Description acceptable. This real-life person might be the addressee of a poem that states “You will know our new covenant was a sign of the stars / and, having broken that enormous pact, you had to die.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this railroad worker whose suicide inspired a collection of poems that opens with him being lowered into the earth from a “frozen niche” that men placed him in.
ANSWER: Romelio Ureta [accept, but DO NOT REVEAL, descriptions of Gabriela Mistral’s lover]
[10e] The death of Romelio Ureta inspired Sonnets of Death, which is by this Chilean poet.
ANSWER: Gabriela Mistral [or Lucila Godoy Alcayaga]
[10h] The Sonnets of Death were later included in this collection of Mistral’s poetry. A poem from this collection that begins “A son, a son, a son! I wanted a son of yours” was referenced in Mistral’s Nobel citation in 1945.
ANSWER: Desolación [or Desolation or Despair]
<Edinburgh A, World Literature>