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POETRY ANALYSIS:
FINAL OFFENSIVE
Ernesto Cardenal
Ernesto Cardenal is considered by many to be one of the most significant poets of Central America. Cardenal is a Catholic priest, a Nicaraguan revolutionary, a sculptor, and his country’s former minister of culture (Magill, 1997). He was born in Granada, Nicaragua to an upper-middle-class family in 1925. He attended both the University of Mexico and in 1947, the Columbia University in New York. According to Middleton (2010),
In 1954, Cardenal participated in a plot to assassinate Nicaragua’s president Anastacio Somoza Garcia, one of Latin America’s greediest and most brutal dictators and the United States’ primary …show more content…
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