The Anger That Breaks the Man into Children (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Cesar Vallejo
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
The Poem
The anger in César Vallejo’s “The Anger That Breaks the Man into Children” is a force that shatters and divides so that it may reach a point of unification, the point of origin. The poem presents a reversal of Darwinian evolution as each stanza fragments its subject into increasingly numerous portions. The anger, specifically, as Vallejo reiterates in each stanza, “the anger of the poor,” works to break down human constructions and social orders. Four different directions this anger takes are described in four five-line stanzas of a similar, almost cyclical,...
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