Explain they carried off the gold and left us the gold""
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They carried everything off and left us everything.
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This line from Neruda's "The words "; an excerpt from his autobiographical journal "Memoirs" stresses the importance of words to a poet and how foreign invasion or colonization has rendered several words and rhetoric to the poet. Chile was colonized by the Spanish between 1540-1820. During this period, they carried off all the wealth and riches and the only thing that they left behind for the people of Chile was their words /language. So, here in this line, gold can be interpreted in two ways. "They carried off the gold " means they took away all the wealth and valuables of Chile to Spain. "They left us the gold " means they left us their language/words. Neruda, as a poet is more concerned about words that can shape his thoughts than wealth.