Antonio Machado: Poetics and Analysis of His Works
Poetics
Back in 1912, the portrait gives us fundamental data. It can be debatable, due to passion or vehemence, that sometimes appears in his verses. In their stance before Modernism and the aesthetic, they reject pure poetry conceived as such. By contrast, full acceptance of poetry has its root in the cordial, the human: “The universal feeling.” Independence from fashion, or defense of labels, and obedience to the compromised poetry of poetry itself, and with it, the poetic reality. Machado has
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Thematic elements, almost Hernandian, are perpetuated throughout his work. According to statements by his former widow, Josephine, the poet never wrote at home; he always wrote in the fields and mountains. He was a pastor, comfortable writing even on the back of a goat.
In his early writings, a close linkage between his pastoral role and his everyday poetic expression is evident. He shows exalted feelings in poems like “Singing Love Exalted Nature.” All his poetry is enveloped in a sense of the natural
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Destruction and Rebirth in Fahrenheit 451
As the city is destroyed (“as quick as the whisper of a scythe the war was finished”), Montag’s thoughts return to Millie. He imagines what the last moments of her life must have been like. He pictures her looking at her wall television set. Suddenly, the television screen goes blank, and Millie is left seeing only a mirror image of herself. Montag imagines that just before her death, Millie finally sees and knows for herself how superficial and empty her
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“Giant Anthem”: Reflections on Poetry and Language
The poem reflects on the inadequacy of language to express the deepest sentiments. It explores how human language struggles to convey the full spectrum of emotion, feeling, and beauty found in poetry.
Summary
The poet describes a “giant anthem” (poetry) filled with desires that transcend mere words, encompassing sighs and laughter. The line, “But in vain is to fight,” highlights the futility of trying to fully capture meaning with language, acknowledging
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Poetic Uses of Metaphor
The poetic uses of metaphor, “red” to describe the fact that they would be burning. But in reality, to the poetic, is it not sad that it had just burned, but burning in “a miserable hut?” Surely a farmer who lives in the country, as indicated by the verse: “at the edge of a path,” and not in the city, at the home of someone who is well accommodated. That would be the real shame.
Multiple Interpretations
Then, it leads to another possibility: the fact that it was torn by a whirlwind.
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Romance de la Pena Negra: Soledad Montoya’s Frustration
PENALTY: Lorca called *Romance de la Pena Negra* “the most representative” of the *Gypsy Ballads*, written between 1924 and 1927, and published in 1928. The poem achieved stunning success, which would eventually overwhelm the poet. It is certainly the cornerstone of the book and one of his poems with the clearest meaning. Soledad Montoya represents the craving for personal fulfillment. She converses with a character who represents the voice
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