Love and Death: Themes in Miguel Hernández’s Poetry
Love in the Poetry of Miguel Hernández
Hernandian poetry, we would have to call it love poetry; not a single poem falls outside the meaning of love: love for a woman, a son, people, friendship, and life. M.H.’s loving injury manifests itself in his poetry. At an early stage, echoes are romantic and post-romantic. In the cycle of Expert on Moon, the theme of love is an intention of a sexual nature. In most of the poems, love acquires lightning accent; passion afflicts the poet, tormented by the absence or non-correspondence of the beloved. Along the entire sentence, a poemario is present. Another element present in the book is the bull as a symbol of tragedy and blood. We say that in his first major book, there are reminiscences of the painful feeling of Garcilaso and tears; on your mood and pessimistic Quevedo, existentialism, because love is experienced as a fatal threat and torture.
Within the theme of love, find love-pain, where the beloved is represented by three muses (Maria Josefina, Cegarra Manresa, and Maruja Mallo) and a love-hope. This is why you can see in the love savita Manresa as wife and mother. The “Ramón Sijé Elegy” signifies the expression of love for his friend. “Wind People” extols the virtue of love and solidarity with the people. “Man Lurking” has a more mature love, crucible in the struggle and despair. Love is synonymous with death. In his latest book, Songs and Ballads of Absences, we see the theme of love in the vision of Michael’s deceased son: a triple heritage of the absence of his wife, his son, and freedom. We could conclude by saying that in the play of M.H., love is a central thematic focus.
Life and Death in the Poetry of Miguel Hernández
In all the biographies of some of the best M.H. passions is jail and the death of a poet. Styles, regardless of literary trends, early poems contain a base of some conscious disregard of vitalism, carefree and optimistic naturalism. Many poems in which he pays homage to nature, all life is beautiful. M.H. in these poems gives us joy and life. M.H. sees things as if they were alive; the moonstone threat fades into the veins. Here, there is no death. The ray that does not stop, even on moons expert, is a more literary, vivid penalty.
After the exaltation of nature comes a melancholy that is only the interiorization of surrounding life, the incorporation of the melancholy that is dictated by the sheer personality of the poet. M.H. is united in life and death. M.H. is full of life, and death is its production. Finally, everything is life and death in the poetry of M.H. Two elements make up the image that is the poet of the world. In The Beam That Does Not Stop, the poet achieves intimate maturation; as love, the concept of the tragic destiny of man. Love is death. Not far from the target, blood reaches a topic that will be one of the mainstays of his own biography because life is blood from the heart. In M.H., pure blood is sacred matters. The poet takes up the idea of life as a sentence in the verse. Lurks in man, the poet offers the same freedom: his eyes, his hands, his feet, everything. This constant struggle is characteristic of the poet; 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 network, sensual and passionate. Death will come when the poet’s love is denied.
However, Ramón Sijé, his verses are filled with rage and pain. In the elegy dedicated to Ramón Sijé appear terms that form a mosaic of pain and rage. The theme of the dead child will be a constant pain. 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 he lives in solitude. Now is the time of resignation; however, the last poems are perhaps the most tender and melancholy of the whole work. It closes the cycle 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.