A Few Things Explained (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Europe or Europeans, 1930’s, War, Civil wars, Spain or Spanish people, Fascism, Madrid
The Poem
“A Few Things Explained” is a lyric poem written in free verse in which the poet directly addresses the reader in an attempt both to explain why his poetry has become more sociopolitical and to denounce the Nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War.
The seventy-nine-line, twelve-stanza poem can be divided into four sections. The first section consists of the first two stanzas. In the first of these, the poet anticipates questions his reader might have concerning the rather sudden and radical change his poetry has undergone. “You will ask,” he writes,...
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