This week, I found Roger Canals article on María Lionza particularly interesting. I was initially drawn to it because of its complexities and rituals. Canals begins his article with an introduction to the cult. I quite liked how he outlined the correct terms for the spirits. It also reminded me of Alison Spedding’s article “TheContinue reading “Week 8: Religion”
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This week we reviewed/ revisited the idea that Latin America is, as Alexander Dawson describes it, as being Gilded with modernity. Modernity affects only parts of Latin America and ignores others. The Poet Ruben Dario This week I wanted to focus on the poem by Ruben Dario, called “To Rosevelt”. I found this poem to […]
This week we reviewed/ revisited the idea that Latin America is, as Alexander Dawson describes it, as being Gilded with modernity. Modernity affects only parts of Latin America and ignores others. The Poet Ruben Dario This week I wanted to focus on the poem by Ruben Dario, called “To Rosevelt”. I found this poem to […]
For this weeks discussion I would like to discuss teh poem, To Roosevelt since I find it so intriguing. First of all I love all the insightful historical references within this poem. There were many a times where I had to google what the poem was referencing to. I had to look up whoContinue reading “Week 8: Signs of Crisis in the Gilded Age”
This week offered a necessary introduction to historical figures and intellects of the twentieth century. At the beginning of the 20th century, it would seem that for some nations, the peasants, aboriginals, and workers charged the government’s and administrations with negligence of a supposed liberated society by generation revolutions, strikes, and intellectual thought on the […]
When discussing these weeks reading the one that stood out to me the most was The Plan de Ayala. The…
This week, I found Rúben Darío’s poem “To Roosevelt” to be especially significant in regards to relations between Latin America and the United States. One thing I should point out about myself is that I’m pretty terrible at analysing poetry, so I apologise in advance 🙂 As Dawson puts it, “he [Darío] used this poemContinue reading “Week 8: Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age”
In the lecture video for this week, “ Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age” professor John talked about the…
For this blog post I want to talk about Ruben Darío’s, “To Roosevelt”. I loved this poem! In a Spanish class I took last semester, we learned a little bit about Darío when we studied modernism. We learned that he was the founder of modernism, and we also studied in detail one of his poems […]
