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16 Cards in this Set
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Neruda
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• Won Premio Nobel de literatura
• Was part of the communista party (leftist political views) o Loyal to Salvador allende (socialista) o Doesn’t believe in God • Born in Chile • Wrote a lot of intelligent love poems • Isla Negra=Neruda’s house |
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• “y yo materialista que no cree en el celeste cielo prometido para ningún humano, para este perro o para todo perro creo en el cielo”
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o Materialista=comunista
o Communists don’t believe in God but Neruda does for the dog o He wants to stay connected to his perro so he believes his perro is in heaven |
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• Un perro ha muerto/mi perro ha muerto
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o “mi” is more personal and powerful
o its not just any perro..its HIS perro |
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• Change in poem’s tone throughout the poem
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o The beginning of the poem has a lot of interjeciónes (“Ay”)
o the tristeza is more evidente in the beginning of the poem o towards the end he says “y eso era todo” because he accepted his perro’s death- he’s writing a catarsis (he’s writing to relieve emotion) |
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• Strongest line in the poem
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o Con esos ojos, más puros que los míos
ojos are the ventanas to the alma |
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• Metaphors for the dog’s Independence
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o “Tuvo hacia mí la amistad de un erizo que conservaba su soberanía”
o the dog had the amistad of a porcupine- he didn’t like to be touched- he liked to be independent- he wasn’t mimado |
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• Phrases that explain Neruda’s tristeza
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o “ay no diré la tristeza en la tierra de no tenerlo más por compañero que para mí jamás fue un servidor”
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• Example of a happy memory
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o “arriba el aire traspasado de pájaros glaciales y mi perro brincando, hirsuto, lleno de voltaje marino en movimiento: mi perro vagabundo y olfatorio enarbolando su cola dorada frente a frente al océano y su espuma”
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• ideas about death in the poem
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o death is inevitable and its nothing to be afraid of
o people bury their dogs in the backyard next to maquinas oxidadas o “ya se fue y lo enterré y eso era todo” |
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Goya
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• Born in Aragón España (norte de España)
• Became sordo and went to live alone in La Quinta de Sordo • He went crazy and painted on the walls of the quinta de sordo • Padre de arte moderno because he was the first painter to show emotion in his paintings • He was a realist painter • Pintor realista • He painted royalty which is the best paying job as an artista |
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Saturno devorando a uno de sus hijos
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• Saturno= dios de tiempo
o Death is inevitable and malvado and you should fear it o You can’t escape the passage of time o Ate all his sons because he heard that they were going to kill him o His eyes are abiertos and scary o His hair is moving which shows that he’s violently eating his son • Colores oscuros • All of the light focuses on the body and on saturno’s eyes • The son looks like a girl which created a lot of contraversy • The painting also symbolizes the political situation in Spain during the inquisición→ spain is eating its own sons |
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Los fusilamientos
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• Takes place when the french (Napoleón) invaded Spain and killed the indígenas
• Takes place in Madrid • French soldiers are killing the indígenas • Goya is painting injustice • Doesn’t show the faces of the soldiers- anonymous killers • Victim is dressed in White and yellow (colores de Vaticano) • Victim’s hands are in the shape of Cristo on the cruz (he’s innocent) • Latern represents God’s light and the fact that the victim is innocent • The victim has emtion (padre de arte moderno) • Churches in the background |
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• El velorio
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o “pasar el noche en vela”
o everybody spends the night with the person’s family o spend the night awake |
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• Anuncios
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o Obituaries
o The longer and the more obituaries you have the more important and rich you are o Signifies that the spanish culture is hierarchial |
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• Funerarios
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o Funeral
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• Luto
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o Mourning clothes
o Its all black o You have to wear it for an entire year |