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THE SONNETS OF DEATH
Gabriela Mistral
From the frozen niche in which the men placed themselves,
I will take you down to the humble and sunny land.
What I have to do is fall asleep in it, the men did not know,
and that we have to dream on the same pillow.
I will lay you down in the sunny ground with a
sweetness of mother for the sleeping son,
and the earth must be made soft like a cradle
when receiving your injured child's body.
Then I will sprinkle earth and rose dust.
and in the bluish and light lunar dust,
the lightweight belongings will be left trapped.
I will walk away singing my beautiful revenge,
because to that deep down place, no hand
he will come down to compete for my handful of bones!
II
This long weariness will grow greater one day,
and the soul will tell the body that it doesn't want to continue
dragging its mass along the pink path,
Wherever the men go, happy to live...
You will feel that your side bravely cavan,
What other sleep arrives in the quiet city.
I will wait until I have been completely covered...
And then we will talk for an eternity!
Only then will you know why it does not mature.
for the deep wounds still on your heart,
you had to go down, without fatigue, to sleep.
Light will be made in the area of the bellies, dark;
you will know that in our alliance sign of stars there was
yes, broken the huge pact, you had to die...
III
Bad hand will take over life from the day
in which, at a signal from the stars, he will leave his staff
snowy azucenas. It flourished in joy.
Bad hands tragically entered it...
And I said to the Lord: -"Through the mortal paths
they take them. Beloved shadow that they do not know how to guide!
Tear it away, Lord, from those fatal hands
Oh, you plunge into the long sleep that you know how to give!
I can't shout at him, I can't follow him!
His boat pushes a black wind of storm.
Return it to my arms or you cut it down in bloom
The pink boat of her living stopped...
What do I not know about love, that I had no mercy?
You, who are going to judge me, understand it, Lord!
Gabriela Mistral
The sonnets of death
Characters
Summary
In the work 'The Sonnets of Death', there are only two characters.
Gabriela and her lost son. Gabriela is important in this poem because she is a
a woman who has fallen very low for not having her son. Mistral only used
example to her child so that she can share her pain with other parents.
Literary Genre
The person who is dead in this poem, we can conclude that it is about a
Child. Mistral wants the child to be resting in peace. During the poem,
Mistral suffered and continued to suffer for the deceased person in this poem. Mistral
he wrote about these types of poetry because he never had the chance to be
mother again.
Themes
Love and despair are the most addressed themes in this poem. Everything was
cause by the need for happiness that Mistral could never have due to the
loss of her child.
Questions
1. What is the conflict of this poem?
2. What themes does the poem address the most?
3. What caused the author's death?
Problem
"The sonnets of death" is a work that belongs to the genre of poetry.
This verse's poem is about how to value what you have and how to move forward.
Losing someone is not easy, but one must understand that no matter what happens, already
you cannot turn back time. In Mistral's case, she did not know how to move forward, and
All his life he wrote more poems about the death of his son.
The dilemma in this poem is based on the death of a child. Everything was finished with
the misfortune of Mistral. Mistral was never able to have love, neither from a daughter nor a partner. Her
father abandoned the family when she was a child, and his two partners went through
many misfortunes. Her first boyfriend committed suicide, and the second ended up marrying
another woman. Mistral gave up and most of her poems were based
of pain.
Poem
"The sonnets of death" is a lyrical poem that contains fourteen verses of 12
syllables, with consonant rhyme, and a major art verse with rhyme of ABBA, CDCD,
ECF, ECG. This verse also contains sinalefa, 'From the icy niche in which the
men put you,...". The poem is divided into two quatrains and two tercets.
Opinion
Atmosphere
In my opinion, I did not like this poem. Mistral fell extremely into
depression due to many problems. In my opinion, every problem has its
solution, and in the case of mistral, they could have also adopted a child if in
Indeed, she wanted to have the love between mother and son/daughter.
The tone of this poem was written with pain, sadness, and despair. All these
feelings were overwhelmed due to the death of a child. His mother suffered
a lot. His wish was for his son to be sleeping/resting in peace.
Biography
The full name of the author of 'The Sonets of Death' was Gabriela Mistral.
Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga. Gabriela was born in
Vicuña, Chile on April 7, 1889. Daughter of a teacher; Juan Jerónimo Godoy
Villanueva and a dressmaker called by Petronila Alcayaga Rojas. In 1914, Gabriela
Write a poem called "The Sonnets of Death." This poem reflects a lot
about the loss of a human being that corresponded to a great part of the heart of
Mistral. Before Mistral's death, (January 10, 1957, cause of cancer of
(pancreas) she already sensed her death.
Jacqueline Valenzuela
May 11, 2015
Spring 2015
Spanish 1311
Mrs. D. Hinck
Gabriela Mistral
Who was it?
Gabriela Mistral was a Chilean author and teacher who gained notoriety.
in his country and in the rest of the world as a consequence of his literary production
on one hand, but also for its innovative proposals in terms of reform
educational.
Who was it?
The Plea
Theme: The poem speaks from the point of view of the virgin.
Mary at the death of Jesus in the verses gives small
references to some objects such as the crown of spikes
referenced in this verse "tracing the temples"
like subtle vessels to the cross and to the forgiveness of
God for the sacrifice of Jesus.
Lyrical motif: serious (Solitude and sadness). The lyrical motif of a poem is
the theme of which the lyrical work deals with, that is to say, the feelings and emotions
that the speaker expresses or experiences.
The plea
Personification: attributing human qualities to what is not, example
they are extracted
verse:
I come now to ask you for one that was mine,
my glass of freshness, the honeycomb of my mouth
Synesthesia: a literary figure that connects sensations from different fields
sensorial. Example:
heat of my bones, sweet reason of the day,
the chirp in my ear, the sash of my garment.
Hyperbole: literary figure of exaggeration. Example
I tell you it was good, I tell you it had
the whole heart on the surface
Simile: comparison with a link, in this case the word like:
smooth in nature, frank as the light of day,
swollen with miracle like spring
the attitude of the speaker in this case, Maria, is one of sorrow since we
tell how it felt to have lost Jesus
The sonnets of death
It gives us a view of the impossibility of being able to heal everything.
the wound left by the death of a loved one in whom
the survivor, I mean, in the person who has to go through it
with the tragedy that their loved one has passed away
another life.
THEME: This poetry conveys the pain that is experienced afterwards
death of the beloved.
TIME: It focuses on a moment after losing the person you love.
SCENARIO: A dark area, most likely a
ground outdoors, or a path where she walks.
sonnets of death
Analysis of the poem
This poem reflects the emotional damage the author suffered because of the
suicide of her fiancé, Romelio Ureta.
At the beginning of the poem, it describes solitude, feeling its presence as
hidden by
elements that tend to confuse: the mist, the night. It alludes to their misfortune or
bad
luck: a wave of brine, land that has no spring; that is to say, it does not exist.
joy in their life.
Desolation
Literary figures
The thick and eternal fog; it is death.
literary figure: metaphor.
Brine wave is synonymous with misfortune and bad luck. The waters that
They wrap and lend avatars that are fully loaded with salt.
b) It is a metaphor and at the same time a symbol of existentialism
anguishing.
The wind makes its rounds of sobs and howls around my house
c) Personification: it attributes characteristics of beings to the wind.
4) The snowy landscape and the twilight is a figure of (contrast), white and
purple: d) an antithesis.
I want to die
e) alliteration
