Analysis of Catalan Poetry: From Romanticism to Modernism
La Pàtria (1833) by Bonaventura Carles Aribau
This romantic poem, composed in 1832 and published in 1833, reflects the longing for homeland. Aribau’s work showcases a deep connection to the Catalan landscape, language, and culture.
Verse 1
The poem opens with a geographical description of Catalonia, from the mountains to the sea. The poet bids farewell to his homeland with anaphora (bye, bye, bye…). This evokes popular farewell songs of the 18th and 19th centuries. The subjectivity of the territory transforms into the concept of homeland. References to “the tomb of the Jew” (Montjuïc), Barcelona, and Mallorca highlight the poet’s personal connection to these places.
Verse 2
This verse contrasts the familiar homeland and family with the poet’s current state of exile. The uprooting causes anxiety and concern, leading the poet’s imagination to fly back to the beloved homeland.
Following Stanzas
s’elogia language from its historical dimension and mother tongue (stanza IV) romantic praise. The last stanza is a apòstrofe language (ix) because this, dignified, it fills the pattern (original composition). Ix interpellation is used to install a person vehemently and strongly. Also biparteix stanza. The poem belongs to January of the ode. Six stanzas of 8 Alexandrians with ABBAACCA Rimes (three rhymes) and to link the two rhyming quatrains, separated from the original, reduced to one octave.
Blind Cow (1895) is not merely a description of an action in nature. It is a critique of man to alter the harmony of nature. The loneliness of the cow suffering unfairly, because of the man. There is also the exclusion of the cow in your community by default. Metrics: 23 decasyllabic verses (some with hemistiuis 4 +6) without regular rhythm art major. Three stanzas. (14-20). Rhetorical figures: encavallaments, polisíndeton, metaphor, antithesis, Alliteration (a). Published in The Advancement in 1893. Contained in Poetry (1895). Maragall became the poet and intellectual reference of Modernism. The poem begins with the direct contemplation of nature, following the romantic concept of Europe. Maragall exposes the sincerity of feeling and nature. “The Blind Cow” shows the contrast between light and harmony of nature sounds and the darkness of the animal. In the first 6 verses explains the cause of blindness; in 7 below, the solitude and the movement of the animal toward the source, lack of energy, of life. In the second part, the personification and transcendence begins with a “confrontation of snout, which provides syntactic parallelism with” Topant head “, the initial verse of the poem.Apart from the emphasis of the tragedy of the beast, there are two other central concepts: the resignation of the animal, the poet’s compassion.
Cançonetes uncertain (1925) Three stanzas of 8 verses (copag). Verses octosíl · tetrasíl · labs and labs (8, 4, 8, 4 …). Rima Asson (a, b, b, c, b, c, b). Part of the first edition of ‘The heart still (1925). The heart is still the first book published since Carner living outside Catalonia, Costa Rica. Currency issues and to respect their previous stage, fully Noucentiste. A “cançonetes uncertain” meat of the song uses popular roots. This composition contrasts with the slight issue addressed: the general question about the enigma of life and their risks. The sense of the word path is “life.” Elements of the landscape from a standpoint of citizens, from someone who Malfa nature. I The poetic meditation on the possibilities, positive and negative that holds the life in the future.
Mallorca during the Civil War (1937) poetic fallacy (and personified inner landscape, typical of the twentieth century). E xpressa all the young poet’s longing to be away from their homeland and separated from their parents not been seen since. The island was occupied as soon as he started the civil war and spent the entire period Roussillon war in Barcelona, it was Republican areas. Free verse with an irregular deliberate.