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Throughout high school, Jiménez and his older brother, Roberto, worked as janitors 35 hours a week each to support their family. [7] [8] After high school, Jiménez received several scholarships and went on to attend Santa Clara University, getting his B.A. in Spanish Studies in 1966.
He was one of the few Chicano poets to have "gained recognition while writing mostly in Spanish" within the United States. [1] His poems have been also translated into Irish and Swedish. [ 2 ] He made many guest appearances at public schools so that he could help inspire and influence young people to write their own poetry [ 2 ] especially ...
Pietri himself started to write poems as a student at Haaren High School. [1] After graduating from high school, Pietri worked in a variety of jobs until he was drafted into the Army and sent to fight in the Vietnam War. The experiences that he faced in the Army and Vietnam, plus the discrimination that he witnessed while growing up in New York ...
After being named California’s Poet Laureate by Governor Jerry Brown in 2012, Herrera created the i-Promise Joanna/Yo te Prometo Joanna Project, an anti-bullying poetry project. Joanna was an elementary school girl who was bullied and killed in an afterschool fight. The first half asks students to send in poems about the effects of bullying.
Medieval Spanish poets recognized the Mester de Juglaría as a literary form written by the minstrels (juglares) and composed of varying line length and use of assonance instead of rhyme. These poems were sung to uneducated audiences, nobles and peasants alike.
Poets during the World War II and under General Franco in peacetime: Juan Ramón Jiménez received the Nobel Prize in Literature 1956, "For his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity." Was the last survivor of Generation of 1898.
In these works, the poet writes not only of the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War and his own incarceration, but also of the death of an infant son and the struggle of his wife and another son to survive in poverty. The intensity and simplicity of the poems, combined with the extraordinary situation of the poet, give them remarkable power. [13] [14]
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