As we already told you in the previous article, in this book the weight of politics is felt in a more clear and constant way than in the previous ones since the poet abandons the «Ivory tower»In which he had symbolically enclosed himself in his previous works to get a little closer to the needs and complaints of the people, so it is not strange to see verses dedicated to presidents of state in some passages of the book.
In addition, the Hispanic world is very present. In previous works by this author, the Hispanic world the colonialist past, although in this one the approach is more towards the positive values of Spanish culture, especially the literary ones, approaching on multiple occasions the figure of Don Quixote, the ingenious mad gentleman fruit of the pen of Miguel de Cervantes. of the great world authors of all ages.
However, take a look at the past to remember the pre-Columbian American peoples in order to praise those cultures and suspicious of the North of the American continentThat is to say, the United States, the birthplace of some of his favorite writers, which he nevertheless sees as a political threat to the people of the countries of the South of the continent, who are oppressed. Darío proposes the union of the South against the North.
Besides all this the poet reflect on existence, and reveals the weariness, boredom and bitterness that invade his being at this stage of life in which he can no longer ask himself "blue verses or profane songs." Pessimism takes its toll on him and is felt in many of the passages in the book, especially in the poem with which it ends and which is entitled "The fatal."
More information - "Songs of life and hope", the third great work by Rubén Darío
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Source - Oxford University Press