Miguel Hernández: Themes of Nature, Love, and Life in His Poetry
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Topics: Nature, love, life, and death.
1. The Theme of Nature
Miguel Hernández was born in a rural environment near the Mediterranean. He lived impregnated with nature and was a great connoisseur and lover of wildlife, flora, and the mineral world of the Levantine environment. Nature comes in many forms in four stages (works).
In his first stage of adolescence and as a young artist, the real nature appears in the character of
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