Analysis of Catalan Civil War Poetry

In Mallorca, during the Civil War

External structure:


a poem written in Mallorca during the Civil War, by Bartolomé Rosselló Pòrcel, was written in 1937 when Mallorca to Barcelona was in the hands fascists. It belongs to the modernist movement (…..) life guy (….)

Internal structure:


consists of the first two stanzas of verse
17 and the second of two verses. The first eight verses are octosíl · labs, 9 and 13 are Alexandrians and the rest decasíl · labs. No rhyme. In the first part until the eighth verse is immutable elements of the Mallorcan countryside, as the Tramuntana, QE elements remain the margin and temporal changes. The poet ends with an assertion that fails daquest light and landscape that makes it tremble.
The eleventh verse begins with an adverb that means now used in the present tenses. Here in this second part of the first part the items are processed. How to: herbs that Verdejo, now burned, the trees and gardens are latzur refers to the war and its consequences.
The poem ends as the poet and Mallorca suneixen as the flames in the darkness, a metaphor for the poetry of the seventeenth century baroque.

The distant city

External structure:
Its title is a metaphor metonímica refers to Catalonia, the Catalans, but also ideas as the second Spanish Republic. Poem written by Marius Torres (1910-1942) wrote it in 1939, after they had finished SPD Franco Catalonia. The poet was suffering from tuberculosis. Modernismee (….) life guy (….)
Internal structure: the verse of a sonnet Alexandrians, consonant rhyme scheme: 12/A/12B/12/A/12B / 12C/12D/12C/12D / 12E/12F/12F / 12G/12H/12H.
The first quartet, which started with one now. Appeals to the motherland to protect their children and who never betray Mentira. In the second quartet leaves the question of voice in which we hope Homeland speaks. The poet tries to forget the city that lives in another city prisoner and intuition and the new city will be bronze, and noble metal that will bring to all corners lànim warmth to the hearts and feet to make way, refers to exiles daquella time.

Corrandes exile


External structure: written by Peter Fourth, pseudonym of Joan Oliver (1899-1984) were published in Salon d’Automne (1947) in the middle of the poet in exile Chile.
Inetrna Structure: The popular song soon imporvisada. This four verses heptasíl · labs. The poet of the five and four alternates verses with rhymes heptasíl · labs regularly. It comprises a total of eight verses.
The first: support lestimada in the second: the covenant with the earth that leaves the third: lesquinçament life. The fourth: as a tool for survival lenyorança fifth: levolució the roots left in the sixth most intimate: the perfect metaphor of the locus amoenus and free to be happy despite the defeat, faith in a free country and complete the stanza eight



Green vineyards by the sea

External structure: it is a poem by José Maria de Sagarra (1894-1961) was a nobleman, lived on the income. His poems were ambientats Port de la Selva, sea and land around us is one of the poems composed songs rowing and sailing (1923). Is the poem is the most popular and collected by the green of the different seasons of Lany and time of day with different shades of green with the triumph of landscape painting of the blue edge of the sailor, the vineyards come alive, they embody and The landscape gradually became part of lesperit and feelings of the poet (let us always focus). Modernist movement belongs (….) topic: nice place.
Internal structure: the poem is composed of seven verses of five lines with a rhyme heptasíl · labs under DART 7a/7b/7a/7b/7a consonant rhyme.I incorporated poetry from beginning to end there encavallaments. Contrast, metonymy-sailing-, ties (personification). There are vineyards anaphora. We also express the loneliness of man. You can clearly see a humanised nature, vineyards say goodbye is a personification, the expression refers to the time hot afternoon. There is a pathetic fallacy, the landscape sajunta with your feelings, there are a lot of energy and life seems to be taken. There is a comparison in verse 28 with laigua sea. The fact that there have ellipsis refers to the repetition of feelings. At the end of the poem there is an imperative.

Lo pi de Formentor

External structure: it is a poem by Miguel Costa i Llobera (1854-1922) to write sinspirà pins embedded in the cliffs of the Formentor peninsula. It was collected in the volume in Poetry (1885) belongs to the modernist movement (…)
External structure: the poem consists of eight stanzas of four verses and a fifth Alexandrians hexasíl dev with a consonant rhyme dart higher minus the last verse that scheme under DART: 12 A/12B/12A/12A/6b. The first verse declares his love and admiration for a tree, the second and third verse sings the virtues attributed to it in relation to everything earthly and the fourth stanza says that much strength and perfection can not be human but come of the Divine love of the sky. In the fifth stanza was in the afterlife when compared to the genius that dominates everything as stated in the verses above the clouds shake and winner / s real hair.
In the seventh and eighth stanzas, becomes Pine of Formentor is a perfect example: lestima, lenveja. Ladmira to get to the point of purity and full of vitality and creative. The tree is the symbol for perfection. There are rhetorical figures as the personification of the pine unrealistic and hyperbolic language. And we see a strong vitality to live. Archaisms my heart. In the title it pi