SPAN 373:
Dra. Alicia Rivero
Review Session 1:
December 2, 2009
Title of
Work
Author
Movement
Técnicas
Themes
Anything
Specific
Sonatina
(Poem)
p.245-6
Darío
(Nicaragua)
Modernismo
(End of 19
th
beginning of
20
th
)
-verso libre
-anafora
-emphasis on
extotics
-nature
-musicalidad
“el teclado de
su clave”
-Prosopopeya
-Metafora
-Sintoma
(triste y
palida)
-metales
preciosas
-Preguntas
retoricas
-Tristeza
-You can’t
buy happiness
-Love always
conquers
-Materialism
Imprisonment
-Juventud*
-One of the
first literary
movements
that’s de
America
-Fairy-tail
style
Notes:
There’s a princess and she has all these things but she’s not happy because she doesn’t have love
—you can’t buy happiness.
He’s observing her from the outside—he never gets into access into what she’s thinking so he
assuming everything (3
rd
Standza)
He esthetically comments about the whole materialism can’t please thing but he’s looking on it
from the outside.
The princess is trapped in all of the things that are beautiful and “worth” something.
El caballero es el antitesis de la princesa.
Subjuctive:
something countering fact (Stanza 7)
“I would...blah blah blah ...try line 40)
Title of
Work
Author
Movement
Técnicas
Themes
Anything
Specific
A
Roosevelt
p. 250-1
Dario
Mundonovismo
(defintion 619)
(mature phase of
modernism…American
-Alusiones
(for example:
Line 44—hija
del sol=incas;
Indep.
Positivismo
(p. 621)
“el casador”
has a double
meaning; he
was game
themes, greater
preoccupation of the
future of the continent)
-Americanismo
line 46—del
Leon espanol.
Spanish flag;
Line 28=Statue
of Liberty)
-Anafora
Line 3:
opposites of each
other (contraste)
-Simbolos:
Roosevelt is an
animal
deshumanizacion
Line 49).
-Metonomia
hunter—not
just of animals
but as of
countries.
-
Experimenting
with style of
poetry.
-Only God can
conquer
America
*Read all of
the footnotes.
Notes:
Criticism of the United States
Imperialism and Expansion.
They had just began their independence from Spain
All colonies at beginning of 19
th
century—at the end—they were all independent
states—they’re trying to establish their own identity aside from the
“common
culture” that had been developing over a long period of time.
Ironico, political tone.
Title of
Work
Author
Movement
Técnicas
Themes
Anything
Specific
Nuestra
America
p.216
Marti
(Cuba)
yBeginning
of Modernism
Thesis:
Line
23 “El
Gobierno…”
Contrast
between Latin
America and
the United
States (Line
130, 147 with
marriage)
Symbol:
Tiger:
Colonialism
Visual appeal
with images
-Line
91=Tigre
symbol.
-Allusion
Liberty,
Independence,
Equality,
Anti-Racism
Cuba and
Puerto Rico
are still not
out of the
control of the
United States
(emphasis on
culture)
(footnote 95;
ending)
Notes:
Minorias raciales y economicas, no solo los privilegiados (somewhere on page 219, try line 106
or even before that actually.)
Se opone al racismo
Reference of being like MLK (for liberty and equality)
Children are the future (Line 115-116)
Importance of Education (Line 59-63)
The US is a neighbor but not a good one.
