The speaker of this collection charges "stockings and shoes" with "dividing my feet from the dust of the world, / compelling my solitude, compounding my exile," in its poem "Ritual of My Legs."
The speaker of this collection charges "stockings and shoes" with "dividing my feet from the dust of the world, / compelling my solitude, compounding my exile," in its poem "Ritual of My Legs." The speaker prophesies that, "out of your turpitude, bullets are born / that one day will strike for the mark / of your hearts," in a poem from this collection ending with a thrice-repeated call to "come see the blood / in the streets!" The speaker examines "courtyards with laundry hung out on a wire" while "slowly dribbling a slovenly tear," at the end of a poem in this collection that begins: "It (*) so happens I'm tired of just being a man." The poems "Walking Around" and "I Explain a Few Things" appears in the second and third volumes of this collection, reflecting its author's output from 1931-35 while stationed as a diplomat in Madrid, and then from 1935-45, influenced by the horror of the Spanish Civil War. For 10 points, name this three-volume collection spanning two decades of poetry by Pablo Neruda.
The speaker of this collection charges "stockings and shoes" with "dividing my feet from the dust of the world, / compelling my solitude, compounding my exile," in its poem "Ritual of My Legs."
Residence on Earth [or Residencia en la Tierra]