Overview of Catalan Literature: From Verdaguer to Carner
Jacinto Verdaguer (1845-1902)
The great creator of modern literary Catalan. Author of poetry themed historiopatriotica, Lirica Amatoria during youth. Noted for its sweeping and epic poetry and religious mysticism. Trained in reading Latin classical and romantic authors.
Topic: Reflection desenganyada (text on poetry)
Resources: Hyperbaton / metaphor / personification / Rhetoric question. Chained rhyme / Quartet (10-6)
Miguel Costa i Llobera (1854-1922) – Pine of Formentor
Experiences influence current romantic in its first stage poetry. It OrderNo priest and doctor of theology. Escribi tambien narrative poetry, including the popular fable and fantasy literature.
Genre: Ode
Form: Quintets Alexandrians, hexasilab broken foot. Caesura 6 +6.
Theme: Experience of the landscape, family biographies.
Resources: Metonymy: my heart / personification / comparison.
Joan Maragall (1860-1911) – Blind Cow
He became a poet and intellectual reference modernism. He won a floral games of Bcn. His work as a translator is excellent.
Theme: Contemplation of nature personified / paralelisme decasyllabic / blank verse.
Francesc Vicent Garcia (1579-1623) – To a Beautiful Lady
Known as rector vallfogona is the supreme representative of Catalan Baroque. Cultivated in several genera poetics Which authors Castilians imposed models of prestige. Domain moral poetry.
Topic: Dune woman contemplating QE Sesta hairstyle.
Structure: Two quartets / Tercet
Form: Sonnet verses decasyllabic. Rima cross.
Resources: Antithesis / synaesthesia (a sweet fighter) Hyperbaton (1st verse)
Bonaventura Carles Aribau (1789-1862) – The Nation
Illustrated Fromacio, contributing to the introduction of major romantic authors. Target efforts to translate lempresa Walter Scott. Pass to live in Madrid to work for Lempresari Catalan financier and Gaspar remiss.
Theme: Commitment to the nation / praise of his employer.
Form: Octave / cross rhymes / verses Alexandrina.
Resources: Hyperbole / compare / personification / anaphora.
Jordi de Sant Jordi (1416-1424) – Prisoner
Courtier, poet and music that She was the excellent service King Alfonso V of Aragon. The songbook contains 18 songs with the common feature of fine love, with resources of troubadour poetry. Rcicla old themes and forms.
Topic: Laliberament request.
Form: Octaves / encadenada. Decasilab rhyme.
Resources: Antithesis / anaphora.
Ramon Llull (1232-1316) – You, Santa Maria Virgin Woman
The conversion to Christianity of the new residents was a primary goal of kings, intellectuals and preachers Lords and to preserve social cohesion. Ramon Llull devoted life and work. Lllull developed a method to rationally argue the principles of Christianity.
Topic: The love of the Virgin Mary.
Form: Decasyllabic Two couplets of verses (first 4 and last two) two remaining 8. chorus verse 4. censorship 4 +6 4 +4.
Resources: Anaphora: you-> love for the Virgin Mary Metonymy: 14.
Ausiàs March (1400-1459)
Ausias renewed forms dexpresio poetiqes. Based on the troubadour tradition and recycling materials that were outside. (Classical Latin ..) Sinteresa in lanalisi of love poetry and sves diseases, the conflict between desire and moral conscience.
Topic: Death by Lamor.
Form: Stanzas of decasyllabic verses. 5 octaves. Cross rhyme.
Resources: Hyperbole throughout the poem.
Guillem de Berguedà (1138-1196) – Cansoneta Up and Flat
Arrauixat was a feudal lord and violent, uses poetry as a weapon to attack their enemies, and denigrate them publicly. William avoids the clichés of the time.
Form: Cobla. Heptasilabs.
Genre: Sirventes.
Resources: Ironia / hyperbole / simile / litote (2a)
Cerverí de Girona – No’l Prenatz it Fake Husband
Troubadour aulic serving the court of King James I. songs very extensive and rich. His production is characterized by a variety of shapes, styles and registers used. poetry often marked by a deep moral reflection.
Form: Viadera, and heptasilabs pentasyllable.
Resources: Anaphora / periphrasis / satire.
Josep Carner (1884-1970) – Belgium
Created a new style of political journalism. He fought for profesionalitzacio Catalan literature. was one of the few diplomats who remained loyal to the Republic.
Form: Verses Alexandrina.
Resources: Comparison / personification.
Rhetorical Resources
- Aliteracio: Repeat
- Paranomasia: Sounds like: putting together two or more words
- Onomatopoeia: Imitate natural sounds
- Anaphora: Repeat the same expression in early verse
- Paralelisme: Repeat syntactic structure
- Polisindeton: Necessary month of conjunctions
- Asyndeton: Ometres conjunctions
- Overlapping: A phrase not do QE sajusti the limits of verse
- Hyperbaton: Lord alter normal words
- Comparison: A is like B
- Metaphor: A is B
- Personification: Attributing human qualities
- Metonymy: Designate something else with the name dun s
- Inocdeque: Designate a concept with another larger
- Hyperbole: Exaggeration of qualities
- Synaesthesia: Two sensations fields sensaorials
- Antithesis: Two concepts have different meanings QE