Tala (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Children, Caribbean, Suicide, Poetry or poets, Poverty or poor people, Women, Death or dying, Latin America or Latin Americans, Puerto Rico or Puerto Ricans, Spain or Spanish people
Critical Evaluation:
For fear of losing her job as a schoolteacher in provincial Chile, Lucila Godoy Alcayaga used the pseudonym Gabriela Mistral. Her writings include poetry, stories, criticism—political and literary—and numerous prose pieces, many of them political enough to have attracted unwelcome fame. Never having had children of her own, she made an international reputation early in her career with elegant poems about children and motherhood. As a teacher, she devoted a significant portion of her life to young students, who included, informally, a teenager named...
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