The speaker of one poem by this author gives the title object "to the true friend / who offers his frank hand" as well as "the cruel one" who breaks his heart.
The speaker of one poem by this author gives the title object "to the true friend / who offers his frank hand" as well as "the cruel one" who breaks his heart. This author of "I Cultivate a White Rose" had his education partially funded by the older poet Rafael Maria Mendive. This author wrote a dramatic poem in which the title Nubian king asserts the importance of defending one's country to the death. In a poem based on a childhood memory, this anti-colonialist author of Abdala described a red sun that "shone on a dead slave, / hanging from a silk-cotton tree." His posthumous poems were published in the collection Versos Sencillos, including a poem which became the basis for the song "Guantanamera." For 10 points, name this Latin American poet and revolutionary who advocated for the independence of his home country, Cuba.
The speaker of one poem by this author gives the title object "to the true friend / who offers his frank hand" as well as "the cruel one" who breaks his heart.
Jose Marti