Transcendent and historical: Rafael Alberti’s poetry during the Spanish Civil War
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i11p134-175Keywords:
Poetry, History, Spanish Civil War, Rafael Alberti, CircumstanceAbstract
During the course of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Rafael Alberti lived in Madrid in the headquarters of the Alianza de Intelectuales Antifascistas, where he acted as the secretary. In that period, the poet developed many activities, as the organization of El Mono Azul, the Guerrillas del Teatro and the issue of the Romancero de la Guerra Civil. In this collection, we found some of the nine romances he writes between August 1936 and January 1937. In September 1937, “Capital de la gloria” is released. In the present paper, we aim to investigate how the formal difference between the vigorous romances and the deeply moved poems of “Capital de la gloria” might disclose a change in the way Alberti treats the relation between History and the particular self. The experience of war leads him to question the human condition, the poet’s work and the nature of poetry and it is through language he struggles to comprehend the complexity of that moment.
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