The baroque poems Spanish are one of the jewels of Spanish-speaking poetry. This is one of the eras in history in which poetry occupied an important place in world literature, thanks to the quality of the exponents and the poetic forms cultivated at the time..
Baroque poetry emerges in Spain at the end of the 16th century and has its splendor in the 17th century. The poems of the Baroque transform everything raised in the Renaissance, and dares to speak of disenchantment, disappointment and the most dramatic faces of existence that deserve to be exalted by poetic languages.
This type of poetry stands out for privilege aesthetic delight, For this, the authors used figures and literary games, ornamentation, rarefied language, musicality and other stylistic resources that aimed to awaken emotions through words and envelop readers in a poetic aura..
Some of the topics covered by baroque poetry are love, heartbreak, discouragement, disappointment, nonconformity and despair, all facets of life that connect beings from different times through art.
The poems of the Spanish Baroque mark a before and after in the world of poetry written in Spanish. Here is given the monumental brilliance of the classical forms that were being explored for a long time, such as the tenth spinel and the sonnet..
The poets of the time made Spain had an important literary flowering, that made poetry written in Spanish have a privileged place within the universal arts.
Now after so much theory we want to share with you some of the Baroque poems.
Talking about poetry is not as fun as feeling it. That is why below I will share some of the best poems of the baroque with a short comment that stimulates your sensitivity.
"Faint, dare, be furious,
rough, tender, liberal, elusive,
encouraged, deadly, deceased, alive,
loyal, traitorous, cowardly and spirited;
not find outside the good center and rest,
be happy, sad, humble, haughty,
angry, brave, runaway,
satisfied, offended, suspicious;
flee the face to the clear disappointment,
drink poison by süave liquor,
forget the benefit, love the harm;
believe that a heaven fits into a hell,
give life and soul to disappointment;
This is love, whoever tasted it knows it. "
Love will always be a mixture of paradoxes, it makes everything of ours emerge, the light and the shadow, the "good" and the "bad".
This confrontation teaches us to discover parts of ourselves that we did not know until then. Emotions that we dared not recognize or explore.
"In chasing me, World, what are you interested in?
How do I offend you, when I just try
put beauties in my understanding
and not my understanding in the beauties?
I do not value treasures or riches;
and so it always makes me happier
put riches in my thought
not my thought of riches.
And I do not estimate beauty that, defeated,
It is civil spoil of the ages,
nor wealth pleases me fementida,
taking for the best, in my truths,
consume vanities of life
than to consume life in vanities. "
The world has been shaped by a system that places more value on appearance than content. What the poet does is discover the beauty that hides on the side that society rejects.
She is one of the female exponents of the Baroque poems, that will leave us breathless, with each of its incendiary lyrics.
"Close my eyes the last
shadow that the white day will take me;
and can unleash this soul of mine
hour to his anxious eagerness to flatter;
but not from that other part on the shore
it will leave the memory, where it burned;
swimming knows my flame the cold water,
And lose respect for severe law.
Soul to whom an entire prison god has been,
veins what humor to so much fire they have given,
marrows, which have gloriously burned,
your body will leave, not your care;
they will be ashes, but they will make sense;
dust they will be, more dust in love. "
This is one of the Spanish Baroque poems most recognized. Here we explore the essence of love as something eternal that not even death can take away.
"The king dreams that he is king, and he lives
with this deception sending,
arranging and governing;
and this applause, which receives
borrowed, in the wind writes,
and turns him to ashes
death, strong misery!
That there is one who tries to reign,
seeing that he has to wake up
in the dream of death?
The rich man dreams of his wealth,
What more care offers you;
the poor man who suffers dreams
their misery and poverty;
the one who begins to thrive dreams,
the one who toils and pretends dreams,
the one who offends and offends dreams,
and in the world, in conclusion,
everyone dreams what they are,
although no one understands it.
I dream i'm here
these prisons loaded,
and I dreamed that in another state
I saw myself more flattering.
What is life? A frenzy.
What is life? An illusion,
a shadow, a fiction,
and the greatest good is small:
that all life is a dream,
and dreams are dreams. "
This monologue is part of the work Life is a dream, one of the most awarded of the Spanish Golden Age and although it is part of a complete work, it is considered one of the best Baroque poems Spanish.
Here, Calderón de la Barca puts us in front of a philosophical idea in which reality and dreams end up being confused, so much so that if we look at it carefully, no one could assure that it is not actually in a dream.
"Oh fog of the most serene state,
Hellish fury, evil born serpent!
Oh poisonous hidden viper
From green meadow to fragrant bosom!
Oh among the nectar of Poison mortal love,
That in a crystal glass you take life!
Oh sword on me with a hair seized,
Of the loving spur hard brake!
Oh zeal, of the eternal executioner favor!,
Go back to the sad place where you were,
Or to the kingdom (if you fit there) of fright;
But you will not fit there, because there has been so much
That you eat of yourself and you don't finish,
You must be greater than hell itself. "
This poem confronts us with the problem of jealousy, as something ungovernable that can become hell not only for a person, but for love itself.
Jealousy is one of the problems that most destroys tranquility, self-love and relationships. As poetry seeks to make us feel an alien experience, this poem achieves by far, describe what a jealous person feels.
At this point, it should be noted that jealousy is a common theme within the Baroque poems.
"When Precious the tambourine plays
and the sweet hurts are the vain airs,
pearls are that she pours with her hands;
flowers are fired from the mouth.
Suspend the soul, and mad sanity,
it is left to sweet superhuman acts,
that, clean, honest and healthy,
his fame to the raised heaven touches.
Hanging from the least of her hair
it carries a thousand souls, and has its plants
Love rendered over and over arrow.
Blind and shine with its beautiful suns,
his empire love for them keeps him,
and even greater greatness of his being suspected. "
In this poem by the great Miguel de Cervantes, he shows the effects of love. In particular, there is the loving exaltation of a woman who has stolen the heart of the poet and which is evidenced in the beauty extracted from a simple act such as playing the tambourine..
"Make square, give entrance,
that is triumphing love
of a deadly battle
in which he has been victorious. "
Love is one of the most intense battles of human beings. If we talk about a relationship being an association of two individuals who have their own internal challenges, matching the desire of two beings will always mean a battle, in which when we triumph we feel that we have reached the highest point in the universe..
To Saint Peter, in a squall, coming from Rome
"Sovereign fisherman, in whose nets
the elder monarchs have been
blissfully imprisoned, and changed
their prisons and bounties in glory;
you who open and close the çielo can,
with a powerful key, to your cattle,
and you have reached on earth
with porphyry columns and walls:
the eyes return to the sea enraged,
and then maybe he dared to wet your plant
even being 'sniffed out of your game fee,
his' swelling breaks, silences his noise,
and taught disciple, lift
my fee and my feet with a mighty hand. "
The first thing to highlight in this poem is the archaic use of language, where the linguistic forms of the time are highlighted.
This sonnet is dedicated to a public figure, it is a very distinctive feature of the Baroque, where the virtues of the most prominent citizens were exalted.
"Pure, glowing rose,
flame emula
that goes out with the day,
How are you born so full of joy
if you know that the age that heaven gives you
it's just a short, swift flight?
and the tips of your branch will not be worth,
nor your beautiful purple
to stop a point
hasty fate execution.
The same winged fence,
What am I seeing laughing,
I already fear muffled,
swift spoil of the burning flame.
For the leaves of your frizzy bosom
gave you love of his soft feathered wings,
and gold in her hair gave to your forehead.
Oh faithful image of you, pilgrim!
Bathe in its divine blood color
of the deity that gave the foams;
What about this, puffy flower, and this could not
make the sharp beam less violent?
Rob yourself in an hour,
steal your fire in silence
color and breath;
you have not yet your wings scorched
and they already fly to the ground passed out.
So close, so close
your life is dying,
that I doubt if the Aurora in her tears
withered, your birth or death cries. "
For Rioja, life is so ethereal and subtle that the transition between life and death is almost illusory. In this poem he celebrates the rose and his passion for existence, although death is always on his heels. Life and death is a duality from which we cannot escape.
"My uneasy lover
such tender torments happen
that understands that it burns
and notice that you are the fire.
Blind to adoring you, and blind
of not enjoying yourself, you give me
with rigorous compass
the less good favors,
and it is not fair that at least
you forget what is more. "
This tenth puts us in front of the burning desire and its effects. When we desire someone who does not meet our expectations, emotions are stirred and life becomes indecipherable.
Pain is the price of desire, and whoever is passionate is logical that he faces anxiety, due to the need to seize the object of his desire.
"Look no more, lady,
with such great attention that figure,
don't kill your own beauty.
Flee, lady, the proof
of what your beauty can in you.
And don't make the sample
revenge of my pious and new evil.
The sad case moves you
of the boy turned among the flowers
in flower, dead of love of their loves. "
Beauty is one of those in charge of bringing us closer to love. Love as an idea, in the Baroque poems, implies a resounding despair for the loved one, a vital dependence on our object of desire.
"I want to sing of Cadmus,
I want to sing of Atridas:
more oh! what love alone
just sing my lyre.
I renew the instrument,
the strings dumb quickly;
but if I from Alcides,
she sighs in love.
Well, brave heroes,
stay from this day,
because of love alone
just sing my lyre. "
In this poem we explore love by highlighting mythological characters for whom love has been their condemnation..
The lyre itself is an instrument associated with love and with the exaltation of poetry, in this line of meaning, the poem takes on a tremendous meaning, since the poet in a state of heartbreak gives his voice to the lyre.
"Beautiful owner of mine,
for whom without fruit I cry,
Well, the more I adore you
all the more distrust
to overcome the dodge
that tries to compete with beauty!
The natural custom
I look at you changed:
what everyone likes
it causes you grief;
the prayer makes you angry,
love freezes you, crying hardens you.
Beauty makes you up
divine-I do not ignore it,
because by deity I adore you-;
but what reason do you have
what perfections such
break their natural statutes?
If I have been to your beauty
so tender in love,
if I consider despised
and I want hated,
What law suffers, or what jurisdiction,
that you hate me because I love you? "
Love is not always reciprocated. In most cases, people who do not see their love reciprocated, believe that the other hates or hates them.
However, this is not an effect of love, but a consequence that romantic love is something that should not be forced, and as another writer would say "The fact that someone does not love you the way you do, does not mean that they do not love you. "
"Go and stay, and with staying, leave,
leave without a soul, and go with someone else's soul,
hear the sweet voice of a siren
and not being able to detach itself from the tree;
burn like the candle and waste away,
making towers on tender sand;
fall from a sky, and be a demon in pain,
and to never be sorry;
speak among the silent solitudes,
borrow on faith patience,
and what is temporary to call eternal;
believe suspicions and deny truths,
is what they call in the world absence,
fire in the soul, and hell in life. "
Life is an eternal movement between welcome and farewell. This mixture of paradoxes is what makes life confusing, but also interesting. Learning to navigate in this sea dualities is a condition so that life does not hurt us so much.
With sonnets like these, it is indisputable that Lope de Vega is one of the best exponents within the Baroque poems.
"It's burning ice, it's frozen fire,
It is a wound that hurts and does not feel,
is a dreamed good, a bad present,
it's a very tiring short break.
It is an oversight that gives us care,
a coward with a brave name,
a lonely walk among the people,
a love only be loved.
It's an imprisoned freedom,
that lasts until the last paroxysm;
disease that grows if cured.
This is the love child, this is his abyss.
See what friendship he will have with nothing
he who is contrary to himself in everything. "
In this beautiful poem, Quevedo draws love as a child for its ability to be playful, to move from one side to the other and to gather all those contradictions in the body of the lovers.
So far our selection of Baroque poems, we hope you enjoy them and dare to explore a little more of the wonderful world of Spanish poetry, where you will find the lines that draw the spirit of an era in a masterful way.
Baroque poems are a way to connect with the human soul and its timeless state.
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