Miguel Hernández: A Journey Through His Poetic Stages

First Stage

His operas are characterized by a search for his own poetic language and the conservative influence of Ramón Sijé. Perito en Lunas and El Rayo que no Cesa. The first work is 40 stanzas of influence and vanguard. The Gongorine author has to poetry as an equal to the mystical experience in which the hermetic is essential. Incorporated in the genre of poetry riddles and proposes riddles. In El Rayo que no Cesa, a previous text to poems, the underlying theme is a love that cannot be complete because moral standards prevent access to his beloved. Erotic passion, the lightning symbol conveys the passionate fire in which the lover is consumed, while the wound suggests that this conception of love causes him torture. It arouses ideas of destruction and death. This feeling is linked to the tragic figure of the bull, which represents virility, passion, and freedom, united in death. This work is characterized by the perfection of their sonnets. The Elegía a Ramón Sijé is written in triplet chains and is one of the most beautiful poems of the Spanish lyric.

Second Stage

It is marked by the influence of Pablo Neruda and his conception of impure poetry. To this belong: Viento del Pueblo. Dedicated to this work, he feels Aleixandre. In this, his poetry is the voice of the people, whose feelings he needs to understand and share. His verses are loaded with anguish and protest against the suffering of the poor and children. Love goes this time to women, land, and dislocated people.

El Hombre Acecha

Dedicated to Neruda. Nuanced by the disappointment and sadness at the way events take place. The war is revealed in its most terrible and bloody way, and it discovers the true nature of man assaulted. Hunger appears as one of the causes of this aggression.

Last Poems

Written in prison, they will be collected in the Cancionero y Romancero de Ausencias. They revolve around this sense of absence: of one son who died, the second, and his wife, whom he cannot see, and also the absence of freedom. Pain fills his verses, and hunger appears... Nanas de la Cebolla. The author recalls a war that only caused hatred but raises the banner of love, which is hope.