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Cardenal Biography
LEONARDO, DAYANNE LEI A. ENG 12 – X3
2012 – 11943 May 19, 2014

POETRY ANALYSIS:
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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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Middleton, D.J.N. (2010). Mother Tongue Theologies: Poets, Novelists, Non-Western Christianity. Retrieved from http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=t1NKAwAAQBAJ&dq=blessed+are+the+poor+for+they+shall+inherit+the+moon+rugama+interpretation&source=gbs_navlinks_s

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Roig-Franzia, M. (2011). Ernesto Cardenal, poet and Catholic priest, still causes controversy at age 86. Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ernesto-cardenal-poet-and-catholic-priest-still-causes-controversy-at-age-86/2011/05/26/AGSok0EH_story.html

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