Welcome to my study blog. I am a student in the second year of my PhD in Hispanic Literature at the University of British Columbia. This blog is a drawing board to spin ideas for my thesis by examining a series of works both from the Comprehensive list and in other places.
An interesting blog. I regret that I don’t read Spanish.
Pavel
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THE CONQUEROR
Darkness, do not flee, come stay awhile,
Sit with us dear shade, we have no quarrel,
Phantom of the night, sardonic smile,
The orbits of your eyes are dry and hollow
Darkness come and speak with us for once,
Spiritual wraith and speechless ghost,
Day has come, we have not seen you since,
Where have you been hiding, are you lost?
Darkness sighed and looked at us, he spoke,
(Voice of leaves that rattle as they blow):
You put on my shadows when you woke,
You are darkness now – where can I go?
Adam, you have taken up my trade,
Conquer now the kingdom I have made
Pavel
December 17, 2008
Fascinating blog (and thesis topic!). Currently I’m writing an honours dissertation on Huidobro and Neruda and feel even that can be a little overwhelming at times, but my mind boggles at the number of poets and thematic scope being contemplated here…
Especially interested in what you have to say about Neruda – he is as you say fundamentally a sentimental rather than ideological poet, although he did try to force himself into the latter box with poems España en el Corazón and Canto General (with decidedly mixed results, I feel). I guess this makes his poetry harder to assess in terms of the various “-isms” (vanguardism, surrealism, social realism etc) – certainly a lot harder than say Vallejo or Huidobro, both of whom had plenty to say about not only their own aesthetics but those of other poets as well…