" At the end of that poem by this author, the speaker proclaims "it is the hour of departure" after lamenting "in you everything sank!"
In one of this author's poems, the speaker compares a "catafalqued (KAT-ah-falk'd) king" and a "solitary man of war / among these frail vegetables" to the title "torpedo from the ocean" that is "navigating now / the waters of death." Another of his poems concludes about the title objects that "beauty is twice / beauty / and what is good is doubly / good." This author of poems dedicated to a tuna and his own socks wrote another poem calling a lover a "cemetery of kisses" and a "pit of debris" who is "standing like a sailor at the prow of a vessel." At the end of that poem by this author, the speaker proclaims "it is the hour of departure" after lamenting "in you everything sank!" For 10 points, what poet wrote the collections Elemental Odes and Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair?
In one of this author's poems, the speaker compares a "catafalqued (KAT-ah-falk'd) king" and a "solitary man of war / among these frail vegetables" to the title "torpedo from the ocean" that is "navigating now / the waters of death."
Pablo Neruda [or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto]