Lesson 18 notes - bits of the body
Grupo Básico Español – lección dieciocho Buenos días señores y señoras. Bienvenidos a la lección dieciocho de la clase de español. Mañana es San Valentín, el día de los enamorados. Pensé que sería una buena idea mirar algo de poesía romántica. The poem I have chosen is Puedo Escribir los Versos mas Tristes Esta Noche (Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Verses) by Pablo Neruda who was a Chilean poet and political activist. He was born in 1904 and his pen name was a homage to the Czech poet Jan Neruda . He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Neruda wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poetry, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography and passionate love poems, such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair from 1924. The famous Columbian novelist Gabriel García Márquez called Neruda "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language." During his lifetime, Neruda ha...