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Coincide la crítica en ver Sombra del paraíso como un libro de gran belleza, tendente a reflejar un mundo soñado que ansía lo puro y elemental, evocando a través de los recuerdos infantiles una suerte del alba del universo. Mágico edén donde el poeta vivió ahora 'recuerda sin saberlo', dijo de él su propio autor en una muy usada carta a su amigo y crítico Dámaso Alonso. Pe
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Paperback, 206 pages
Published
December 28th 2000
by Editorial Castalia
(first published January 1st 1972)
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vicente-aleixandre
There was no rain, but gentle arms
seemed to dominate the air,
and your shoulders felt their enchanting presence,
while you address those beings that the dawning sun adorned with
feathered magic.
*
You were born from a yawning chasm in the night's insomnia of my
solitary fear
*
I have no name; for I am
only memory severed from you.
*
Why do I look at you, with your eyes so dark,
a living velvet in which I wound my life?
*
A heavy cloud, perhaps laden with starry thoughts,
paused above the water, transient on ...more
seemed to dominate the air,
and your shoulders felt their enchanting presence,
while you address those beings that the dawning sun adorned with
feathered magic.
*
You were born from a yawning chasm in the night's insomnia of my
solitary fear
*
I have no name; for I am
only memory severed from you.
*
Why do I look at you, with your eyes so dark,
a living velvet in which I wound my life?
*
A heavy cloud, perhaps laden with starry thoughts,
paused above the water, transient on ...more

Vicente Aleixandre composed these poems in 1939, shortly before the end of the Spanish Civil War and after the end of what is often called the "Second Golden Age" of Spanish art & writers. This was a dark period for Spain, and for the world. My favorite, the last two lines from the poem "The Body and the Soul : "Soul of love that holds vigil but is reluctant to depart, and at last withdraws tenderly cold."
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Conveniencias críticas han hecho frecuente la acotación de dos grandes zonas o épocas en la obra de nuestro poeta.
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"Siempre te ven mis ojos, ciudad de mis días marinos."
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Spanish poet, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. Vicente Aleixandre has been called an existentialist, a mystic pantheist, and a neoromantic. Although Aleixandre did not consider himself an orthodox surrealist, his poems contained surrealistic images and Freudian subconscious associations. Central motifs are erotic love, solitude, time, and death.
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