Miguel Hernández: Social and Political Engagement in Poetry
Social and Political Engagement in the Poetry of Miguel Hernández
Miguel Hernández made several trips to Madrid. His first, in 1935, was unsuccessful. He writes that the river stops Ray, meet Vicente Aleixandre (whom he admired), worked with Pablo Neruda, and joined the Educational Missions, among many other things. These Missions were an educational project, and it was here that Miguel Hernández’s social commitment began.
The outbreak of the Civil War required Miguel Hernández to move into politics. His response to the war was to defend the Republic. He held several important positions and published significant poems from this period in the weekly “Attack.” The poet moved to the Speaker of the Southern Front in Andalusia, whose goals included using poetry as a weapon. In 1937, taking a short break, he went to Orihuela for his civil marriage to Josefina Manresa. Back in Andalusia, he directed the newspaper “Southern Front.” Miguel Hernández understood the transformative power of the word and its possible social and political role. Solidarity became his poetic theme.
The result of this commitment will need to wind the town, where the conception of poetry as a ‘weapon’ means that the lyric gives way to the epic, the poet assumes a prophetic role. This function is divided into three different shades: the exaltation p lamentation or the victims of the oppressors and curse their enemies, the oppressors and the exaltation explotadores.El tone is dominant wind eri Village Voice as “hymn-” dominates much of his poems, becomes ‘shell’ of the miseries of the people with whom you feel identified and committed. The tone can also exaltation vehicle in the merger between love and heroism in the poems .. dominated by the tone of lamentation also mythologizes lyrical subjects. In the social poems (“Child Yuntero”, “harvesters”) the tone of lament serves to express the intimate identification, the poet travels to the USSR to participate in the V Soviet Theatre Festival. Upon his return, the poet suffers from depression to watch the spectacle of a Europe and insensitive to the plight of others who live in Spain, the man lurking in writing when he dies his first child. Man is a collection of poems lurking organic, reason careful composition, in which the poet retracts into the titles of both poems introspección.Los give us the key: ‘delpueblo’, who breathed a life-giving force, ‘the wind’, it now goes to the ‘man’, governing a threatening force, ‘stalking’. Miguel Hernandez gave his wife a book manuscript poems he had called Song and Ballads of absences. With this latest collection of poems, the poet oriolano reached poetic maturity. The poet is now a victim, a loser again, and his songs are and wounded a man who expresses no song dolor.Ya combative, or exaltation of heroes or people, there’s only regret about the fate of imprisonment and the death he wanted to leave Hernández aguarda.Miguel verses of pacifism in “Tristes wars” are the words of a man whose company was the love and whose weapons were the words.