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AGED 32 and already a prolific poet, Pablo Neruda was a consul at the Chilean embassy in Madrid when in July 1936 Francisco Franco helped lead a revolt against Spain’s Popular Front government.
It was a defining moment for Neruda. His poetry would never be the same again. Nor would his politics. He gave vent to his feelings in I’m Explaining a Few Things, one of his greatest poems:
Treacherous
generals:
see my dead house,
look at broken Spain:
from every house burning metal flows
instead of flowers…
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