17th Century Spanish Baroque Poetry: Themes and Styles
17th Century Spanish Baroque Poetry
The Baroque poets reflect the contradiction between the ideal and light classical revival and a new pessimistic and disillusioned outlook.
Themes in Baroque Poetry
Love remains the favorite theme, but it is linked to a reflection on the transience of life, death, and the passage of time.
The passage of time is reflected in the short life of the rose and the lily, and in ancient ruins.
They continue using mythological themes, but choose tragic stories starring an antihero.
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- Camilo José Cela: The Family of Pascual Duarte. This work initiates tremendismo, exploring the story in its most crude aspects: poverty, violence, etc. Pascual Duarte is a peasant dominated by vengeful and violent instincts, who ends up becoming a serial murderer.
- Carmen
Caravaggio’s Final Years: Naples, Melancholy, and Masterpieces
Caravaggio’s Final Years in Naples
Movement heads in different directions, with a diagonal that takes us out of the scene on the opposite side. They are not smooth bodies or envelopes, but have spots that show the beginning of the decomposition of the body.
Naples, October 1609
He lives in the palace of Constance Sforza Colonna, Marchioness of Caravaggio (returns to his origins: his father was an architect of the Sforza family and protected by the Marquis of Caravaggio).
Some of his works were destroyed
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Key Figures and Their Contributions
- Pío Baroja: Born in San Sebastián, Baroja’s works are anti-traditionalist, atheist, and turbulent. His novels feature maladjusted characters and Basque/Madrid landscapes. Dialogue is prominent, resembling theater.
- Miguel de Unamuno: Born in Bilbao in 1864,
Latin Prepositions and Case Translations
Complements
Cum + Ablative
Translates to:
- Addition of something
- Increase in company
- Increase in union
In + Ablative
Translates to:
- The increase was in place
De + Ablative
Translates to:
- Increase in movement from place
- Increase in field
- Additional argument
- Complement of source (originally shown as a pronoun or common name)
- Increase in guilt (with typical expressions of the law)
- Additional removal or separation
E/Ex + Ablative
Translates to:
- Increase in movement from place
- Increase in field
- Additional removal or separation
- Partitive