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Jan 2022
14m 26s

The Life and Poetry of Pablo Neruda

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Liz Waid and Colin Lowther look at life of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. His poetry is still popular all over the world. Why do people still read this poetry almost 100 years later?

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