The Distant Footsteps (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Cesar Vallejo
- First Published: 1918
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Children, Parents and children, Youth, Home, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Loneliness, South America or South Americans
The Poem
“The Distant Footsteps” is a short poem of twenty lines divided into four stanzas. The first and third stanzas are quatrains; the second and fourth stanzas are sestets. The poem is in free verse, a fact of some significance since many of the poems in César Vallejo’s first volume (in which this poem appears) are written in traditional, rhymed forms. By the end of the volume, Vallejo was working in free verse and moving toward the revolutionary techniques of his later poetry (see, for example, Trilce, 1922).
The title establishes the themes of...
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