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Second Half of the 19th Century

Poetry: Based on Feelings

Topics

• Love, frustration, and the ineffable inner world.
• Style: Short poems, assonance rhyme.
• Techniques: Anaphora and parallelism.
• Sensations conveyed through connotations and symbols.

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

• Themes: Frustration, impossible love, loneliness, anguish.
• Style: Lyrical poetry with rhymes.

Romantic Theater

Characteristics

• Drama that rejects classical rules regarding place, time, and action.
• Literary model: The tragic impossible love, typical of the Golden Age.
• Characters: Passionate, liberal, and rebellious heroes who die when confronting societal rules.
• Settings: Sepulchral environments, often at night.
• Language: Rhetoric predominates.
• Structure: Metrical and strophic variety, mixing prose

Latin Colloquium

Dialogue: Family and Profession

- Is this your father in the village?
- No, my father is absent.

- Where is your father?
- He is a merchant and must navigate a large ship to Greece.

- My father is brave and not afraid of the sea. My father is also brave, but never sails; he always travels by foot or carriage.

- Why not visit your father?
- My father is a doctor in the city, not a merchant, and the city is not possible to navigate.

Vocabulary and Etymology

• Numquam: Never
• Absentem: Absent
• Antiquum: Very ancient / Old
• Pedem: Foot / Pedal
• Aqua: Water / Aquarium
• Quattuor: Four
• Capitalem: Capital / Flow
• Corpus: Corps / Corporal
• Rationem: Reason
• Latus: Lateral / Side

La Vía de la Plata

The route from Asturica Augusta (Astorga) to Emerita Augusta (Mérida)...

Mercè Rodoreda's La Plaça del Diamant: A Thematic Analysis

Colometa's Early Life and Alienation (Chapters I-XVII)

The main character's submission begins to change her husband, and the process of alienation takes place. Colometa's relationship with Quimet approaches that of a servant. The loss of Colometa's personality culminates with the arrival of the Second Republic, making her feel frustrated.

The Civil War: Maturation and Solitude (Chapters XVIII-XXXII)

The drama intensifies for Colometa. Her husband, Quimet, is killed at the front. Colometa struggles to find work. Her internal rebellion coincides with Natalia's growing aversion to the pigeons. The Civil War begins, and Colometa's father dies. She places her children in a refugee colony....

Galician-Portuguese Lyric Poetry: The Cantigas

• Cantigas de Amigo: A woman mourns the absence of her beloved.
• Cantigas de Amor: A man sings of the love he feels for his beloved.
• Cantigas de Escarnio: Satirical poems ridiculing a specific person.

Mester de Juglaría: The Minstrels

The juglares were traveling performers who entertained people with shows, recitations, and music in castles and public squares, often working in exchange for food or money. Their literary work, known as Mester de Juglaría, served as a vehicle for spreading news and manners. It is characterized by irregular meter and themes centered on heroic exploits.

El Poema de Mio Cid

This 12th-century manuscript, signed by Per Abbat in 1307, consists of 3,730 irregular verses grouped...

Literary Giants: Modernism and the Generation of '98

Rubén Darío (1867–1916)

Nicaraguan poet. He served as Ambassador to France and was greatly influenced by the Parisian bohemian atmosphere. His three representative works include:

• Azul
• Prosas Profanas
• Cantos de vida y esperanza

His style was widely imitated in Spain, notably by Antonio Machado and Juan Ramón Jiménez.

Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958)

Spanish poet. In his earlier books, such as Arias Tristes, he reflected the romantic sensibility of Bécquer. He later embraced Modernism, influenced by R. Darío (e.g., La soledad sonora). He eventually returned to his original style, known as "naked poetry" (e.g., Diario de un poeta recién casado).

He went into exile and adopted a more reflective...

Expository Writing: Brochure Features

Expository writing is used to raise awareness about an issue of general interest.

Features:

• Aims to inform, explain, convince, and suggest solutions.
• Presents information in a clear, direct, and attractive way.
• The content is displayed following a logical, hierarchical, and coherent order.
• The receptor recognizes authority on a certain topic.
• The brochure is a work of collective effort.
• Uses present tense and standard language.

Resources: Typographical Brands

Explanatory texts have a formal aspect, using various types of fonts and letters, hyphens, periods, colors, numbers, underscores, captions, or titles. These brands have two functions:

• Specify the order.
• Highlight important information.

Schema: Key Connectors for

Baroque Literary Figures: Góngora, Quevedo, Lope de Vega

Luis de Góngora (Córdoba, 1561-1627)

Its principal representative is Luis de Góngora (Córdoba, 1561-1627). His culto works include the great poems Fable of Polyphemus (1612), Galatea, and The Solitudes (1613). These are poems of great complexity, both for his contemporaries and for readers today. However, Góngora's inspiration also led him to write popular compositions, including letrillas that highlight romantic and sentimental themes, or satirical ballads. These ballads are varied: Moorish, loving, or burlesque. Along with Lope de Vega and other poets, he contributed to what were called the New Ballads.

Conceptismo: Ingenious Thought and Wit

Characteristics of Conceptismo

Conceptismo...

Understanding Scientific Description

The scientific description rigorously reports the characteristic features of objects, beings, phenomena, and processes.

Key Features of Scientific Description

• Clarity and Accuracy: Ensures information is precise and easy to understand.
• Objectivity: Presents reality without bias, avoiding personal opinions or interpretations.
• Rigor and Verifiability: Features must be updated and verifiable through empirical evidence.

Types of Scientific Description

• Static: Presents a fixed and stable reality.
• Dynamic: Presents a phenomenon in process or evolution.

Essential Grammar Concepts

The Subject in Sentences

The subject is a function of the nominal group. It always agrees with the verb in number and person.

Impersonal Sentences

TOPICS OF THE GENERATION OF 27.

The subjects of this generation are, firstly, the own of poetry of all time: love, death, loneliness, etc ... Alongside these are two new songs. First, the poems of those born as a game, as the expression of the inconsequential. Second, these poets developed, in its stage of maturity, social issues and commitment.

• Love: Almost all the poets of the generation of 27 have sung of love. But perhaps the great love poets are three: Cernuda and Aleixandre Salinas.

Cernuda and Aleixandre To love is conceived as a total surrender. Inherited a romantic vision of love. For Salinas, love is a daily effort. Must be held in time and protect you from love.

• The time lost. Is a fundamental issue in the generation of...

The Poetic Group of Generation '27

The poetic group of 27: The most important poets are Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén, Gerardo Diego, Federico García Lorca, Vicente Aleixandre, Rafael Alberti, Luis Cernuda and Dámaso Alonso.

Neopopularismo

Neopopularismo: Characterized by short compositions in short verse, some with a chorus, and by great lyrical intensity through repetition, parallelism and the elimination of superficial elements.

Classical Influence and Pure Poetry

Classical influence and pure poetry: Poets of the Generation of '27 received strong influences from the Spanish classics, especially from Góngora, and from more recent authors such as Bécquer and Juan Ramón Jiménez. The classical influence is visible in the use of forms like the...