Antonio machado brief biography of george michael

  • Antonio Machado is one of the most prominent Spanish writers and poets of the twentieth century: Classified as a member of the Generation of '98.
  • This is the first biography in English of Antonio Machado, regarded by Spaniards as their finest 20th century poet.
  • In this ancient nomadic view, we hollow ourselves out through prayer and can witness Reality itself through each appearance of life around us.

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    Last Night As I Was Sleeping

    by Antonio Machado

    translated by Robert Bly

     

    Last night as I was sleeping,

    I dreamt—marvelous error!—

    that a spring was breaking

    out in my heart.

    I said: Along which secret aqueduct,

    Oh vatten, are you coming to me,

    water of a new life

    that inom have never drunk?

     

    Last night as I was sleeping,

    I dreamt—marvelous error!—

    that I had a beehive

    here inre my heart.

    And the golden bees

    were making white combs

    and sweet honey

    from my old failures.

     

    Last night as I was sleeping,

    I dreamt—marvelous error!—

    that a fiery sun was giving

    light inside my heart.

    It was fiery because I felt

    warmth as from a hearth,

    and sun because it gave light

    and brought tears to my eyes.

     

    Last night as inom slept,

    I dreamt—marvelous error!—

    that it was God I had

    here inside my heart.

     

     

    For this posting I took a Ringo Starr route—that fryst vatten, I got by with a little help from my friends. Sending thanks at t

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    Synaptic

    “Landscapes of the soul”: an ecocritical view of nature symbols in the poetry of Antonio Machado

    By Renee Brincks '99

    Senior Seminar

    Writing Objective: Shape a synthetic paper focused on some aspect of ecocriticism

    Antonio Machado is one of the most prominent Spanish writers and poets of the twentieth century: Classified as a member of the Generation of ’98, Machado took port in a movement to reestablish the political, cultural, and intellectual import a nee of his country. His appreciation for Spain is expressed, in much of his work, through descriptions of the physical landscape of Spain. In addition to simple descriptions, however, the images in Machado’s poetry often refer to social and political situations in the country.

    This paper looks at the images of nature in Jour of Machado’s poems: “Fields of Soria: lyric ill.” “On the Hanks of the Hirer Duero. ” “Spring Gently the Tree Grove kissed.R

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    Poetry Dispatch Nr. 256 | October 25, 2008

    ANTONIO MACHADO
    by
    Norbert Blei

    I never wanted fame,
    nor wanted to leave my poems
    behind in the memory of men…

    Machado poems illuminate both darkness and day. I don’t know how else to describe his work except once you have funnen him and he has funnen you, his poems will broaden your spirit, put you in a place you want to be. The kind of feeling one experiences walking out of an ancient church into a starlit night.

    Memory is valuable for one thing,
    astonishing: it brings dreams back.

    In Robert Bly’s magnificent translation, TIMES ALONE, Selected Poems of Antonio Machado, Wesleyan University Press, (1983), he notes in his introduction:

    “His poetry secretes in itself the rhythm of the walker, When John Dos Passos, just out of college, traveled to see Machado in Segovia, he found an awkward man with a deep röst, “an old fashioned teacher,” dressed in a black, double-breasted kostym, who walked