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In what sense do the poems in this section to have a more "global" view? What impact does this have on the experience of reading these poems?
The first set of poems we read, while occasionally exploring specific geographical locations, seemed more abstract, limited to inside the head of the poet or the speaker. The more the poems connect to specific geographies, the more students may be able to see the questions as relating to the external world in which the speaker lives.
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Analyze the couplet "It is bad to live without hell: / aren't we able to reconstruct it?" What might Neruda be expressing here?
The first clause of this couplet is the first line in the poem...
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