Word: neruda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This poem is the exception rather than the rule, however. The majority deal with less purely materialistic subjects. Particularly interesting to Americans is the long series of "Poemas De Amor" (Poems of Love"), by Pablo Neruda. The influence of Walt Whitman's frank free-verse avowals of sensuality is here-shown by poems strikingly similiar both in form and content to those in "Leaves of Grass." Even Whitman's phrase "Song of the male and of the female" is here repeated...