Pablo Neruda's "A Dog Has Died"

Today’s poem is by Pablo Neruda (/nəˈruːdə/;^[1] Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða] ^ⓘ; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.^[2] Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).

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