The Peasant Women from Cuá (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernesto Cardenal
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Epistle/letter in verse
- Genres: Poetry, Epistolary literature
The Poem
Ernesto Cardenal’s “The Peasant Women from Cuá” consists of seventy lines of free verse in the reportorial style of a vivid yet unadorned chronicle of the Nicaraguan civil war. The poem is based upon actual events during the President Anastasio Somoza García era and serves as a telling account of the tumultuous events. It is representative of oppression of peasants in the mountainous regions of Nicaragua, in which insurrection brewed and initiated a popular revolution.
This documentary poem evokes the trauma and agony of women who are left to deal with...
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