From Social Poetry to Newest Voices: Exploring Modern Spanish & Neruda’s Poetic Evolution

1.INTRODUCION: After the poetry rooted and uprooted 40 voices are uprooted, which makes human existence a preferential issue to be preparatory to the social poetry / / 2.The 1955-1970, OF THE SOCIAL A LA P. EXPERIENCE: “The anthology consulted the young Spanish Poetry” by Francisco Ribes attested seeking changes in communication and go against pure poetry, so poetry appears G.Celaya social.Es-establishes its characteristic features: Poetry has to be related to what is happening here and now, is to be useful sacrificing beauty, so the poet feels like a prophet to a broad audience. The topics are Spain and its history, Civil War, the testimony and denunciation of society and politics, and the search for a better future. Spend the self to us. In the communication style of poetry is modeled conversational language. Libre.-verse predominates 2oleadas distinguish, first with authors such as Celaya, Blas de Otero and Eugenio de Nora, and the second with the “poetic group of 50″ formed by authors such as JG de Barcelona Biedma or Goytisolo and authors Valente and JA Madrid Bonald. “But in the early 60’s belief that the end of the Franco regime was near and with it vanishes the poesía.” The young poets called “Sons of Blas de Otero” take over without breaking the earlier poetry, In the anthology “The poetic group of the 50s” are authors as Bonald, Valverde, Goytisolo poetic … The group of Barcelona and mother as well as other two new ones. The authors have the experience of Civil War, hunger, cold, fear … – Its themes are love, childhood, friendship and Espaaña, and their characteristics: the intimacy, the taste for the memory, mood and sarcasm to stay away from things, free verse, “his work from and for beauty” and the exploration of everyday experiences in which the reader can recognize. / / 3A FROM 1970, newest and POSTNOVISIMOS: Pere Gimferrer creates “Arde el mar” considered a key book because of its brilliant language and original poetic world to mark a new generation and poetic. In “Nine newest Spanish poets” are authors as Manuel Vazquez Montalban, Gimferrer, Foix … With new features: are cultural, reflecting on poetry itself, will have an approximate breakdown of the avant-garde and surrealism, poetry reject the above (except 3 ), is shedding exotic-literary and classical myths, unknown cities like Venice, oriental themes … – As of 75 suffer an evolution in attitudes to lessen its provocative and controversial but remain experimental poetry and metapoetry, so Antonio Colinas Modernism and Romanticism joins Jaime Siles is close to pure poetry and MV Montalban combines traditional with culto.-About 80 appears “figurative poetry” that highlights the excitement, experience, humor … In whose features recovers Bries, Biedma or Valente. Back to traditional metrics, the authors return to the intimacy and individualism with experiences common to their readers. The most significant authors are Julio Llamazares, Felipe Benitez Reyes and Cesar Antonio Molina. / / 4.ULTIMAS TRENDS: The neopurismo influenced by Valente, Miguel Ortega Esperanza Married or appearing on the magazine Valladolid “The sign of the sparrow” .- The new poetry of experience with the group “The other sentimentality” led by Luis Garcia Montero, reunites with realidad.-life and Poetry of silence with an intimacy of romantic inspiration in Andalusia, a neo-romantic intimacy in John Barja with classical metric, and a poetry close to the avant-garde, minimalist, reflective close to the metaphysical and intellectual approaches the mystical with authors such as John Catillo or Valverde.

Pablo Neruda


4etapas distinguish poetic: Poetry of modernist influence “Crepusculario” and “Love Poems and a Song of Despair” which includes the tradition of love poetry with love elusive as the culmination of ser.-surreal period in the suffering a deep existential crisis. “Residence on Earth” gives way to surrealism. The world is one that tends to the death and destruction, visionary images used for the transformation of matter and vocabulary committed destructivo.-Poetry: with a “third home” view of Marxism and political commitment, and transforms the previous Surrealism affirmation of things and beings. Create “Canto general”, an earthy epic poetry about America, is a verse, and torrential. In “Elementary Odes” traditional approaches. During the 50 and 60 alternating social and intimate poetry, “Memorial of the island” .- His most recent books insist on this with themes such as loneliness, the sea, death … With condensed short verses.

Comment: “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair” – The early poems are love this song that breaks with the past: “Body of woman, white hills, white thighs,” you look the world in your attitude “My body entrega. Farmer digs in you, and makes the son leap from the depths of the earth.” After appearing light and shadow, joy and pain, loneliness and melancholy, “Just keep darkness, my distant female, from your look-emerge sometimes the coast of dread.” Appears in the final distance, and the death of love ” I like you calm, because it is as ausente.-distant and painful as if you were dead … “” I can write the saddest lines Night. “To think that I have not. Feel that I’ve lost …. And the fatal outcome in “The Song of Despair.” Love Neruda collected from various perspectives from the purely carnal to the existentialist who mingles with nature and love through a woman as protagonist. Predominantly Alexandrine rhyming assonance in pairs more often.