Practice question · True or false
Darío’s modernismo was the first literary movement to travel from Latin America to Spain rather than in the other direction.
Hints
- Consider the usual direction of literary influence in Spanish before 1888.
- Darío reversed it.
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True
Why
True, and it is why modernismo matters beyond its poetics. Influence had run from the peninsula outward for four centuries; Darío reversed the flow, and Spanish poetry in Spain was reshaped by a Nicaraguan.
Practise Poetic Traditions III: Romanticism to Free Verse
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More questions on Poetic Traditions III: Romanticism to Free Verse
- Whitman’s lines have no fixed syllable or stress count. What organises them instead?
- At roughly what age did Rimbaud stop writing altogether?
- Free verse is verse written without any organising principle.
- Keats compresses dense sensory detail into strict pentameter, whilst Whitman structures his poems through…
- Sort each poet by whether they LOOSEN the metrical count or EXPAND the metrical repertoire.
- Arrange these publications in chronological order.
- Which are true of iambic pentameter?