Modern Languages

Modernism: artistic movement that began around 1880 and continued until World War 1 (1914). modernism is a movement primarily aesthetic: the search for beauty, unique means of escape from everyday reality and to disagree with it, is the main reason artistico.Esta search of beauty is reflected in historical and legendary delineations (evasion in time and space). These evocations of the past abound nymphs and mythological gods, palaces and castles, cisnes.Otro topic is the expression of personal privacy (Modernist interior, romantic inspiration): the vexation, the weariness and sadness. Antonio Machado: born in Seville in 1875, lived in Madrid since he was eight años.En 1907 moved to soria, he taught French until soria 1912.En married in 1909 with leonor leonor izquierdo.Al death in 1912 left the ciudad.Decidido machado supporter of the republic was forced to flee to France shortly before the end of Civil War in January 1939, and Collioure, died a month despues.Escribio especially poesia.Sus most important books are:. Solitudes, gallery and other worlds (1907), with early influences modernist, modernism or intimate interior.El dominant theme is the expression of personal feeling: melancholy and nostalgia, the passage of time, death, memories and vocations of the past, often etc.Utiliza symbols: the power and water, the way the afternoon, gardening in shade, the wheel .. Castilas fields (1912 and 1917). A central theme was the description of the land soria, prototype of the Castilian landscape, austere, arid and gray, reflections, critiques and painful, on Spain and its decay .. New songs (1924), book varied: traditional metric forms, short poems of a philosophical nature. juan ramon jimenez: born in moguer (huelva) in 1881.La death of his father gave him a deep crisis that forced him to stay at a sanatorium in southern France and madrid.Es 1936 Civil War broke out, beginning a long exile in various countries of America. Was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Puerto Rico literatura.Murio all 1958.Dedico his life to poesia.Obsesionado to achieve perfection and beauty, and corrected continuously ordered his first major book was versos.Su sad arias (1903) focused on themes of melancholy, solitude, the passage of time and muerte.Este type of poetry with echoes of becquer influenced by symbolism, respond too distant gardens of primavera.Son ballads are poems Majico modernist influence and suffering and loneliness of a poet recently sonora.Diario house (1917) following a vieaje to New York for their wedding marks the beginning of the nude poetry and intellectual short poems in free verse without rhyme or express the essence of things, poetry of ideas, rather than of classes sentimientos.Juan jimenez wrote an book of poetic prose, silversmith and to.