Word: neruda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Santiago's General Cemetery where he awaited the cortege of Poet Pablo Neruda (see following story), Rauch noticed on the wall of an adjacent morgue a list of 300 people whose bodies were to be claimed by relatives...
There would be no state funeral, announced the ruling military junta, which confined itself to a restrained statement of condolence. Nonetheless, Pablo Neruda, the protean Chilean poet and Nobel laureate who died at the age of 69 last week, was given an emotional and stirring farewell...
Some shouted "Neruda y Allende, un solo combatiente [Neruda and Allende, one fighter]!" As the coffin was carried into the crypt, one old woman sobbed: "We are burying Salvador Allende...
...Neruda is the second world-famous Chilean to die, along with hundreds or thousands of unknown heroines and heroes, since the generals seized power. The mourners who braved the generals' cameras and spies to sing the International at Neruda's funeral Tuesday mourned not only Neruda but also Chilean freedom, those assassinated by the generals, and Salvador Allende, the president who had fought for freedom and the people...
...sense, the life of Neruda, the poet, speaks to university people like ourselves even more directly than the life of Allende, the doctor-turned-politician. It shows that intellectuals need not divorce themselves from other people, that the educated need not acquiesce in the world's oppression and so become a part of it. It shows that poets need not blind themselves to poverty, that they can instead stand up as men and women should and earn the right to say: "I have no part of this crime...