Literature

Literature Chileans call their country **P**//**aís de Poetas**// which means **Country of Poets**. A lady from Chile named Gabriela Mistral even one a Nobel Prize for her poems in 1945 and in 1971 a man named Pablo Neruda won it for his romance poems.

Pablo Neruda is Chile's most famous poet. He wrote poems mainly about love, nature and politics.

An example of Pablo Neruda's poems:


 * A Dog has Died**

My dog has died. I buried him in the garden next to a rusted old machine.

Some day I'll join him right there, but now he's gone with his shaggy coat, his bad manners and his cold nose, ... Yes, I believe in a heaven for all dogdom where my dog waits for my arrival waving his fan-like tail in friendship.