Lika Tuntia, Juana Coronel, Ling Du
CMP 2850
March, 11, 2016
Ruben Dario: The Father of Modernism in Latin America Literatures
Ruben Dario was the most influential Nicaraguan poet, known as the father of “Modernism.” Modernism is a late 19th century Spanish-language literary movement that rose from a reaction against the literary naturalism and against the wider bourgeois conformity and materialism of the Western Society. He was born in Metapa, Nicaragua (now Ciudad Dario) on 18 January 1867. His parents named him Felix Ruben Garcia Sarmiento. He renamed himself as Ruben Dario since his paternal family used the surname Dario for a long time and become a patronymic. His parents name were Ruben Garcia known as Manuel Dario, and Rosa Sarmiento;
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they were second cousins. The marriage of his parents was a fixed marriage; a marriage of convenience made by the family which resulted into a separation a month before Ruben Dario was born. Manuel was engaged in excessive alcohol consumption which forced Rosa to abandon her conjugal home; she went to live in her aunt house in Metapa where Dario was born. Afterward, the couple made up and even had a second child, who died a few days after being born. However the marriage deteriorated again and Rosa moved with a member of her family, and soon after, she established a relationship with another man and moved to Honduras. Consequently, Dario was adopted by his maternal aunt Bernarda Sarmiento, and her husband Felix Ramirez who was his godfather. He grew up in Leon. In his early life, Dario attended public and private school. He began reading by the age of three and by twelve was already publishing poems.” From 1878 to 1880 he attended a Jesuit school and began to read Latin and Greek. A member of the stuff, a Colombian known as Padre Valenzuela, was a poet. He encouraged Dario who at this time who was already known as “the boy poet,” writing epitaphs and songs for festive occasions. His first published poem “Una Lagrima,” an elegy, appeared on 16 June, 1880 in the Nicaraguan newspaper El Termometro; and he continued to publish from then on with some frequency in the Nicaraguan periodical El Ensayo.He was greatly influenced by Victor Hugo and Paul Verlaine in the beginning, and later he veered more towards Parnassians writers. He was also influenced by other Spanish poets and writings. “In 1882, in an attempt to secure a scholarship to study in Europe, Dario read his poetry to conservative Nicaraguan authorities. He was refused the scholarship; his poems were considered too liberal and officials feared a European education would farther encourage his antireligious sentiments. Although, Dario found a way to travel extensively throughout Latin and Central America and later to Europe, working as a journalist, and a diplomat. The three books that define Dario’s production are “Azul” in 1888, Prosas Profanas y otros Poemas (1896), and Cantos de Vida y Esperanza (1905).
Azul is considered the first book of modernism in the Spanish language. It’s composed of both prose and poems with a big metric variety, and it shows Dario’s recurrent worried. Darío's "blue verse" quickly spread through the Americas and even to Europe. His poetry marked the beginning of an artistic revolution that turned him into a leader of Modernism, Latin America's first home-grown literary movement. A reaction to Romanticism, Modernism breathed new life into language and sought to produce artistic written expression that was free of European cultural dominance. He was aware of the social and economic changes moving Latin America towards modernity; he recognized the advances of science and technology; he hailed progress and democracy; and he knew how to integrate European and American cultures. Darío also built bridges between nations and supported the ideal of Central American unity. "The fatherland is small, but one dreams it big," he …show more content…
wrote. On 21 June 1889 he and Rafaela Contreras contracted civil marriage in El Salvador; and the religious wedding took place on 11 February 1891 in Guatemala. In august they left to Costa Rica where, on 11 November, his son Ruben Dario Contreras was born. Rafaela died in El Salvador on 26 January 1893 and on 8 March Dario married Rosario Emelina Murillo who was his first love during his adolescence. A son was born to Rosario some six weeks after their marriage. He reached Barcelona on January 1899 to report the Spanish-American War for the Argentine newspaper La Nacion. In Madrid, he met Francisca Sanchez his third spouse with whom he remained the rest of his life. A daughter, Carmen was born to him with Francisca in 1900. In the following year his daughter died. In 1903 Dario was named Consul of Nicaragua in Paris. His first son with Francisca, Ruben Dario Sanchez, nicknamed ‘Phocas,’ was born, only to die two years later in 1905. On 2 October the second Ruben Dario Sanchez nicknamed ‘Guicho’ by his father, was born and survived to adulthood.Dario died in Leon, Nicaragua at the age of 49, on February 6, 1916 from atrophic cirrhosis of the liver. Meanwhile, Theodore Roosevelt who was the president of United States appear as a good neighbor and send troops to Central America. He called this Big Stick Policy, “Speak softly and carry big stick; you will go far” were honoring Monroe doctoring for protecting Western hemisphere from European troops and establishing peace in new nations. Roosevelt started this propaganda to ensure his citizens were supporting him. “He believed that the Caribbean interests of the United States and its neighbors to the South were much same: both sought peace, democracy, economic development, security against the incursions of European powers.” It seemed quite noble of him using his resources and people to help his neighbors, showing how he was “good guy” compared to European countries. “He envisioned an American-controlled canal at Panama in a stable Caribbean and a peaceful world that would permit the development of Latin America as a prosperous region independent of both Europe and the United States”. Little did people in United States know, this was not how American nations viewed U.S. military on their land. Roosevelt greatly masked his true intentions for his citizens but Latin American people were not backing down so easily. They knew that behind his so called noble actions were great thirst for power and economical control over Americas. By taking over Panama Canal, United States would have been in charge of any international trade between Latin America and the world. Roosevelt’s actions from non-American perspectives, especially clear in Ruben Dario’s works critiquing of the American claims to be “spreading democracy”. Even though Ruben Dario always tried to not get involved in politics, U.S. intervention in Central America pushed him to voice Latin American view on his imperialism and show to everyone that Theodore is everything but a good neighbor. “To Roosevelt” is one of Dario’s poems which clearly states his rage about Theodore’s actions and warns him. He starts the poem by stating how strong and skillful Roosevelt is, “you’re strong and splendid specimen of your kind”. He admits that he is a lot more powerful that Latin America and has invaded them but even though his “crying out, it’s heard like the roaring of a lion”, he should be afraid of American nations because if they unite together they will defeat him. “There are a thousand cubs set loose from the Spanish Lion.” He calls new Latin nations cubs that broke away from mother Spain and they will defend themselves against the “Hunter”. Imperialism always has been part of American foreign policy and it has become American culture.
First it started with the phrase of “from sea to shining sea” when young nation started to spread their control claiming killing Native Americans and destroying everything that they created were divine destiny. Even today, United States’ military is spread out across the Middle East still using same old tricks of spreading democracy and peace, while gaining political and economic advantages of the region. Lots of citizens of United States see American intrusion in Iraq and Afghanistan as helping innocent citizens and protecting their freedom but others think it’s all about Oil and natural resources of the
region. Ruben Dario was also considered a pioneer of Modernism. It is a term coined in the late 19th century which was a movement that stemmed from the western world. Modernist whom are mostly poets, artists started to embraces their individuality and uniqueness in their crafts. Instead of following traditional methods and creating variations of the old, artist were now embracing new and individualistic styles. Ruben Dario was a big fan of the Modernist movement and was influenced greatly by their views of modernization. Coincidentally, a poet called Walt Whitman was a huge player in the modernist movements in which Dario wrote a poem about. Perhaps one of the main things connecting these two poets (Besides Poetry) was this ongoing concept of modernization. After the death of Whitman, Dario writes a poem titled with him name. In the poem he praises Walt and even calls him an emperor with a divine sigh. After reading the poem there is no doubt that Dario adored Whitman, and was there was a deep respect for the late poet. In the most romantic of words Dario summed Whitman as a hero. As a poet Dario is also very romantic, in that he writes poems about romantic relationships in a very artsy yet unique style. A perfect example of this is in his Poem First a look… upon reading the text for the first time, we can definitely conclude that it is a romantic text which involves the depiction of intimacy and possibly adultery. At a first glance the poem is short, containing only ten lines. The title it and the first line is the same sentence, “First a look”, because it is a romantic passage we can interpret that his first look symbolizes attraction. Unlike many traditional relationships, Dario does not discuss the intellectual part of a relationship, and goes immediately into “the fiery touch” and “the overwhelming kiss”. This can also define the key significance of this relationship which is the lack of significance and romance. In the core of the poem he sums up the whole night in one sentence, “Later, night and pleasure. Later the flight.” Night, pleasure and flight all contain the commonality of inevitableness. So with a further analysis, this is a passage written romantically but portrays a rather bitter and short lived relationship between two parties. In conclusion, Ruben Dario made his mark on the world through poetry. Although not extremely known in the United States, for obvious reasons, he was a hero in the eyes of Latin America. His dedication to speaking his mind, while using clever and poetic language is truly amazing. In some ways, Darío was a literary liberator. He was the creator of a new aesthetic, full of musicality, metaphors, and philosophy, with new vocabulary and versification. He wrote about love, nature, religion, and history.
From western expansion to foreign imperialism the United States has always been an expansionist country. Early America’s focus was to conquer the natives and obtain western land within North America, but in the latter of America’s history, specifically in the nineteenth and twentieth century, foreign imperialism became the new focus. America’s activity in foreign imperialism was a continuation and departure of the United States’ early expansionism. It was a continuation in terms of manifest destiny, the spread of Christianity, and by the concept of “the city on a hill” and a departure in terms of foreign involvement.
In this period, there are the bases for the creation of a new movement that will culminate during the 14th century. This particular view is enclosed in a sub-movement called humanism: humanists encouraged to put in the centre of the universe the man. The man is the main centre of the universe and of the thoughts. In this period intellectuals obtained answers in the works of the ancient classics, they embraced the classic culture, especially the ancient Greek culture, leading to the birth of a new science: The Philology, whose main learner was Lorenzo Valla. Classic themes are the inspiration for the artists: from poets to painters, they are all under this influence.
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Nacio el 6 de marzo de 1928 en Aracataca, Columbia , en el hogar de Gabriel Eligio Garcia, telegrafista y de Luisa Santiaga Marquez Iguaran. Siendo muy niño fue dejado al cuidado de sus abuelos maternos, el Coronel Nicolas Marquez Iguaran -su idolo de toda la vida- y Tranquilina Iguaran Cortes. El reconoce que su madre es quien descubre los personajes de sus novelas a traves de sus recuerdos. Por haber vivido retirado al comienzo de su padre, le fue difícil tratarlo con confianza en la adolescencia; "nunca me sentia seguro frente a el, no sabia como complacerlo. El era de una seriedad que yo confundia con la incomprension", dice Garcia Marquez. En 1936, cuando murio su abuelo, fue enviado a estudiar a Barranquilla. En 1940, viajo a Zipaquira, donde fue becado para estudiar bachillerato. "Alli, como no tenía suficiente dinero para perder ni suficiente billar para ganar, preferia quedarme en el cuarto encerrado, leyendo", comenta el Nobel. En 1946 termino bachillerato. Al año siguiente se matriculo en la Facultad de Ciencias Politicas de la Universidad Nacional y edito en diario "El Espectador" su cuento, "La primera designacion". En 1950, escribio una columna en el periodico "El Heraldo" de Barranquilla, bajo el seudónimo de Septimus y en 1952, publico el capítulo inicial de "La Hojarasca", su primera novela en ese diario, en el que colaboro desde 1956. En 1958, se caso con Mercedes Barcha. Tienen dos hijos, Rodrigo y Gonzalo. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, quien esta radicado en Ciudad de Mexico desde 1975, en una vieja casona restaurada por el mismo, es amigo cercano de inportantes personalidades mundiales, lo fue de Omar Torrijos y conserva fuertes lazos con Fidel Castro, Carlos Andres Perez, Francois Miterrand, los presidentes de Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia y otros muchos. El 11 de diciembre de 1982, despues de que por votacion unanime de los 18 miembros de la Academia Sueca, fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura por su obra. La vida y obra del Nobel Garcia Marquez ha sido reconocida publicamente: en 1961 recibio el Premio Esso, en 1977, fue homenajeado en el XIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana; en 1971, declarado "Doctor Honoris Causa" por la Universidad de Columbia, en Nueva York; en 1972, obtuvo el Premio Romulo Gallegos por su obra "La Candida Erendira y su abuela desalmada". En 1981, el gobierno frances le concedio la condecoracion "Legion de Honor" en el grado de Gran Comendador.
...s own, and with a total committment to his spiritual vision, he gave expression to the new movement -- the rinascimento -- of his time." (11)
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