Round 6: Tossup 5

This poet is invaded by night “with her powerful army” in a poem that recalls being armed for the “hour of revenge.” A poem by this author asks a “brother” in the “bedrock depths” to “rise up in birth with me.” (10[2])The memory of a “deserted one” is likened to the sea at the end of a numeralled collection by this poet that opens with “Body of a Woman.” (10[1])This (10[1])poet climbs the title “Heights” of a ruined city (10[1])in a poem (10[1])from a fifteen-canto epic (10[1])chronicling the New World. This poet grieves a former lover in the last romantic poem of a collection, which opens by declaring “tonight I can write the saddest (10[2])lines.” For 10 points, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is by what Chilean poet? ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

ANSWER: Pablo Neruda [or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto]
<McGill E + Georgia Tech A, World Literature> | Packet F
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