Poetic Symbolism and Literary Techniques in Early Works
Poetic Symbolism in Early Works
The beauty of the beloved is represented through a series of symbols. For example, the bull, which embodies the fullness of life, represents virility, strength, violence, and masculinity. Mud, a wet, plastic element, symbolizes a submissive lover even more than the dog, and can solidify the vaginal heat. Constant metamorphoses include lightning, forge, anvil, gardeners, hurricane, lava, bull, stalactite, hawk, and lilies. The blacksmith’s anvil or metal represents submission to the dictatorship of the fire symbol in his revolutionary poetry. Death is represented by a medieval warrior, carnations are transformed into fire, and bulls into iron foundries of bronze. The people are represented by peasants, workers, fighters, and symbolically by lions, bulls, and eagles. Man is depicted as stalking. Prisons are set up as symbols, and trains run filled with blood.
*Songbook and Ballads of Absence*
This first version, shaped like a notebook, is a diary of sorts, containing 79 poems composed in a way that reflects his life episodes. The sun becomes a symbol of peace and happiness. Light, the belly, is like a barren, desolate night, symbolizing the sorrow and resignation that has crushed her time.
Glossary of Early Poetic Language
The glossary of the initial stage as a writer is full of wild words, sometimes disingenuous, but always searching for beauty. It highlights regionalism, using words from colloquial speech, such as slang from Aragon. Another aspect is the emergence of voices created by his own invention and abuse, including neologisms, cultism, and ultimately, affectation of the lexicon. He uses many polysemic voices. In the genesis of his work, we encounter words inherited from authors such as San Juan de la Cruz.
Use of Metaphors and Imagery
The predominance of metaphors is significant. However, even more relevant is the use of images expressed through circumlocution. In its early stages, the use of Catholic imagery is noticeable. These images allow us to refer to virtual poetry. Metaphors have the peculiar quality of emphasizing situations and common objects of everyday life. One metaphor is the image of the sun, the engine of life, which is responsible for accounting for the event of reproduction. In *Winds of the People*, nature still has a voice. The spikes in the book are a vindication of the work of farmers.
Sensory Language and Synesthesia
Colors, smells, and flavors punctuate the verses of this poet. One could speak of a poetics based on the credo of sensuality, where synesthesia is the dominant note.
Formal Expertise and Metrics
In his first compositions, he lacks much formal expertise and is led by the imitation of other poets. This results in highly varied metrics. The types of lines used vary between disyllabic and Alexandrian.
Poetic Forms Used
- Trio: 3 hendecasyllables, ABA
- Quartet: 4 hendecasyllables
- Redondilla: ABBA rhyme, 4 octosyllabic consonants, abba
- Serventesio: 4 hendecasyllable consonants, ABAB
- Quartet: 4 octosyllabic consonants, abab
- Copla: 4 lines of minor art, assonance rhyme in even lines, odd lines loose
- Seguidilla: 4-line stanza, 2 heptasyllables and 2 five syllables, consonant or assonance rhyme in even lines
- Copla Broken Foot: 6 lines of minor art with rhyme, 8a-8b-4c-8A-8b-4c
- Octave Real: 8 hendecasyllables, alternating rhyme in the first 6, the last 2 form a couplet, ABABABCC
- Tenth: 10 octosyllabic consonants, abbaaccddc