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Machado, Antonio, --1875-1939; Machado, Antonio, --1875-1939;

Abstract

This study proposes to demonstrate that time is the general emotional basis for the lyric poetry of Antonio Machado, and to point out the human quality with which it is expressed in his verses. First we examined his poetic theory to determine how the sense of time is set forth in the composition of the poem, and noted the one specific example he offers as a demonstration of said theory. Then we went on to observe in many of his verses that he indeed follow the precept he laid down in prose, and through the analysis of these poems we attempted to penetrate, with him, more deeply into the spirit and expression of that powerful feeling of time. Having come to the conclusion that time and life have the same meaning in his poetry, we proceeded to classify a considerable number of poems according to the differences in their subject matter, attempting in each case to offer an adequate interpretation of the meaning and to indicate the way in which the expression of time was revealed. Consequently, we studied those verses in which the poet wrote of old memories associated with certain things around him that brought to his mind the remembrance of his youth, those in which dialogue is used as a means to give time a more meaningful significance and those in which time is represented by an object such as a clock. We did not disregard the feeling of time in those verses in which symbols are used as its major representation, and through the different themes of his poetry we did our best to define the presence of time and its emotional values in his verses. Finally, we extended our investigation and study to those poems where time does not seem to be demonstrate so obviously in order to support our thesis that time is a basic element in his work, and the root of the philosophical matters with which it deals.

Year of Submission

1972

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Department

Department of Foreign Languages

First Advisor

Donald Hawley

Second Advisor

Manuel Febles

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Date Original

1972

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1 PDF file (88 leaves)

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spa

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