In one poem, this man wrote "I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. / Love is so short, forgetting is so long." As translated by W.S. Merwin, he also wrote "I want / to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees," in a collection whose last poem opens "The memory of you emerges from the night around me," after his poem that begins "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." This Stalinist addressed ordinary objects such as tuna in Elemental Odes
In one poem, this man wrote "I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. / Love is so short, forgetting is so long." As translated by W.S. Merwin, he also wrote "I want / to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees," in a collection whose last poem opens "The memory of you emerges from the night around me," after his poem that begins "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." This Stalinist addressed ordinary objects such as tuna in Elemental Odes, and wrote a section on conquistadors in his sprawling poetic account of Latin America. For 10 points, name this Chilean poet of Canto General, who wrote Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
In one poem, this man wrote "I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Pablo Neruda 