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| | Gabriela Mistral (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Mistral’s attention to the theme of love, which resembles the same theme in the love poems of Neruda, appears in “Sonetos de la muerte” in 1914, a collection of love poems remembering the dead that spread her fame throughout Latin America. |
 | | Mistral details and laments the destruction of land and tangible things as well as the destruction of her own beliefs, hopes, and well-being through themes common to her work including death, childhood, maternity, and the suffering land of Latin America. |
 | | Mistral knows the bitterness that accompanies a life of solitude, and therefore ends her nostalgic poem with the statement that "las que vienen cantarán;" (96) that children in the Valle de Elqui will continue to dream to be queens of the land, and that eventually, everyone will arrive at the sea, an unknown destiny. |
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