Adolfo Bécquer rhymes and legends
The collections of works by Adolfo Bécquer, known as rhymes and legends were written in 1871. In the era of 1800’s post -romanticism and modernism dominated in literature. However, Bécquer related to modernism and emphasized the connection between the poem and the poet. The style of poetry at this time was simple, liric, and pointed out the themes of love and loneliness. During these times society had a utilitarian thought, this happened because there were conflicts between social classes given the money causing poetry to express a need for social changes. For this reason, many of Becquer’s rhymes reflect the issues of love, loneliness, contempt, problems and social changes. Liii and XVI rhymes express the issues of love, loneliness, contempt, and happiness. Knowing the background of the time in which the poems were created and as Bécquer is related and identified, the reader can interpret the two rhymes in a more informed way.
The Liii rhyme is a man who is finishing his interpersonal relationship with a woman. After the poem the man tries to comfort the woman letting her know that she will have better relationships in the future with a tone of melancholy voice. Then emphasize that they are memories that both parties will never be forgotten. At the end of this poem the man lets the woman know that nobody will love her like him. The main theme of this rhyme is love. Moreover, how particular and ephemeral love is because swallows appear and then leave. Like his experience with a swallow is not the same as his experience with a Mother. On the other hand, Rima XVI is about a phase of Bécquer’s love life expressed after the fantastic. This poem is a man in love describing the situation he faces and he relates to the wind, rumors, and sighs so that she felt that he is with her. He tells him that the wind is his sigh and that if he listens. The main theme of this poem is love and happiness this is seen when Bécquer uses rumors, encouragement, and the wind to join to be with the love of his life and remind him of happy moments between them.
The Liii rhyme contains six stanzas, and for each stanza there are four verses. Three of the four verses are endecasyllables in major art, while a verse of four is heptasyllable in minor art and is at the end of each stanza. On the other hand, Rima XVI, contains three stanzas and for each stanza there are six verses. The odd verses are endecasyllables in major art while the even verses are pentasyllables in minor art. Both poems contain an assonant rhyme in the even verses because phonetic identity occurs in vowels. The Liii rhyme is a silva given that the poem contains endecasyllable and heptasyllable verses that alternate. In addition, the structure both contain row and literary figures. For example, Rima XVI contains anaphora in the beginning of each stanza when the word "yes" is mentioned, in the words "you think" in verses 3 and 9, and "you know" in verses 5.11, and17. As it contains epiphora at the end of each stanza seen in the word "I" and personification when it says "if your heart is made Medaso in high night". Additionally, it contains an epithet in verse 5 when it places an unnecessary adjective in the phrase "green leaves". On the contrary in the rhyme
Liii, it contains epithet when it says “the dark swallows’ and ‘the dense honeys’, hyperbaton when it says’ the dark swallows will return’, symile when he mentions’ like tears of the day ‘, personification when he says’ those that the flight restrained your beauty’, and parallelism when he mentions’ they will return …They will return ’.
The analysis of the rhymes LIII and XVI can vary depending on the perspective and personal experiences of each reader. The Liii rhyme is actually a man who is finishing his interpersonal relationship with a woman. After the poem the man tries to comfort the woman letting her know that she will have better relationships in the future with a tone of melancholy voice. Then emphasize that they are memories that both parties will never be forgotten. At the end of this poem the man lets the woman know that nobody will love her like him.
But on the other hand it can be interpreted as if it were from a best friend to another saying goodbye to an unforgivable problem. It can be seen as if a friend is telling another that many other friends will come to replace him, but none will be like him, this is seen when he says "the tuxedos maker will return". It can also be interpreted that the best friend tells another that others will come, but none will have the love or love that he had, the example of this is seen when he says “as I have loved you…;Unreach, like that … they won’t love you!". Like the rhyme Liii and Rima XVI can be interpreted in different ways.
For example, Rima XVI is about a phase of Bécquer’s love life expressed after the fantastic. This poem is a man in love describing the situation he faces and he relates to the wind, rumors, and sighs so that she felt that he is with her. This can be interpreted as if it were a letter made of a mother who died from cancer to her son letting her know that, after the wind, the sigh, and the rumors will be with the.
For all the above, Becquer’s rhymes are made to be interpreted in different ways depending on the reader’s perspective.
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