Soria fria soria pura antonio machado biography

          Machado was at first disenchanted with Soria, then a rough-hewn rural town of 7, Born in Seville and raised in Madrid, he had by this time....

          To the extent that "Soria fria, Soria pura" is "aestheticist," it contains still another act of recollection, this time Machado's own recollec- tion of the.

        1. To the extent that "Soria fria, Soria pura" is "aestheticist," it contains still another act of recollection, this time Machado's own recollec- tion of the.
        2. This study focuses on the poetic presentation of the Sorian landscapes in Campos de Castilla.
        3. Machado was at first disenchanted with Soria, then a rough-hewn rural town of 7, Born in Seville and raised in Madrid, he had by this time.
        4. Machado made his living as a high school French teacher and in took his first post in the town of Soria.
        5. “Soria” by Antonio Machado, Spanish poet, From “Campos de Castilla,” Antonio Machado, Biblioteca Anaya, Edición de José Luis Cano.

          6. “Soria” by Antonio Machado, Spanish poet, 1875-1939
          From “Campos de Castilla,” Antonio Machado, Biblioteca Anaya, Edición de José Luis Cano, 1964.

          (English translation by James Mansfield Nichols)

          The shield of Soria has the following heraldic description: [3]
          In a field of gules (red), a castle, of argent, crenellated with three battlements, lined up and marbled with sabre, rinsed with azure (blue) and a king’s bust crowned with gold and with its attributes coming out of his homage, in its colour; silver embroidery loaded with the following legend: “Soria Pura Cabeza de Estremadura”, written in saber letters. (Wikipedia)

          The poem “Soria” is a sequence of exclamations.

          (I reproduce the punctuation of my printed text.) The speaker evokes the somber beauty on a cold, moonlit night of an ancient provincial city fallen from its former glory. The details he describes aren’t beautiful in themselves — indeed, they depict decrepitude, decay and impoveris