Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Neruda

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is a collection of poems by (Chilean) Pablo Neruda.

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair inherits the traditions of the Spanish national poetry, but also accepts the influence of the French modernist poetry, such as Baudelaire;

both absorbs the characteristics of the Chilean national poetry, and also finds the form of his own most inclined to the work of Whitman. His also poems express his ideals and hopes with strong feelings, rich imagery and vocabulary, and are popular with young readers.

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The book Neruda is not only in the praise of love, but also in the praise of sex. It was destiny that the work should face its readers with a more poetic and rhythmic title, because it is indeed not a book of poems about sex, but a book of poems that kneads sex and love, and that is the real beauty of the poem, because it is closer to the essence of the relationship between a man and a woman.

In fact the original title might have been more appropriate -- Poems of a Man and a Woman. Of course, it was destiny that it should be titled something more poetic and rhythmic, because it is indeed not a book of poems about sex, but a book of poems that combine sex and love.