Góngora: most important works

Luis de Gongora It's one of the Spanish poets best known in the history of the literature of our country. Known for the peculiar stylistic resources of him as the highest representative of the culteranismo and because of his enmity with another famous Spanish poet, Quevedo, there are many good works that he left behind and that we would like you to know a little more thoroughly. In a PROFESSOR we have prepared a lesson with the most important works of Góngora so that you discover something more about this wonderful author and the relevant poetry of him that so many fell in love and still fall in love with.

Index

1. Brief biography of Luis de Góngora
2. Solitudes, one of the most important works of Góngora
3. Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea
4. Fable of Pyramus and Thisbe
5. The Panegyric by Luis de Góngora

Born in Cordova in the year 1561Luis de Góngora grew up in a wealthy family and studied at the University of Salamanca. He was appointed racionero in the cathedral of Córdoba, a fact that led him to travel through much of Spain and to know the different cities and poets. It was in the year 1603, when he was in the court of Valladolid, when he began to write numerous letters that time Later they became very famous at the same time that he strengthened his friendship with Pedro Espinosa and the well-known enmity of him with the poet

In his first compositions, a very satirical part is already guessed in his works, to which he ended up joining a cultured and elegant style that was defined as culteranismo or gongorism and it is characterized by having as its main objective to make the expression more intense. His style undoubtedly begins to become very personal, his language uses expressions very cultured constantly and uses numerous baroque hyperbole as well as hyperbatones and alliterations that enrich the lexicon in a very complicated and colorful way. His fame was enormous during the Baroque and he became one of the most recognized poets of the world. Spanish Baroque.

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The Solitudes of Góngorais a work composed in the year 1613 and one of the most famous texts of the poet. Written in silva, the verses are followed indeterminately by heptasyllables and hendecasyllables rhyming completely free. The poem was originally going to be a project divided into four parts, however, Góngora was only able to finish the part that bears the name of:Dedication to the Duke of Béjar and the first two Solitudes.

The poem argument tells the story of a castaway young that he arrives on an island and is picked up by the local goatherds, who make him end up attending a wedding. The action takes three days in total and is used references to mythology as well as a beautiful and detailed description of Nature that captivates the reader. The poem is inspired by the episode of Nausícaa of the Odyssey and it is an example of the use of the literary topic: "court disparagement and village praise". The nature reveals itself as the uncorrupted in front of the worldly noise of the towns, courtiers and merchants. In this other lesson we offer you a literary analysis of The Solitudes of Góngora.

This is another of Góngora's most important works. It is one poema of content mythological that the poet published in 1612 and is framed within the genre of epilio or epic poem short in length. In it, the story of Polyphemus, son of Poseidon, who appears narrated inThe metamorphoses of Ovid. The poem is really more descriptive than narrative due to the intention of the poet not to comply with a moral or didactic intention but rather focus on the most visual of the story.

There are some big differences between the version of Ovidio and that of Gongora, and it is that the latter ends up turning history into a drama rather than irony initial as was Ovid's. He introduces the way in which Galatea and Acis fall in love, obviated in the other version, and uses this fact to unleash Polyphemus ire by discovering their love. Another great change is constituted by the accident with which Polyphemus discovers the lovers, that is, he does not seek them deliberately. In addition, the three main characters are described more fully and in a more humane way.

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Written in 1608, in the style of the eight-syllable verses with assonance rhyme and some other loose verse, is considered a Romance. It's one of the manuscripts considered more complex and difficult to understand all his works since he uses a wide repertoire of words with different meanings each of them and the neologisms and cultisms appear throughout the poem.

The main theme is that of the love of two young people, in Babylon, and all those acts that they carry out to be together that end up leading to death due to confusion. The burlesque and the sublime they intermingle giving rise to sublimation in this poem.

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And we end this tour of the most important works of Góngora to talk about "The panegyric", written in 1617 is considered one of the more complex poems and extensive by Luis de Góngora next to the Fable of Pyramus and Thisbe.

The manuscript consisted of 632 verses with 79 stanzas composed of hendecasyllable verses. With this poem the author makes an acclamation to Don Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas (Duke of Lerma during the reign of Felipe III) since, Panegyric is associated with a nickname of the god Apollo and in classical Greek theater it is used to designate a song of praise and admiration to the god. Apollo.

Its structure is similar to that of a speech:

• Exordium to fix the theme.
• Demonstration of each and every one of the character virtues.
• Epilogue apotheosis.

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