The Passionate Love Poetry of Hernandiana

If I had to define Hernandiana's poetry, we would call it "love poetry." Three injured Hernandiana themes are love, life, and death. The first is the one that wounds you more deeply and abundantly, causing your heart to bleed with passionate wounds. His love is manifested in his poetry in several phases and variants.

Early Expressions of Love

In his first book of poems, moons Proficient, the theme of love appears with a clear intention of a sexual nature. This is demonstrated by the eighth poem, "Sex and the Moment." The baroque Gongora style of these compositions does not prevent the discovery of the sexual connotations they contain. This sexuality is endowed with a certain mysticism in the compositions belonging to Perito on moons, where fruit similes are used to refer to sex, as in "Fig Unknown."

The Ray That Does Not Stop

The ray that does not stop begins with a beautiful dedication to the sonnets loved with great intensity and perfect structure. This book accentuates love, where passion becomes tormented by unsatisfied longing and yearning for possession.

Wind Village and Social Warfare

Although some analysts classify his book Wind Village within poetry and social warfare, its content can also be included in the section of love poetry or emotional feelings, as the entire epic poem book is a hymn to the people who fight for justice and freedom. This book is dedicated to Vicente Aleixandre, a poet with whom he shares great friendship and admiration, and it includes poems dedicated to two women who deserve his affection and regard for their dedication to the Republican cause: "Rosario Dynamite" and "Passion."

Constant Themes of Love

In Man Stalks, we can see that the constant reference to the theme of love is present throughout all his work. This is a more mature love, cast in struggle and despair. However, while the epic tone and combative spirit are evident, an emotional substrate is given in different compositions.

Ballads of Love and Absence

In his latest collection of poems, Ballads, Songbook, and Absences, we find the theme of love through the vision of his deceased child, Miguel. Through this songbook, he distills the blood produced by the wounds of the triple absence of his wife, his son, and freedom. This book is a summit of love poetry, a concentration of all human values of love and poetic expression.

The Presence of Absence

The presence or absence of his son, Miguel, who died early, lies throughout the book of poems. For example: "Son of Light and Shadow." The wife, absent during the war and his imprisonment, motivates nostalgic love poems like "See You Later." Although death came early, Miguel spent his brief cycle as a complete poet of love and a total love poet. His work reflects the passionate life of a man with a passion for life, to which he had a big heart, as he himself acknowledged.