This poet requests that a Naiad "cut your body into turquoise pieces" in a poem that begins, "You arethe daughter of the sea".
This poet requests that a Naiad "cut your body into turquoise pieces" in a poem that begins, "You arethe daughter of the sea". The speaker of a poem by this man commands, "do not look for me, for I shallalready have forgotten you". A poem whose speaker declares, "I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz", was written by this author of "If You Forget Me". The addressee of another of his poems"swallowed everything, like the sea, like time", leading the speaker to proclaim, "In you everythingsank!". The speaker bemoans, "Love is so short, forgetting is so long" in this author's "Tonight I canwrite the saddest lines". For 10 points, name this Chilean poet of Twenty Love Poems and a Song ofDespair.
This poet requests that a Naiad "cut your body into turquoise pieces" in a poem that begins, "You arethe daughter of the sea".
Pablo Neruda [or Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto]