It was one of the last times her real name appeared. The fact of having lived from Antofagasta, in the extreme north, to Punta Arenas, in the extreme south, allowed her to know her homeland very well and acquire a rich and varied experience as a pedagogue. Her career as a poet had already been launched with force.
Most of the poems that make up this book had been written ten years ago, while residing in the town of Coquimbo. There she remained for almost two years, working with the most prominent intellectuals in the Spanish-speaking world at the time. In addition, as a prominent educator, she visited the United States and Europe, studying the schools and educational methods of these countries. In , she returned to Chile. But the political situation in the country was so tense that she decided to seek the possibility of going abroad again.
She was already internationally renowned as a poet and as an expert on educational issues. Therefore, she easily found a job as Secretary of one of the sections of the League of Nations.
In the old continent, she continued to exercise her second job, that of writing what flowed from her fertile heart. She dedicated it to Petronila Alcayaga, her mother, who died in From , and for a period of twenty years, Gabriela Mistral worked as Consul of Chile in cities in Europe and America. With the money received from the Nobel Prize, she bought a house in Santa Barbara. In many of her poems from those years, the trace of sadness caused in her soul by the Second World War is noted.
In , she was named Consul of Chile in New York. There she maintained a close friendship with the writer Doris Dana, whom she had met in , and who was her official spokesperson and executor.
Doris Dana, who stepped on Chilean soil for the first time, accompanied her. In Santiago it had been declared a public holiday and upon arrival the authorities of the capital awaited her.
They took her in a discovered car, escorted by police patrols, followed by horseback fighters and school groups from different schools.
In her path people threw flowers at her; and, on the way, the procession crossed a triumphal arch made with fresh flowers. The following day, she was honored with the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Chile. She had sold her property in California. In addition, she accumulated a total of letters and thousands of literary essays, which today constitute the most important legacy of this extraordinary woman who was born poor in a small town in a great country.
Later they were buried, as was her wish, in Montegrande, the town of the Elqui Valley where she spent the best years of their childhood. She gently declined the invitation. There are more than 40, documents, currently kept in the archives of the National Library of Chile. She also continued her early literary pursuits.
First literary recognition came in with Sonnets on Death Sonnets de la muerte. The suicide in of her first love occasioned the poem, and shortly afterward her second love married someone else, causing her early poetry to reflect personal anguish.
Motherhood, religion, nature, morality, and love of children are present with an overriding theme of personal sorrow. Thus, her international reputation was established, and critics marked her poetry—direct and simple without adornment—as a turn from modernism in Latin America. Two years later her second book, Tenderness Ternura , appeared; it contained some of the poems from Desolation and several new ones.
Fourteen years passed before the next, Felling Tala , appeared. It was much happier in tone, containing among other themes American scenes, "lullabies" for children, and a metaphysical acceptance of death—all written in a much more polished style than that of the works previously noted. Gabriela Mistral Works Cited. Gabriela Mistral Foundation. Mistral, Gabriela.
Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral. Edited by Doris Dana. Johns Hopkins University, Photo: Public Domain. How to Cite this page. Additional Resources. Gomez, Skyler. Related Biographies. Abrams is now one of the most prominent African American female politicians in the United States. Abigail Adams was an early advocate for women's rights. A progressive social reformer and activist, Jane Addams was on the frontline of the settlement house movement and was the first American woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
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