Spanish Renaissance Lyric Poetry: Garcilaso, Fray Luis, San Juan
Garcilaso de la Vega: Poet of Love and Nature
Themes
- Petrarchan Conception of Love: When describing his beloved, Garcilaso always represents the Petrarchan ideal of feminine beauty: bright eyes, white hands, and a beautiful neck. This beauty is physical as well as spiritual.
- Idealized Nature: He portrays a refined and harmonious nature, reflecting a desire for rest and peace that corresponds to the literary topic of the pleasant place (locus amoenus).
- Mythology: He incorporates myths that combine love,
Cervantes, Don Quixote & Spanish Baroque Literature
Topic 8: Discussion Forums & Cervantes
Discussion Forums
These are internet services that allow the exchange of information and opinions among people interested in a particular subject. The exchange occurs through messages sent to a server, which then distributes the message to those subscribed to the forum, initiating a chain of responses.
Cervantes’ Works
Poetry: He wrote Viaje del Parnaso.
Theater: His theatrical work has two stages:
- First Stage: Followed classical precepts and rules. Works include
Spanish Ballads, La Celestina, and Renaissance Literature
The Spanish Romance (El Romance)
Short compositions formed by a variable number of eight-syllable verses (octosyllables) with assonant rhyme in the even-numbered lines and no rhyme in the odd-numbered lines. They are anonymous epic poems, considered works of collective authorship. Among their most important features are:
- Brevity and simplicity
- Direct presentation of reality
- Abundant use of repetition
- Predominance of action over description
- Presence of rapid dialogues
La Celestina
In 1499, the Comedia de
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Love, Death, and Social Themes in Poetry
Death. Failure can lead to love-death, whose presence is a mystery. Man goes to it, inevitably fulfilling their destiny.
The Children
This stage of life is the age of innocence.
The Social
It manifests in two ways: first, moral impositions, which thwart created lives; and secondly, a reality that always punishes the helpless. The style has a role reminiscent of the words, the presence of symbols, the visionary image, the impressionist trend, and the importance
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Speaking: Character: Literary genre written in prose, conceived as the art of speaking well, with correction, persuasively, and convincingly, linked to freedom of expression. Theoretical rhetoric is the art of discourse. The Greeks and Romans achieved high levels in this art, combining functionality and aesthetics. In Greece, schools of rhetoric opened, the Asian (exuberant style, long periods) and Attic (austere and sober). The main scenarios which allowed the development of this genre were the
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Avant-Garde Literature
New Art: Avant-garde literature is a form of expression that aims to break the formal and aesthetic mold of previous artistic trends.
Avant-Garde: These are artistic movements that sought to radically break with all previous aesthetic canons, provoking reflection on the artwork.
Current Cutting-Edge Movements
Futurism
The First Futurist Manifesto was published by the Italian poet Marinetti. Its favorite subjects are technical advances of the moment, the urban world, innovative
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