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Spanish Verbs: Tenses and Moods

Indicative Mood

• Preterite Imperfect: singing
• Preterite Perfect Simple: I sang
• Future Imperfect/Conditional Simple: sing
• Preterite Perfect Compound: I sang
• Preterite Pluperfect: had sung
• Preterite Anterior: I had sung
• Future Perfect: I will have sung
• Conditional Perfect: could sing

Subjunctive Mood

• Present: singing
• Preterite Perfect: has sung
• Preterite Imperfect/Preterite Pluperfect: had sung
• Future Imperfect: sing
• Future Perfect: he has sung

Non-Personal Forms

• Gerund: singing
• Participle: sung

Verbal Expressions

• Obligation: haber de, tener que, deber
• Probability: deber de, poder, venir a

Verbal Aspects

• Inchoative: burst out, get to, begin to
• Repetitive: go back to
• Terminative: finish, stop
• Durative: being, walking, followed
• Resultative:

Modernism

Modernism began in the late nineteenth century, originating in Latin America. It was created and disseminated by José Martí and Rubén Darío. The publication of Azul (Rubén Darío) in 1888 is considered the starting point of modernism.

Features

Modernist literature is characterized by its aestheticism, meaning it seeks beauty above all else. At that time, authors escaped reality in their works, speaking of the past, luxurious and refined or exotic civilizations. The themes expressed feelings like boredom and melancholy. They also used symbols, such as the swan or the owl, which became symbols of modernist aesthetics.

The Generation of 98

This was a group of authors born in the late nineteenth century who covered topics such as the...

The Minerva Generation and Galician Literary Renewal

The Minerva Generation is formed by writers born between 1930 and 1940 who began publishing their works in the fifties and carried out a profound renewal of Galician literature.

Generational Characteristics

They all share some generational characteristics:

• The majority have a university education. During their college years, they participated in events like the Minerva Festival (literary competitions organized by the University of Santiago where narrative and poetic works written in Galician were awarded), and wrote for the newspaper La Noche, among other activities.
• They are monolingual Galician writers.
• Aware of the lack of freedom existing in Spain at the time due to the dictatorship, they maintained

The Story of Martin Zalacaín

It is the story of Martin Zalacaín, a young Basque from Urbia who lost his father and mother. He was educated by his uncle, Miguel de Tellagorri, who took charge of him and his sister, Ignacia, after the death of their mother. Following a puppet show, he met Linda. While the old Tellagorri fell ill and passed away, Martin had to take care of his sister, who was left in the charge of Mrs. Agatha of Ohando.

Martin was hated by her son, Carlos Ohando, but he maintained a courtship with her daughter, Catalina. Later, Ignacia married Bautista Urbide, a friend of Martin. Then the last Carlist War began, but Martin, Bautista, and another colleague, Capistun, continued their smuggling business across the French and Spanish...

20th Century Hispanic American Literature

Poesía Hispanoamericana: Breaking with Modernismo

This movement marked the break with Modernismo approaches, favoring plain, simple, and even colloquial language.

Pablo Neruda: Poet, Diplomat, and Nobel Laureate

The Chilean poet and diplomat resided in Madrid until the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known book is Twenty Love Poems and a Desperate Song.

Octavio Paz: Surrealism and Global Influences

The Mexican diplomat lived in France, where he encountered Surrealism. His travels to Spain, India, and Japan allowed him to become familiar with the poetry and thought of these countries. Important works include Freedom under Parole and East Slope.

The 20th Century Novel:

The World in the Twentieth Century

Technological Advances and Major Conflicts

Technological advances marked the 20th century, alongside two World Wars and the Cold War.

Spain in the 20th Century

Politics and Society

1. Economy and Society: A rural country with little industry, marked by social differences and anarchism.
2. Politics: Spain lost its American colonies. Subsequent events included the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the proclamation of the Second Republic, the Civil War, and finally, the establishment of General Franco's dictatorship.

20th Century European Literature

The 20th century opens with a crisis of conscience resulting from discontent and weariness with the previous century. Principal movements include:

1. Parnassianism

Seeking escape...

Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)

The lyrics of Federico Garcia Lorca possess great musicality, both when the poet uses traditional metrics—the octosyllabic in gypsy romances—and in avant-garde compositions like Poet in New York, in predominantly free verse. Another stylistic feature is the plasticity of his images, which have a clear relationship with the surrealist movement. Federico Garcia Lorca's poems depict human tragedy, where higher forces, represented by social conventions, political trends, and, above all, death, prevent happiness. Other notable works of this poet's lyrics, who is probably the best known of his generation, include the Poem of Flamenco Singing and the elegy mourning the death of Ignacio Sánchez Mejías.

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Heritage Words: Latin Roots in Castilian

Heritage words are derived from Latin and have been part of Castilian Spanish since its origins. They undergo phonetic changes that result in words distinct from their Latin predecessors.

Romanticism in Spain: Ideals and Development

Romanticism was a social and artistic movement that flourished during the first half of the nineteenth century. Its principal objective was the exercise of the right to liberty. In Spain, it developed late because the political situation during the absolutist reign of Ferdinand VII did not allow the expression of its ideology. However, after the death of this monarch in 1833, Romanticism lasted until the second half of the century.

Key Characteristics of Spanish Romanticism:

• Expression

Realism (Second Half of the 19th Century)

Realism sought to represent reality in accordance with the interests of the bourgeoisie. Key characteristics include:

• Focus on the social self, abandoning the individual self.
• Presentation of everyday life (country, city, etc.).
• Analysis of landscapes and social groups.
• Reflection of an objective reality.

Characteristics of the Realist Novel

• Focus on the individual and the social self.
• Elements of historical fiction mixed with contemporary settings and real places.
• Detailed character descriptions (exterior, interior, and social position).
• Dialogue presented in direct style.
• Use of an omniscient narrator.

Spanish Realism (c. 1870)

José María de Pereda

• Novels are set in rural Cantabria.
• Idealized portrayal of rural

Pedro Salinas: "I Do Not Want to Live..."

For the poet, the essence of a woman is paramount. Everything else is merely an addition used to dress her. The essence of the couple is summarized in a "you and me," individualized by love.

• Structure: This poem is a couplet in seven-syllable lines with assonant rhyme, with the exception of verse 14 (trisyllabic) and verse 27 (tetrasyllabic: 3+1).
• Themes:
  • In verse 2, the poet rejects luxury and exotic settings (islands, palaces, towers) in favor of pronouns.
  • Verses 5-6 reflect how external additions (costumes, signs, pictures) blur a woman's true essence.
  • Verse 10 presents the woman without additives: pure, free, and irreducible.
  • Verses 19-20 name elements used to reach the essence (names, signs, history),