Life, Death, and Love in the Poetry of Miguel Hernández
Both elements make up the image. He is the poet of the world. In The Unending Lightning, the poet achieves intimate maturation, like love, the concept of the tragic destiny of man. Love is death. Not far from the target, blood reaches the topic to be one of the mainstays of his own biography. Life is the blood from the heart. In Miguel Hernández, pure blood is sacred. The poet takes up the idea of life as a sentence in the verse. He lurks in man; the poet offers the same freedom: his eyes, his hands, his feet, everything. This constant struggle is characteristic of the poet to get the fullness of what goes on living. He absorbs all the juices of nature, lives all the feelings, lives with passion, and finds love—love as absence. Life and death are part of a sensual and passionate network. Death will come when the poet’s love is denied. But his verses were filled with rage and pain. In the elegy dedicated to Ramón Sijé, terms appear which form a mosaic of pain and rage. The theme of the dead child will be a constant pain. He Lurks in Man, writes a few words by Pablo Neruda. When the war happens, poems darken with disappointment and sadness. Composed in jail, it might be described as a diary of desolation. A disease is medically whipped, badly treated, and lived in solitude. Now is the time of resignation; however, the last poems are perhaps the most tender and melancholy of the whole work. The cycle closes, back to love. His beloved son is constantly appearing. Many of the events defined the author as a being that almost always coexists with the idea of death.
Pictures and Symbols in the Poetry of Miguel Hernández
Miguel Hernández’s poems in his last years of learning have some images taken directly from their environment in Orihuela. “Lust” and “It Is Your Mouth…” are important topics. “Lust” speaks of erotic desire in the guise of bucolic poetry. “It Is Your Mouth…” presents part of a woman’s face through metaphors. Expert on Moons was released in Murcia, consisting of 42 octaves. Among the symbols is the bull, meaning sacrifice and death. Palm, Mediterranean landscape elements. In this first book, there are pictures and symbols of their time. The Lightning That Never Ends was out of print for the collection “Hero.” The fundamental issue is that the lightning represents desire. Blood is sexual desire, shirt, male gender, and lemon. The ambivalent character of the beloved in the sonnet is appreciated. Not all the poems of The Lightning That Never Ends are thus. Some speak of a full sexual relationship. There are critics who do not identify it with Josefina Manresa but a fleeting relationship that Miguel Hernández had. Village Wind exemplifies what the poetry of war is. In this book, there is a poet of displacement from self to others. The poet’s eye becomes solidarity towards those who suffer. Of poems like a child, there is Yuntero. The contrast between rich and poor is given in the Hands poem, in which hands are symbolized. For Miguel Hernández, they were the two Spains. Marriage is sung after motherhood. The symbol will be the belly. In Man Stalks, we will find the theme of man and beast. The book emphasizes the poems dealing with the disasters of war. Songs and Ballads of Absences opens with elegies on the death of the writer’s first child. The image is evoked through images. Hope is reborn with the coming of a new child. He goes for the extremely sad “Nanas de la Cebolla.” Miguel Hernández remains in jail, longing for his beloved. He symbolizes death here by the sea, which is becoming the only certainty for the poet.