![]() Nonetheless, later in life Mistral was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Florence and the University of Guatemala. When she was nine, Lucila attended rural primary school and Vicuña state secondary school until she was 12 years old she was later home-schooled by her sister Emelina. She lived with her mother, Petrolina Alcayga, who was also a schoolteacher, and sister, Emelina. Her father, Jerónimo Godoy, a vagabond poet and a schoolteacher, abandoned the family when Lucila was only three years old. Lucila (the future Gabriela) was born in Vicuña, a small town in northern Chile's Elquia Valley. Some of Mistral's best known poems include: Piececitos de Niño, Balada, Todas Íbamos a ser Reinas, La Oración de la Maestra, El Ángel Guardián, Decálogo del Artista and La Flor del Aire. Mistral's poetry is influenced by her Christian faith and a recurrent theme in her poems is that of a "rebirth" after death and, hence, liberation from the world. Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love (especially maternal love), sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of native and European influences. ![]() ![]() Mistral published over 30 collections of poetry in her lifetime. ![]()
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