Jorge Guillén and Pedro Salinas: Poems Analysis
Jorge Guillén – Beyond
Topic: The author, still half asleep, is surprised by the arrival of the morning, a sunny morning in which light is increasing. It is the desire to live and the rationale of its existence, the importance of being. The author expresses the importance of being discovered at dawn that day.
Questions
1. Summarize in 4 lines, the meaning of the text:
He wakes up from a dream and realizes. As he wakes up, he notices his amazement at everything he sees, but always with a sense of optimism. The poem expresses a sense of euphoria and happiness, fullness of being. Abundant use of adjectives and nouns, as they do not want to give importance to the verb.
2. Write an appropriate synonym for these words:
- Upright: Stabilize.
- It: Satisfaction.
- Brío: Firmness.
- Avidity: Anxiety.
3. Explain the meaning of the following statements:
- A) The soul returns to the body: It refers to the moment of awakening; the poet becomes aware of reality.
- B) Was there chaos?: Chaos is the dark of night and unconsciousness in which sleep leaves us.
- C) on edge Eternity: Eternity is not safe; it is hanging by a thread.
- D) The depth is the air: The air is most important. This is what you breathe, gives existence.
4. Find an antonym of the following words in the poem:
- Eternal: Ephemeral.
- Absoluta: Relative.
- Noise: Silence.
- Fact: Fiction.
5. Throughout the poem, the word “and” appears repeatedly. What do you call this literary device?
Polysyndeton.
6. Justifies the appropriateness of the title of this poem:
Beyond is a very appropriate title because the author reflects on these two words the meaning of the rhymes. He stresses the importance of not just being, but also of the whole that involves life, senses and intelligence, that is, what is beyond existence.
Pedro Salinas – The Soul Had
The author leads the soul of it, which is very wide, vast, so it can never reach her full knowledge. (Not crush).
Theme: The theme is clearly an unattainable love, the love a lover seeks his beloved, but this love is unrequited. There are even a number of very difficult obstacles to overcome. The author wants to show the difficulty of obtaining love; he adds the concept of love as search and search reflects this through “the way” (access), “border” (limits) and “gates” (access). The “I” engaged in a dialogue with the “you” next, that is, her soul.
Questions
1. Find a synonym for the following words:
- Narrow: Narrow or reduced.
- Franca: Sincere.
- It began: Home.
- Lindes: Limits.
2. What role does the “se” in: “Your soul was by wide roads”?
Indirect Complement.
3. What type of subordinate clause is: “The soul had such a clear and open, I could never in your soul may go in?
Adverbial subordinate clause consecutive.
4. Explain the meaning of the poem:
This poem is about unrequited love. How a man looks for the love of this woman and how hard he tries fails. At the end, he is left alone, sad and in love.
5. Say two stylistic resources you find in the poem and exemplify them:
- Rhetorical question: Where does it end?
- Contradiction: “so clear and open, I never could may go in your soul.”
6. What does the phrase, “Thy soul was by wide roads” mean?
This means that her soul is so vast that it cannot reach it.