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During the Renaissance, poetry became partitioned into culteranismo and conceptismo, which essentially became rivals. Culteranismo used bleak language and hyperbaton. These works largely included neologisms and mythological topics. Such characteristics made this form of poetry highly complex, making comprehension difficult.
[1] [2] The lines are octosyllabic (eight syllables to a line); [1] [3] a similar but far less common form is hexasyllabic (six syllables to a line) and is known in Spanish as romancillo (a diminutive of romance); [1] that, or any other form of less than eight syllables may also be referred to as romance corto ("short romance").
In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order.
The structure of the décima suggests that it is derived from the Spanish glosa, which also employs eight-syllable lines and a break between the fourth and fifth lines of a ten-line Istanza. [6] Décimas are generally anonymous. Though many decimeros claim to have composed the décimas they recite, this is rarely the case.
Download as PDF; Printable version ... 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. C. Cantar de mio Cid (5 P) Cantares de gesta (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Epic poems in Spanish"
Latin American women have been a force of innovation in poetry in Spanish since the sonnets and romances by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in the 17th century. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Sor Juana's poems spanned a range of forms and themes of the Spanish Golden Age , and her writings display inventiveness, wit, and a vast range of secular and theological ...
Spanish literature of the Middle Ages concludes with La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas. Important Renaissance themes are poetry, with Garcilaso de la Vega and Juan Boscán; religious literature, with Fray Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz, and Santa Teresa de Jesús; and prose, with the anonymous El Lazarillo de Tormes. Among the principal ...
In the poem, for example, the speaker, Joaquin, traces both his ancestry to the Spanish conquistadores and the Aztecs they conquered; he also identifies with revolutionary figures of Mexican history such as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Benito Juárez, Pancho Villa and Joaquin Murrieta who was a legendary Californian known for seeking retribution ...