FratFiles

• Save Paper

Gabriela Mistral was an extraordinary woman. Her life was filled with tragedy but she turned her experiences into beautiful poetry. Her poetry reflected many things about who Gabriela Mistral was and what had happened to her throughout her life.

Gabriela Mistral was born on April 7, 1889 in Vicuña, Chile. When she was only three years old, her father abandoned her family. She attended a rural primary school and the Vicuña state secondary school. By the age of sixteen, she started to support herself and her mother by working as a teachers aide. Gabriela Mistral is only a pen name for Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. She took the name from her two favorite poets: Gabriele D'Annunzio and Frédéric Mistral. She was the first Latin American to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1945). After the suicide of her lover, Romelio Ureta, she lived a life of self-described desolation. Although she wanted it, she never experienced motherhood. She did adopt a child but it later......

View the rest of this paper...

Approximate Word Count: 682
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

Similar Essays

1. Gabriela Mistral
   

   Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral was an extraordinary woman. Her life was filled with tragedy but she turned her experiences into beautiful poetry. Her poetry reflected many

2. Pablo Neruda
   

   As a boy Neruda attended Temuco Boys' School; the principal of the Girls' School was Gabriela Mistral. Mistral was a well-respected poet, and later became a Nobel Laureate

3. Child Abuse
   

   sentidos se están desarrollando. A él no podemos contestarle mañana, su nombre es hoy Gabriela Mistral Introducción La pornografía y la prostitución infantil son entre

4. The Lasting Love
   

   it reads that" As a teenager he received encouragement from one of his teachers, the poet Gabriela Mistral, who later won a Nobel Prize for poetry," and how "It is almost

5. Luisa Morena
   

   States labor movement and a social activist . As a teenager she organized La Sociedad Gabriela Mistral, which enabled women to enroll im Guatemalan universities. She went to