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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
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