| Modernist Literature |
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| The XX century is distinguished by a great ideological and artistic diversity about groups and people. It is hard to find in this era those tendencies found in centuries before that made connection with the time, due to in this period of time everything comes working together. So, that's why it is better get to know this literary era going through generations and preferences. |
| The poetic movement called Modernism is one of the exceptions, for being a phenomenon with which many poets are identified. introduced in Spain by a nicaraguan writer Ruben Dario, the modernism changes totally the view of the Spain poetry of the time. In this Short period of time that the Modernism lasted, it influenced also the prose, the theater, being still an important and fundamental pilar in the post evolution of the poetry. The Modernism is in its origen, a mixture of the spirit and the realistic style of the second half of the XIX century. As the Realism is a reaction to the Romanticism, the Modernistic poetry has certain aspects in common to the Romanticism: the spirit of Rebelliousness, the search of originality, the evocation of the legendary past, and the fine and degradant environments. Also, the modernism recuperated the exaltation of the aesthetic values and began a project of renovation and experimentation. The modernist poetry explores the sugestive value of the images, the color, the rhythm of the sounds, and intoduces the free verse and other used. The beauty, tthe art for sake, are the rules. The Cuban poet Jose Marti could be considered a member of the first modernist generation in America, but the most known is Ruben Dario. |
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| Ineditos de Ruben Dario |
| This era was basically based upon a new way of thinking, the author wanted to show different perspective of what had been showed before by other writers such as Garcia Lorca, who tried to show a perfect relationship between his personal ideas and the different elements, forgetting a bit the human nature. Along this time of renovation many writers were drawn by their thoughts and feelings and though Ruben Dario was that sort of father of the Modernism, there were other writers that followed his path made by this nicaraguan man. Antonio Machado was one of those followers, and though he was critized because of his way of thinking due to he was more with the topics he wrote about, he is considered as Modernist. Also, there were some others like for example Miguel Unamuno, Jose Marti, Pablo Neruda, Nicolas Guillen, Sergio Vodanovic, Isabel Allende, Sabine Ulibarri among others. |
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