDES, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the stones of the coast, walking Last Line: Of a great solitude filled with stones Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) SOME WORDS FOR A BOOK OF STONE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This stony book, born in the desolate coastlands and mountain ranges of my coun Last Line: In order to encounter the secret of stone and of life Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) SONG OF THE ARAUCANS DURING A THUNDER STORM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm cloud grows deeper above Last Line: Waft thither the song of your praise. Subject(s): Chile; Messengers; Reunions; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Storms SPARKLING BEACHES, by RAUL ZURITA Poem Source First Line: The beaches of chile were only a nickname Last Line: Shouting to all these winds the blessed baptism %they dreamt Subject(s): Chile; Seashore; Travel SPLENDOR IN THE WIND, by RAUL ZURITA Poem Source First Line: Swept by light the feet of that multitude seemed Last Line: Falling to pieces for just a minute of happiness Subject(s): Poverty; Santiago, Chile STARFISH, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the stars in the sky Last Line: Of the new undersea heavens Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) STONES AND THE BIRDS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of stone, sea and impossible sky Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) STONES FOR MARIA, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pure pebbles, %oval olives Last Line: Appears, gently, %a %lesson %of stone Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) STONES OF CHILE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mad stones of chile, pouring Last Line: Beneath %your iron clarity Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) SUN OF THE SEA, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day at isla negra I found Last Line: They didn't see each other Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) TENDER BULK, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't be frightened by the relentless face Last Line: And a tenderness remained Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) THE CHRIST OF ARGENTINE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: O, blood-red races, lift your eyes Last Line: With christ of argentine! Subject(s): Argentina; Chile; Peace; Statues; War THEATER OF THE GODS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is like this on the coast Last Line: To the naked truth of its gods Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) THEY RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS AGAINST CHILE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But we have to see behind all them, there is something Last Line: And the trunk of the tree of the country rots Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Chile THREE DUCKLINGS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand %times Last Line: Three ducks %in time Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) TO A WRINKLED BOULDER, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wrinkled stone %polished Last Line: In the middle of the sand! Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) TO THE TRAVELER, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These stones aren't sad Last Line: So that no one understands anything Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) TOMB OF VICTOR HUGO ON ISLA NEGRA, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One stone among all Last Line: In the sails of its own power Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) TURTLE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The turtle that %has walked Last Line: Among the other %rocks Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) WAR WITH CHILE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: War with chile? Just as soon Last Line: Let the godlike way be hers! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Chile; South America; War WARNINGS, by NICANOR PARRA Poem Source First Line: No praying allowed, no sneezing Last Line: No smoking. No fucking Subject(s): Chile WHERE THE THIRSTY FELL, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hips of stone in the desert Last Line: Is a fist of solidarity in stone Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Negra Island (chile) |
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