Amado Nervo (real name: Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo) (August 27, 1870 – May 24, 1919) was an Mexican poet. His poetry was known for its use of metaphor and reference to mysticism. Jump to: navigation, search August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Jump to: navigation, search In language, a metaphor is a rhetorical trope defined as a direct comparison between two seemingly unrelated subjects. ...

Nervo was born in Tepic, Nayarit. His father died when he was 13. He was a journalist for a living. He founded in 1898, along with Jesús Valenzuela, La Revista Moderna ("The Modern Review"). He spent the first years of the 20th century in Europe, particularly in Paris. He then moved back to Mexico, where he was appointed plenipotentiary minister in Argentina and Uruguay. Jump to: navigation, search Tepic is the capital city of the Mexican state of Nayarit. ... Jump to: navigation, search Nayarit is a state in the west of Mexico. ... World map showing Europe (geographically) When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

In 1901 while he was in Paris he met and married Ana Cecilia Luisa Dailliez. They lived happily until her untimely death in 1912. Out of his grief and desperation, Nervo wrote his most important work, "La Amada Inmóvil" ("The Motionless Loved One"), published posthumously in 1922. Other of his works are "Perlas Negras" ("Black Pearls"), 1898; "Serenidad" ("Serenity"), 1914; "Elevación" ("Elevation"), 1917; and "Plenitud" ("Plenitude"), 1918. He wrote mostly poetry, but also wrote short stories.

He was a modernist, in a similar way as Rubén Darío. His poetry deals with such themes as love, death, erotism, and mysticism, both Christian and Hinduist. He is perhaps the most important Mexican poet of the nineteenth century. Jump to: navigation, search Rubén Darío Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916) was a Nicaraguan poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Rubén Darío. ...

Sources

• Enciclopedia Universal Sopena, Editorial Sopena, Barcelona, 1986
• Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, United States, 1995