What's Love Got to do with It? A Short Transatlantic Tour from Modernismo in Latin America to Victorian England through Poetry

Date of Award

2008

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Portugal, Jose Alberto

Keywords

Poetry, Love, Agustini, Delmira, de Ibarourou, Juana, Rossetti, Christina, Vitorian England, Modernismo, Spanish Translation

Area of Concentration

Humanities

Abstract

In this thesis I examine the lives and work of three poets, two of them associated with Modernismo and the third one to the English Victorian period. The thesis is divided into two main chapters, which focus on the two periods separately. Each chapter begins with an introduction to the period in which the poet(s) lived, followed by a short biographical section; the third section of the chapters is devoted to the analysis of the poems I have selected for each of them. For the two Latin American poets, Delmira Agustini and Juana de Ibarbourou, I work with my translations of their poems (from Spanish to English). The original poems in Spanish are provided in the appendix. The theme of love acts as the common thread across the span from Christina Rossetti�s Victorian poems to the works of the two Uruguayan modernistas. I read the variety of love-forms represented in these poems as a continuous dialogue and negotiation with the possibilities of and the limitations to self-expression in the time and place of the three authors.

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