Profane Hymns (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Félix Rubén Garc Sarmiento
- First Published: 1896
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Poetry or poets, Beauty, Spain or Spanish people, Knights or knighthood, Fairy tales, Nobility, Princes or princesses, Erotica
Critical Evaluation:
The poems in Profane Hymns are linked through the feelings and emotions the various lyrics evoke, rather than the ideas they present. It seems to have been Rubén Darío’s purpose to re-create in his readers an appreciation of the awakening to a sense of pleasure, including sensual, even erotic pleasure, which the poet himself encountered in his own life. The poems attempt to recapture those emotions through the use of allusive, symbolic language and setting. While there is certainly an acknowledgment that such pleasure is fleeting, there is also...
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