unidad 3 vocab

el romanticismo

romanticism → nature, love, passion, individual/emotions

José María Heredia

politician and poet from Cuba

una tempestad

storm

el destierro

exiled

exiliarse

to be exiled

neoclasicismo

neoclassicism → simple, mythology, God figures

las fuerzas de naturaleza

forces of nature

la dignidad humana

human dignity

el soplo

wind blows

el ardor

burns

los torbellinos

little tornados

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

influential Spanish romantic poet

la voz poética

style/personality

posromántica

postromantic → rejecting romanticism

Rimas

book of poetry by Becquer

golondrinos

swallows (bird)

el paralelismo

two works that reflect each other

Emilia Pardo Bazán

Spanish poet → realism

la clave

key

La Biblioteca de Mujeres

serie por Pardo Bazán

la violencia doméstica

abuse → often seen in realism

las medias

stockings

realismo

the truth, everyday life, often showed the ugly parts of life

Horacio Quiroga

Uruguayan writer → romantic often compared to Poe

el sufrimiento

suffering → seen often in naturalism

modernismo

modernism → literary movement in 1900s that sought to break free from structure, focused on imagery

la fábula

fable

José Martí

Cuban writer and nationalist → helped Cuba gain independence from Spain

la traición

treason

la identidad nacional

national identity → Martí’s main goal

Nuestra América

essay by Martí

la raza

race

los peninsulares

Spain and Portugal

criollo

person with Spanish blood and born in Latin America

mestizo

half Spanish, half native American

indios

natives

el aldeano/el campesino

small town folk

Rubén Darío

Nicaraguan writer, known as father of modernism

rechazar las reglas de versificación

modernism breaks the rules

A Roosevelt

poem by Darío