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In modern Spanish the title might be rendered El Poema de mi Señor or El Poema de mi Jefe. The expression cantar (literally "to sing") was used to mean a chant or a song . The word Cid ( Çid in old Spanish orthography), was a derivation of the dialectal Arabic word سيد sîdi or sayyid , which means lord or master .
Julia de Burgos, one of the greatest poets to have been born in Puerto Rico; author of "Yo misma fui mi ruta" and "Poema Río Grande de Loíza". [35] German William Cabassa Barber, award-winning drama, science fiction and poetry writer. [36] Pedro Cabiya, writer, poet and filmmaker. Author of the seminal Historias tremendas.
Y yo con ganae gritate ¿Y tu agüela, aonde ejtá? A ti te gujta el fojtrote, Y a mi brujca maniguá. Tú te laj tiraj de blanco ¿Y tu agüela, aonde ejtá? Erej blanquito enchapao Que dentraj en sosiedá, Temiendo que se conojca La mamá de tu mamá. Aquí el que no tiene dinga Tiene mandinga . . ¡ja, ja! Por eso yo te pregunto
Moros y Cristianos (Spanish: [ˈmoɾos i kɾisˈtjanos]) or Moros i Cristians (Valencian: [ˈmɔɾoz i kɾistiˈans]), literally in English Moors and Christians, is a set of festival activities which are celebrated in many towns and cities of Spain, mainly in the southern Valencian Community.
Álvar Fáñez, called Minaya, passed quickly into one of the heroic legends of the era, being a main character in Poema de Mio Cid. There, he is transformed from his historical role as loyal vassal and general of Alfonso VI to a similar role in the retinue of El Cid, often given military command when Cid splits his forces, and accompanying him ...
César Vallejo was born to Francisco de Paula Vallejo Benítez and María de los Santos Mendoza Gurrionero in Santiago de Chuco, a remote village in the Peruvian Andes. He was the youngest of eleven children. His grandfathers were both Spanish priests, and his grandmothers were both indigenous Peruvians. [2]
Góngora was born to a noble family in Córdoba, where his father, Francisco de Argote, was corregidor, or judge. In a Spanish era when purity of Christian lineage (limpieza de sangre) was needed to gain access to education or official appointments, he adopted the surname of his mother, Leonor de Góngora. [2]
Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla was born into a well-to-do family in Barrio Río Cañas of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, on January 11, 1839. [2] His parents were Eugenio María de Hostos y Rodríguez (1807–1897) and María Hilaria de Bonilla y Cintrón (died 1862, Madrid, Spain), both of Spanish descent.