Lira póstuma

Por Rubén Darío

Lira Póstuma es una colección de poemas del autor nicaragüense Rubén Darío. En ella se tocan temas como la búsqueda de la belleza, el cromatismo, el mundo interior, la unidad, la mitología, el erotismo o el exotismo, temas estrellas del poeta. -

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: SAGA Egmont
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 11 nov 2020
• ISBN: 9788726551150

Rubén Darío

Rubén Darío (1867-1916) was a Nicaraguan poet. Following his parents’ separation, he was raised in the city of León by Félix and Bernarda Ramirez, his maternal aunt and uncle. In 1879, after years of hardship following the death of Félix, Darío was sent to a Jesuit school, where he began writing poetry. He found publication in El Termómetro and El Ensayo, a popular daily and a local literary magazine, and was recognized as a promising young writer. Darío soon gained a reputation for his liberal politics and was denied an opportunity to study in Europe due to his opposition of the Catholic Church. In 1882, he travelled to El Salvador, where he studied French poetry with Francisco Gavidia and sharpened his sense of traditional poetic forms. Back in Nicaragua, he suffered from financial hardship and poor health while attempting to broaden his style through experimentation with new poetic forms. In 1886, he traveled to Chile, where he published his masterpiece Azul… (1888), a groundbreaking blend of poetry and prose that helped define and distinguish Hispanic Modernism. The success of Azul… enabled Darío to find work as a correspondent for La Nación, a popular periodical based in Buenos Aires. He travelled widely throughout his career, working as a journalist and ambassador in Argentina, France, and Spain. Darío continued to write and publish poetry, courting controversy with a series of poems written on Theodore Roosevelt and the United States which displayed his inconsistent political position on the impact of American imperialism on Latin America. Towards the end of his life, suffering from advanced alcoholism, Darío returned to his native city of León, where he was buried after a lengthy funeral at the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary.

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En sangre y en llanto está la tierra antigua.

La Muerte cautelosa, o abrasante o ambigua

pasa sobre las huellas

del Cristo de pies sonrosados

que regó lágrimas y estrellas.

La humanidad, inquieta,

ve la muerte de un papa y el nacer de un cometa

como en el año mil.

Y ve una nueva torre de Babel

desmoronarse en hoguera cruel

al estampido del cañón y del fusil.

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a quien el ronco ruido alegra

de los leones: Palas,

odiosa a las dulces mejillas,

puesto que das las flechas y las balas;

abominada seas

por los corrientes siglos y fugaces edades,

porque a pesar de todo, tus fuertes potestades

sucumbirán al trueno de oro de las ideas.

Amontonad bibliotecas,

poblad las pinacotecas

con los prodigios del pincel

y del buril y del cincel.

Hace la evocación de Homero, Vinci, Dante

para que vean el

espectáculo cruel

desde el principio hasta el fin:

¡La quijada del rumiante

en la mano de Caín

sobre la frente de Abel!...

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Se grita: ¡Guerra Santa!

acercando el puñal a la garganta,

o sacando la espada de la vaina;

y en el nombre de Dios,

casas de Dios en Reims y Lovaina

¡las derrumba el obús 42!...

¡No, Reyes! Que la guerra es infernal es cierto;

cierto que duerme un lobo

en el alma fatal del adanida;

mas también Jesucristo no está muerto.

¡Y contra el homicidio, el odio, el robo,

el es la Luz, el Camino y la Vida!...

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llegará de la Aurora.

Pasarán las visiones de Durero;

pasarán de Callot los lansquenetes,

los horrores de Goya, el visionario,