History
The Modernismo Movement began in the late 1800s and spread to Spain in the 20th century first decades. Its greatest influences were French symbolism and the Parnassian school poets. The elements that also could be detected were those of the classical Spanish poetry and the influence of American poets such as Edgar Allen Poe and Walt Whitman. Modernismo practicioners often set their poems in exotic landscapes dispersed with swans, peacocks, lillies, princesses and other nobility and aristocracy symbols. Although the symbols seem purely escapist, they were actually meant to emphasize the materialism and vulgarity of everyday life by creating a world of unadulterated beauty. The Cuban revolutionary and poet José Martí was a forerunner for the Modernismo movement, which can trace its birth to the publication of a book by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío. The movement became one of the first Latin American movements to influence the Spanish peninsula and notably influence writers like Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and others of the '98 Generation. Modernismo itself was largely over by 1920, it continued influencing Spanish and Latin American poets throughout the 20th century. One of its influences was a Brazilian renaissance, also named modernismo, enacted by Mário and Oswald de Andrade.
Antonio Machado- Fields of SoriaHills of silver plate,
grey heights, dark red rocks through which the Duero bends its crossbow arc round Soria, shadowed oaks, stone dry-lands, naked mountains, white roads and river poplars, twilights of Soria, warlike and mystical, today I feel, for you, in my hearts depths, sadness, sadness of love! Fields of Soria, where it seems the stones have dreams, you go with me! Hills of silver plate, grey heights, dark red rocks. |
Poem AnalysisThe narrator is feeling for the Fields of Soria. He's loving it. He explains its beauty as if it were alive. He's compassionate about the Fields of Soria.
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