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Encyclopedia > Manuel Machado (poet)

Manuel Machado y Ruiz (Seville, 1874Madrid, 1947) was a Spanish poet and a prominent member of the Generation of 98. NO8DO (I was not abandoned) Location Coordinates : ( ) Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Sevilla (Spanish) Spanish name Sevilla Founded 8th-9th century BC Postal code 41001-41080 Website http://www. ... 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Location Coordinates : 40° 23’N , 3°43′0″W Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Villa de Madrid (Spanish) Spanish name Villa de Madrid Founded 9th century Postal code 28001-28080 Area code 34 (Spain) + 91 (Villa de Madrid) Website http://www. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Spanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. ... Also called Generation of 1898 (Spanish: Generación del 98 or In Spain, the novelists, poets, essayists, and thinkers active at the time of the Spanish-American War (1898), who reinvigorated Spanish letters and restored Spain to a position of intellectual and literary prominence that it had not held for...


He was Antonio Machado's brother. In collaboration with his brother he wrote several plays, such as La duquesa de Benamejí, La prima Fernanda, Juan de Mañara, Las adelfas, El hombre que murió en la guerra, and Desdichas de la fortuna o Julianillo Valcárcel. However, the most famous play by the two brothers is La Lola se va a los Puertos. Antonio Machado y Ruiz (July 26, 1875 – February 22, 1939) was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of 98. ...


Manuel was deeply interested in Andalusian folklore, and some of his poems have structures taken from flamenco music. Andalusian Referring to Andalusia A type of horse: see Andalusian horse This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Bailaora(dancer) of Flamenco Belén Maya, photograph taken by Gilles Larrain at his studio, 2001 Flamenco is one of the great European nonacademic musical forms. ...


The Spanish Civil War dramatically split Spain in two parts and also split the Machado brothers' friendship, as a result of which they embarked on separate poetical and personal projects. Combatants Spanish Republic CNT-FAI UGT POUM Soviet Union International Brigades Spanish State Falangists Carlists Fascist Italy Nazi Germany Commanders Manuel Azaña Francisco Largo Caballero Juan Negrín Francisco Franco Casualties Civilians killed/wounded = hundreds of thousands The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from July 17, 1936 to April...


Some of Manuel Machado poems are as famous as these ones:


CANTARES


Vino, sentimiento, guitarra y poesía


hacen los cantares de la patria mía.


Cantares...


Quien dice cantares dice Andalucía.



A la sombra fresca de la vieja parra,


un mozo moreno rasguea la guitarra...


Cantares...


Algo que acaricia y algo que desgarra.



La prima que canta y el bordón que llora...


Y el tiempo callado se va hora tras hora.


Cantares...


Son dejos fatales de la raza mora.



No importa la vida, que ya está perdida,


y, después de todo, ¿qué es eso, la vida?...


Cantares...


Cantando la pena, la pena se olvida.



Madre, pena, suerte, pena, madre, muerte,


ojos negros, negros, y negra la suerte...


Cantares...


En ellos el alma del alma se vierte.



Cantares. Cantares de la patria mía,


quien dice cantares dice Andalucía.


Cantares...


No tiene más notas la guitarra mía.



CASTILLA


El ciego sol se estrella


en las duras aristas de las armas,


llaga de luz los petos y espaldares


y flamea en las puntas de las lanzas.


El ciego sol, la sed y la fatiga.


Por la terrible estepa castellana,


al destierro, con doce de los suyos


-polvo, sudor y hierro- , el Cid cabalga.


Cerrado está el mesón a piedra y lodo.


Nadie responde. Al pomo de la espada


y al cuento de las picas el postigo


va a ceder... ¡Quema el sol, el aire abrasa!


A los terribles golpes,


de eco ronco, una voz pura, de plata


y de cristal responde... Hay una niña


muy débil y muy blanca


en el umbral. Es toda


ojos azules y en los ojos lágrimas.


Oro pálido nimba


su carita curiosa y asustada.


“¡Buen Cid, pasad...! El rey nos dará muerte,


arruinará la casa,


y sembrará de sal el pobre campo


que mi padre trabaja...


Idos. El cielo os colme de venturas...


¡En nuestro mal, oh Cid no ganáis nada!”


Calla la niña y llora sin gemido...


Un sollozo infantil cruza la escuadra


de feroces guerreros,


y una voz inflexible grita “¡En marcha!”


El ciego sol, la sed y la fatiga.


Por la terrible estepa castellana,


al destierro, con doce de los suyos


-polvo, sudor y hierro-, el Cid cabalga.



 

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