Legends and Tales of Spanish Romanticism: A Literary Analysis
THE KISS
1. Summary:
French troops come in Toledo in the early nineteenth century. One of the captains is housed in a church with some of his soldiers. The next day, officers gather at the Zocodover and ask the captain to that he spent the night, this says a noise woke him up at night and before bed in the dark could see a beautiful woman but this was marble , at his side stood another statue, but this time from a soldier who the captain assumed was her husband. Upon hearing this, his comrades decide to go see her that night while providing them with wine. Officers investigate and discover that the statues belong to a famous warrior and his wife Dona Elvira Castañeda. When all come to the church are fascinated and start drinking. A soldier throws a glass of wine in the face of the statue of the warrior, moments later the captain tries to kiss his lips, the statue of Donna Elvira, but her husband, marble, raises his arm and giving the officer in the face, this just bleeding from mouth, nose and eyes.
2. Characteristics of the female character (statue of Dona Elvira Castañeda)
Beautiful. Marble (stone). Night. Motionless.
3. Characteristics of the male character (Captain):
Young. Hero. Outrageous.
4. Identify the feelings with the landscape:
War environment, attentive and mysterious
“Labyrinth of dark streets, tangled and turns.”
“Moorish tower with its bell tower, arched and domed roofs and dark uneven.”
Doubtful and strange environment:
“… Dubious clarity was lost in the heavy shadows ….”
“… Stood out dimly in the darkness, white and motionless like ghosts ….”
Audio description:
“… The soldiers who complained out loud ….”
“… The air, buzzing jailed narrow ….”
5. Presence of religion:
Real environment:
The story is set in a totally destroyed chapel where the statue is “protagonist” of marble
The moonlight
1. Summary:
Manrique, a very self-enclosed, noble adamant he appreciated the solitude in a high degree. His greatest weakness was the poetry and therefore its solitary nature allowed to think and exercise your mind. A warm summer night in the woods of Soria Manrique saw a woman dressed in white who appeared to him to be the perfect woman, the fast start it to continue but she disappears. For two months, their efforts are in vain.
However, on returning one night to the same place, the scene is repeated, just as fleeting, he realizes that he is pursuing a moonbeam that could be seen among the foliage of the forest where he was.
This leads him to think that love and glory hidden in a moonbeam
The gold bracelet
1. Summary:
Pedro Alfonso de Orellana loved Maria Antunez unlimited. One day he surprised her crying, he manages, after much insistence, the fact that women take up the obsessive desire of gold jewelry has one arm in the image of the Virgen del Sagrario, patron saint of the city of Toledo.
Beating its previous strength, the love that night started quietly in the Cathedral, the coveted bracelet of the Virgin, but can not take it, because in the temple has seen supernatural beings and hideous vermin resurrected corpses. In those visions, freaks out and falls vanished. The next morning, it is found delirious in the church, while holding the bracelet in her hands.
The mountain of souls
1. Summary:
Relationship between two young nobles, one of them and a foreign soriano (Beatriz). Returning from the mount of the souls to the city on All Saints’ and she asked for the mount of the souls, as the legend said that night rang the bells of the monastery and got up the souls of the dead. They go to the castle and after dinner will be a cozy room where some old told stories about demons. They did not speak, only stared into her eyes. When they spoke they decided to get gifts and that she should depart to his country soon, they agreed that he would give a jewel and she would give a blue stripe that was lost on the mountain that morning. The young man went to look and did not return. Beatriz went to bed but I could not sleep, he suddenly saw the band, who had sent for her beloved to the mountain, all covered with blood and torn. She screamed and the servants found her dead with fear.
Maese Perez, the organist
1. Summary:
Maese Perez is an old organist of the Cathedral of Seville, it is loved by all the people all admire his playing, which reaches its maximum brightness in the midnight mass.
It was precisely at this time when the old man died suddenly due to illness he had. The year after his death from the cathedral came a melody angelic but yet no one was sitting playing the organ. No doubt it was the spirit of old which to the delight of his parishioners.
The white deer
1. Summary:
A notable named Don Dionis Aragon, had fought in the Holy War, this had a daughter, Constance, which in turn had a personal servant called Garcés. One day after finishing the game they all gathered under some trees and told Don Dinis a frightened lad deer and none approached them and when a group of white Corzas appeared headed for a white deer also fled in panic to see . Garcés not stop thinking about the story of the white deer, he loved Constance, lily of the Moncayo and thought that if he caught the white doe for it, this fall surrendered their arms. Castle left the armed thinking that that would trap deer, after battling all the elements he spied her and thank fate the white deer was caught in a thicket trying to catch the doe speak and Garces was so surprised that the release, this tried to escape but he shot an arrow and hit the target, but what he found when approaching the deer was that she was in fact his beloved Constanza which turned in his own blood after being hit by the arrow of your beloved.
The Christ of Calvary
1. Summary:
The king of Castile sends his knights to Toledo. All were welcome parties, but the big party was the day before the start of the knights to the war. In this event, the protagonist was Doña Inés de Tordesillas, a beautiful woman with love to all men, but only two were on track to get his heart. These two are called Alonso’s cheek and Lope de Sandoval, who stood out for his performance. The day of the ceremony, Doña Inés. They realized they would have to fight to get the heart of this lady, searched overnight for a place to carry out the duel. Finally found a shed lit by a light, where he was a Christ and under a skull. The men prayed a prayer and prepared to fight, but drew their swords when the light went out. The re-turn, returned to take out and … The light went out again. This happened several times until finally a voice rang Knights wrapped in deepest fears. After that, they realized that the man did not want that duel will take place.
Decided that Agnes had to choose and went to balcony ready to seduce. But what was his surprise to discover Doña Inés farewell to his beloved. His first reaction was to dip into its steel and kill the man, but then thought about it and let out a laugh that echoed precipitating the departure of Dona Ines.
The next day, on the stage of farewell, was among the bridesmaids Dona Ines, who was uneasy lest the laughter had been caused by the death of one of the knights, but was relieved to discover that the ranks marching the two men were unharmed.
The Miserere
1. Summary:
A man finds a book in an abbey. The man, reading the book, discovered at the edge of a page a word that did not know the meaning, so I asked an old man the meaning of this. The old man recognizes the word and tells the “researcher” an old legend.
It said that some time ago a man walked into the abbey seeking shelter and a piece of bread. Those who then lived in the abbey did not give any problem, since virtually it was her job. At dinner, the monks began to ask questions of the newcomer. He was answering almost every question until they reached one of which did not come out, “that you do?”. Replenished man who was a musician and that at that time was the end of the Miserere for the Lord will forgive all their sins. Upon hearing this, one of the monks gathered there told him that his job was done because at that monastery in the mountains who had heard the monks chant every night dead Miserere. The musician decided to climb to the monastery and take notes in order to complete the score. He was already inside when they saw the monastery was rebuilt only the skeletons of the monks climbed up the mountainside to be placed in a line to sing the song. The stunned man try to stay alert to the response of so many years of work, but when the monks were on verse 10, he left a big flash frozen and left him unconscious. When he awoke the next day, went down the mountain to reach the abbey and sought refuge there to write the Miserere. Wrote down everything I hear, but when I try to write the end it was impossible. He wrote many drafts but did not, such was his frustration that he died mad.
O jos green
1. R esu me n:
In a hunt Fernando de Argensola shoots a wounded deer and it goes into a forest area where neither the hunters nor dogs accessed since it was the source area of the Los Alamos and said there who dared to enter pay his daring to face an evil spirit that lived in the area. Fernando went anyway and got to take your piece, but since then his behavior changed. She looked pale, had become introverted q going to hunt alone, but never brought any part. His hounds Iñigo was worried about his friend and they told him that day in the source had been a young girl with beautiful green eyes and bewitching, although I knew that it was the spirit needed to see her again. Back to the source and there trying to find out who is the girl talking to her, he confesses his love, and then the lady speaks and tells him she loves him, embraces him and leads her into the lake.
T he voice of silence
1. Summary:
Becquer, walking down the street, heard the voice of a woman but did not know where he came from and who was alone in that place. Came to an inn, and once there he began to draw and paint the outline of a woman. Two dais later it happened again on the same street and hearing the same thing again, this time decided to follow the voice, and this led him toward a window in an old house. The next day I asked a Jewish friend who had happened in that house, the friend told him that many years ago there lived a woman but was uninhabited at the time, no one lived there. He went on to tell what he knew, the woman suffered the indifference of her husband and since then the white woman’s ghost roams the house by her sweet voice ringing.
T he C reation
1. Summary:
Indian poem
Part I: Talk about the nature that surrounds them, the peaks of the Himalayas, the lotus flower, the giant trees … Give your opinion on love, men, women and life.
Part II: We want to present history as a major Indian
Part III: It says that creation had no beginning or end
Part IV: We note that Brahma made a wish and the sky full of bright spots. He says the first smile of Brahma sprang Eden.
Part V: Brahma withdrew to his sanctuary
Part VI: We realize that the scholars could convert the carbon diamonds
Part VII: Talk about the four elements and their guardians (Agni, Vayu, Varuna and Prithiun) were created by one stroke.
Part VIII: No one knew that Brahma was locked in his lab
Party IX: Some curious children went to the laboratory
Part X: In that place there were pots, scrolls ..
Part XI: Brahma created new planets taking liquor
Part XII: The young man looked at his work with admiration while others did not like as much as him
Party XIII: The operator got tired so I decided to leave the lab, but inadvertently left the door not closed and some kids went in there to snoop.
Part XIV: These, in the laboratory, destroyed all the inventions that Brahma had created and decided to make the world as they had seen.
Part XV: They started mixing some liquid, but that smoke and more smoke came out
Part XVI: Brahma returned to the laboratory to observe the world he created was a world deformed, dark, ugly, fragile … Between this the cause of this destruction could not stop laughing.
Part XVII: The angry young man, but seeing one of the children begging their world, Brahma had created, softened
Part XVIII: The boys went with their “world” that is where we live today. The last thing you said oh Brahma was not anything more delicate or more fearsome than the hand of a little boy.
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