The Eternal Dice (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Cesar Vallejo
- First Published: 1918
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Gambling, Poetry or poets, God, Fate or fatalism, Life, philosophy of
The Poem
“The Eternal Dice” is a poem of four stanzas, the first and third having lines of alternating rhyme in the original Spanish, and the second and fourth relying on internal rhyme and assonance. It is the eighteenth poem in the fifth section, entitled “Thunderclaps,” of César Vallejo’s first published book of poems. The title is suggestive of Stéphane Mallarmé’s classic poem Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard (1897; Dice Thrown Never Will Annul Chance, 1965; also translated as A Dice-Throw), in which the poet explores the...
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