"death in the freezer"

Love life and death: The poetry Hernández Miguel include three main themes: love, life and death. These three thematic issues will be found in its poetry and its treatment will evolve over the work of MH

In his first book, Expert in Lunas, love is closely linked to sensuality and sex, as the love theme is treated more carnal, and images and symbols that evoke the sexual elements are common. Examples of these references are "snake" when speaking of the penis or "nacre hostile" making the female body. Perito en Lunas In spite of the continuity of themes vitalita to nature, get a melancholic tone that pervades the landscape of sadness. This can be seen in the poem of Granada, which looks like an open wound. However, in the lightning that this treatment does not stop love with Petrarchan influence of courtly love change radically, and love becomes an element that haunts the writer and would suffer a deep wound. This change of style is because according to most philologists that causes pain to the writer's rejection of her lovers, but also other industry argues that the poems are addressed to his wife. The pain the poet is shown with the use of instruments of pain like knives, stones, atmospheric phenomena like lightning, or features like the bull, animal born to mourn. In this collection also shows the sexual love, as in I threw a lemon, lemon is where the metaphor of a breast. In fact I have three bones penalties, which is an ode to masturbation thinking of his beloved. The melancholy view the Lightning will increase with respect to expert, is a work in which life is defined as death caused by the pain of love, pain that is shown by symbols like the sword, wine, etc..

His next book, Winds of the people, wrote in the Civil War began, he takes sides with the Republican side, meets the love poetry of war and encouraging, as a call to fight for the people and defeat the enemy. Prison appears to defend his ideal love, and shows how a bird sings of freedom. This poetry becomes painful and pessimistic. The poet is aware of the consequences of war: death, hunger ... And shows the devastation in Spain where he lives, because death is a symbol of horror, such as "Sitting on the dead." Finally, Song and Ballad of absence, is reached poetic maturity of love, it becomes heartbreaking and hurtful. His stay in prison, coupled with the death of his son, caused by this new style. Alludes to the woman as mother and wife in "increasingly present, which is torn by lightning at not being able to be with his wife. It also refers to the womb as a symbol of life and protection, as in less your stomach. In addition, the agony, desolation and nostalgia, appear in the poems that deal with his dead son. His illness was another factor for which he wrote poetry of desolation