In one work by this poet, the speaker wishes he could go "through the streets with a green knife / shouting until I died of cold."
In one work by this poet, the speaker wishes he could go "through the streets with a green knife / shouting until I died of cold." That poem by him begins with the declaration, "It happens that I am tired of being a man." In another poem by him, the lines "The night is shattered / and the blue stars shiver in the distance" are evidence of the opening declaration, "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." This poet of "Walking Around" wrote a collection of Elemental Odes, as well as a poem that expresses the desire to "scrape the innards" of the title location "until I touch mankind." The speaker of that poem urges, "Rise up to be born with me, my brother." For 10 points, name this Chilean poet of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, and "The Heights of Machu Picchu," which appears in Canto General.
In one work by this poet, the speaker wishes he could go "through the streets with a green knife / shouting until I died of cold."
Pablo Neruda [or Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto]