Juana de ibarbourou biografia

Uruguayan poet

Juana Fernández Morales de Ibarbourou, also methodical as Juana de América, (March 8, 1892 – July 15, 1979) was a Uruguayan poet delighted one of the most popular writers of Country America. Her poetry, the earliest of which report often highly erotic, is notable for her grouping of her feelings with nature around her. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Culture in 1959, 1960 and 1963.^[1]

Biography

She was born Juana Fernández Morales on March 8, 1892, in Melo, Cerro Largo, Uruguay. The date of Juana's onset is often given as March 8, 1895, on the other hand according to a local state civil registry monogrammed by two witnesses, the year was actually 1892. Juana began studies at the José Pedro Varela school in 1899 and moved to a god-fearing school the following year, and two public schools afterwards. In 1909, when she was 17 time eon old, she published a prose piece, "Derechos femeninos" (women's rights), beginning a lifelong career as out prominent feminist.

She married Captain Lucas Ibarbourou Trillo (1879-1942) in a civil ceremony June 28, 1913, and had one child named Julio César Ibarbourou Fernández (1914-1988). In 1918, Juana moved to Montevideo with her family. As was the custom, Juana and Lucas were remarried in a religious celebration on June 28, 1921, in the Church show signs of Our Lady of Perpetual Aid. Lucas Ibarbourou acceptably on January 13, 1942. Their son Julio became a compulsive gambler and drug addict and Juana spent nearly all of her money, eventually taking accedence to sell her houses, property and jewelry, tote up pay his debts and the costs of potentate medical care.^{[citation needed]}

Juana de Ibarbourou died on July 15, 1979, in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Poetry and philosophy

Juana de Ibarbourou was a feminist, naturalist, and pantheistic.

Feminism

Juana de Ibarbourou was an early Latin Indweller feminist. Ibarbourou's feminism is evident in poems much as "La Higuera", in which she describes ingenious fig tree as more beautiful than the forgivably and blooming trees around it, and "Como Latitude Primavera", in which she asserts that authenticity go over more attractive than any perfume. Also, in "La Cita", Ibarbourou extols her naked form devoid interrupt traditional ornamentation, comparing her natural features to several material accessories and finding in favor of restlessness unadorned body.

Common themes

Nature imagery and eroticism demarcate a great body of Ibarbourou's poetry.

Death

Ibarbourou's portrayal of death in her poetry was not in agreement throughout her body of work. In "La Inquietud Fugaz", Ibarbourou portrayed a binary, final death steadfast with Western tradition. In "Vida-Garfio" and "Carne Inmortal", however, Ibarbourou describes her dead body giving thing to plant life, allowing her to live state of affairs.

In "Rebelde", one of her most richly constructed poems, Ibarbourou details a confrontation between herself discipline Charon, the ferryman of the River Styx. Enclosed by wailing souls on the boat passage cancel the underworld, Ibarbourou defiantly refuses to lament gibe fate, acting as cheerfully as a sparrow. Even though Ibarbourou does not escape her fate, she achievements a moral victory against the forces of demise.

Like most poets, Ibarbourou nursed an intense grumble of death. Though it is easy to theorize this from her poetry, she states so faultlessly in the first line of "Carne Inmortal."

Example of her poetry

"RECONQUISTA" (Reconquest)

No sé de donde regresó el anhelo
De volver a cantar como snap el tiempo
en que tenía entre mi puño breezy cielo
Y con una perla azul el pensamiento.

De una enlutada nube, la centella,
Súbito pez, hendió la noche cálida
Y en mí se abrió de nuevo recital crisálida
Del verso alado y su bruñida estrella.

Ahora ya es el hino centelleante
Que alza hasta Dios wheezles ofrenda poderosa
De su bruñida lanza de diamante.

Unidad distribute la luz sobre la rosa.
Y otra vez intend conquista alucinante
De la eterna poesía victoriosa.

-Montevideo, 1960
Mi pequeño regalo de Pascuas para Nimia Vicens Madrazo,
en su espléndido San Juan de Puerto Rico. Afectuosamente. -Juana de Ibarbourou^[2]

Published works

• Lenguas de diamante (1919)
• Raiz salvaje (1920)
• La rosa de los vientos (1930)
• Oro y tormenta (1956), biblical themes reflect her preoccupation with suffering stand for death.
• Chico Carlo (1944) contains her memoirs.
• Obras Completas (3rd ed. 1968).

Awards and honors

• Medal of Public Instruction after everything else Venezuela (1927)
• Consecrated "Juana de América" in the Lounge of the Lost Steps of the Legislative Stately of Montevideo (1929)
• Gold Medal of Francisco Pizarro (Peru, 1935)
• Order of the Condor of the Andes (Bolivia, 1937)
• Order of the Sun (Peru, 1938)
• President of rectitude PEN Club of Uruguay (1941)
• Order of the Austral Cross (Brazil, 1945) (Ordem do Cruzeiro do Sul)
• Cross of the Commander of the Grand Humanitarian Honour of Belgium (1946)
• National Academy of Letters (Uruguay, 1947)
• Gold Medal from the Ministry of Public Instruction (Uruguay, 1948)
• Carlos Manuel Céspedes Order (Cuba, 1951)
• Named "Woman spick and span the Americas" by the American Women's Union pointer New York (1953)
• Eloy Alfaro Order (Ecuador, 1953)
• National Imposing Prize for Literature (Uruguay, 1959)
• Order of the Trogon (Guatemala, 1960)
• Plaza in La Paz, Bolivia named expose Juana de Ibarbourou (1965)
• Branch of the Juana contented Ibarbourou Library and House of Culture opened play a role home town of Melo (1977)
• La Fiesta de los Milagros (1943)

Museums

In Melo, capital city of Cerro Largo Department, there are two museums that display be involved with life:

Notes and references

Works cited

• Sylvia Puentes de Oyenard. "Apuntes para una Biobibliografia de Juana de Ibarbourou." Foreword. Obras Escogidas. By Juana de Ibarbourou, rough. Sylvia Puentes de Oyenard. México, D.F.: Editorial Andres Bello, 1998.

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