Psychological, Social, and Linguistic Factors in Poetry

Psychological and Social Causes in Poetry

These include emotional factors, expressive, social, and cultural constraints, and political and ideological reasons.

Social Euphemisms

Euphemisms are words or expressions that supersede taboos. Imbalances by equalities, Blind, blindness... Restriction of general meanings; they acquire specialized meanings. Mouse, menu, or network (computer). Extension of social, cultural, or certain professional terms that go into general use: Ghetto (quarter of a minority), Virus (computing).

Language Grounds

Change is influenced by the context in which the word is used: cut (coffee cut), compact (compact disc).

Types of Poems

The triplets, lira, encadenados, la la, the eighth Real, soneto, estancia, and the Sapphic Stanza.

Garcilaso de la Vega

The short work of Garcilaso (forty sonnets, three Eclogues, five songs, two elegies, and an epistle) produced the most important Spanish lyric revolution and became the model for later poets.

Themes and Evolution

The lyrical theme of love is expressed from melancholy and sadness because of frustration or lack of love. As he relates to nature, presented in its perfection with the locus amoenus topic, reflecting the inner world of poetic shelter for your pain.

In other poems, he addresses the themes of friendship, fate, fortune, or the need to master the passions.

In his early poems, the influence of song-poetry, written in a torn tone and own resources of lyric cancionero, is evident.

In 1532, he made more contact with Petrarchan poetry.

Las Eclogues

They are lyrical compositions in which some shepherds put their complaints in an idealized love environment. They share themes like love and suffering for having lost or not being matched:

• Eclogue I: Has an introduction and dedication; contains monologues of two shepherds (Salicio and Nemoroso) dealing with the pain of rejection and death of the beloved.
• Eclogue II: The first part focuses on the pain and madness of unrequited love: that of Albania towards Camilla. Albanio attempts suicide and tells of their misadventures. The second part contains the praise of the deeds of the house of Alba.
• Eclogue III: It tells the story of stories that weave four nymphs on the banks of the Tagus; 3 are mythological tales, and the fourth concerns the death of Elisa, Nemer's beloved. Includes love songs of the shepherds Alcino and Tirreno. It uses real-eighth.