The Influence of Nature in Miguel Hernandez’s Poetry
7. Miguel Hernandez and nature
Miguel Hernandez was born in 1910 in Orihuela, a small village in the Spanish Levante, surrounded by the rich garden of the River Segura. His father had won, his childhood and adolescence were spent in the cool mountains and bright Orihuela caring for their herds of goats in the family.
Continued to spend so much time before nature, begins to contemplate carefully and since then was evident in his thinking and ideology, even many of its most beautiful elements appear throughout his compositions: the moon and stars, rain, properties of various herbs, rites of animal fertilization … This will be our tour center on the famous book of poetry by the author to reconcile the work is as common as milk the goats and distribute milk in the neighborhood with the creation poetry.
Miguel Hernandez did not always use the elements of nature with the same intention or theme, will depend on the personal period in which it is and what you want to convey with it.
Although we note that Miguel Hernandez refers to issues related to nature along almost all his work, in the stages where he focuses more on this subject are in their early (especially until you type “Perito en Lunas”) when he began to write poetry, because his status as a “keeper of goats” as very close to nature in general, and this made the author was inspired by nature to write.
In his work “Perito en Lunas” Miguel Hernandez adapted many literary elements to the landscape that surrounds him and the men of their environment. Elements appear in nature as the moon will have the symbol of circularity, also speaks of the bull, the palm, palmerero …. The moon is as present as it represents “the round”, ie, the idyllic, perfect … The author aims to escape from everyday reality to settle in the idealized world of poetry. A part of the moon one of the most used is the blue sky of the sky in Orihuela Mediterranean native, it curious perception of light when we look at the adjectives and such modernist synecdoches using “if transient, blue , Piraeus ‘(without the accent on the i), eighth VIII; “blue unscathed” in the eighth I; “blue in the isthmus’ eighth VII ‘blue sand’ eighth XI.
In his book “The lightning that never stops” you see the lightning as a symbol typically represents the masculine force, besides the bull which also represents the love that wants to be consummated but fails. In this work expresses all desire to consummate his love with his beloved through elements such as the above or related to nature. Thus appears the sentence, meaning “lightning”, which penetrates tirelessly in his heart.
In “Winds of the People” the poet is passed by the wind, its social tone poems relate to everything surrounding the atmosphere of their homeland, and full of optimism because of the principle of the Civil War, are the olive , farmers …
In addition to “The man lurking” appears pessimistic air but still dealing with the issue of his people during this period of war, and frames the stories of his poems in parts of the field, with players peasants …
In “The songs and the ballads of absences,” the poet is identified with a time of misfortune and from natural elements as expressed here are the mothers of the onion, writes that his only child living after losing one, and writes while in prison, where they appear natural elements such as onions, moon, wind, …
As with all natural elements, Miguel Hernandez expressed in all his plays and poems their feelings, set within its environment, in which he grew up. This was the environment that has appeared the first poems of Miguel Hernandez and dragged up in all this from the literary and the lexicon that has used related to the nature around him. He used nature as a source sensual and original verses. To Miguel Hernández nature has always been important because he grew close to her, and always knew very well the fields that correspond to them.