Tell Me, Is The Rose Naked?
Tell me, is the rose naked
Or is that her only dress?.
Why do trees conceal
The splendor of their roots?.
Who hears the regrets
Of the thieving automobile?.
Is there anything in the world sadder
Than a train standing in the rain?.
Written by Pablo Neruda
One of the most famous poets of all time, Pablo Neruda was born Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, but adopted legally in 1946 his pen name of Pablo Neruda.
From the 1940s on, his works reflected the political struggle of the left and the socio-historical developments in South America.
He is also very famous for his love poems.
Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924) have sold over a million copies since it first appeared.
Pablo Neruda was born in 1904 in Chile, he died in 1973. His honors include sharing the World Peace Prize in 1950 with Paul Robeson and Pablo Picasso and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.
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31_July_2013
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