Spanish Poets: Cernuda, Hernández, Alberti, and Salinas
Luis Cernuda
Stage of learning: Early poems express solitude before nature. Discovery of unfulfilled love (eclogue, elegy, ode) has romantic influence from Bécquer, Salinas, and Fray.
Stage of youth: Adopts and exploits surrealism. A rebellious and subversive poet. A river, love, search for the unknown. The forbidden pleasures: vindication of his homosexuality. Invocations: A set of 10 long poems, it celebrates passion and final disappointment. Nature becomes a refuge. It develops the theme of religiosity (as in statues of the gods).
Stage of maturity:
- Clouds: Feels personal problems and political exile. Religious and ancient beauty, the problems of Spain, union of poet and landscape.
- As he awaits the dawn: Focuses on man’s destiny and historical events. Presents a wide range of issues.
- Living without living: Evokes the lost friend, youth, and the obsession with death and oblivion.
- With DOA: Dominated by the love and presence of the beloved.
Final Stage: Desolation of the Chimera: Laments an aged heart with longings and unfulfilled desires. Reminds most beloved and cherished writers, devotes little tribute. He wrote several studies of literary criticism, poetry and literature.
Miguel Hernández
Pure Poetry: Perito en lunas, develops scenes of daily life and various topics in a mix of religion and popular culture.
Neo-Romantic Poetry: The ray is not that does not stop combines neogongorismo and expression of their feelings. Topics: love, pain, and joy.
Literature of emergency: Political situation where poetry is a tool for maintaining the morale of soldiers and indoctrinating about the struggle. Wind the people, the stalking man.
Inner exploration: At the death of his son and his imprisonment, he wrote Ballad songbook and absences, talks about the lack of what gives life meaning.
Rafael Alberti
Neopopularismo Poetry: Revaluation of Spanish folk poetry.
Neogongorina or avant-garde poetry: Influenced by Góngora, and Cal and song, poems sprinkled with avant-garde dyes, classic sonnet, and preciousness.
Surrealist Poetry: Adherence to surrealism and a deep personal crisis explains the radical change that occurs in his poetry.
Civil and political poetry: Social and political issues. The poet on the street, Madrid, capital of glory.
Nostalgic Poetry: In exile, writing new poems that evoke childhood, youth, and landscape. Return of the living far and ballads.
Pedro Salinas
Considered the quintessential poet of love. In his compositions, he addresses this issue in all its forms: love, pain, confidential…
His poetry is divided into three stages:
Initial stage: Marked by the influence of pure poetry. WORKS: Omens, Secure, Sign chance, and Fable.
Fullness stage: Consists of the Trilogy of love: Voice your due, love, and miss ratio regret.
- Voice due to you: The poet addresses his beloved and maintains a dialogue with her about the abstract world. She is the origin of poetry and love. The work depicts the story of a passionate love, from birth until the end. In the first compositions, he seeks confirmation of the love of the beloved. But the separation of lovers, following the dismissal, is the shadow of the beloved, always accompanying.
- Reason to love: Examines what remains of love when it’s over.
- Largo lamento: Follows on from previous work.
Stage in exile: The author speaks with the sea of San Juan de Puerto Rico. All clear and other poems is the theme of creation through the word. Trust is a joyous affirmation of the reality experienced.