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Well, this was probably Neruda's last poem. He wrote it while sick with prostate cancer in the weeks before the U.S. backed military government overthrew the elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile on September 11, 1973 (the "Other 9-11"). He was a friend and supporter of Allende. He died a couple weeks after the coup. Some saw the military government hastened his death with poisons. Others say he simply died of a broken heart as he saw what was happening to his beloved Chile. I think the poem speaks of the turmoil and the violence of those last months of the Allende government in Chile.

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