The Nine Monsters (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Cesar Vallejo
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Suffering, 1930’s, Pain, War, Death or dying, Government, Speeches, Civil wars, Spain or Spanish people
The Poem
“The Nine Monsters” is a seventy-line poem, divided into four stanzas of varying lengths. The poem is written loosely in the form of an address, perhaps a speech, in which the poet discourses on the subjects of pain and misfortune to an audience of “human men” and “brother men.” It would appear that the poem begins somewhere in the middle of the speech, since the opening line of the poem implies continued speech.
After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, César Vallejo was active as a vocal defender of the Spanish Republic. In Paris, where...
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