Diego Rivera
Michael Polanyi College
Tercer Semestre Allopoïesis – Soneto
Diciembre 11, 2013
Michael Polanyi College
Tercer Semestre Allopoïesis – Soneto
Diciembre 11, 2013
Despierto y con miedo la miraba
Despierto y con miedo la miraba,
y algo inalcanzable veía,
sin saber a donde dirigiría
la pasión que sin avisar llegaba.
Solemne y angustiado velaba,
por la mirada capaz que sería
la más dulce y atroz cacería,
hacia un nuevo mundo que formaba.
Responsable de lo sí sucedido,
caminó hacia la gran luz brillante,
sin ahora o nunca ser cedido
Era libre, y más que un instante.
Había todo y todo tenido,
no volvería a ser inquietante.
y algo inalcanzable veía,
sin saber a donde dirigiría
la pasión que sin avisar llegaba.
Solemne y angustiado velaba,
por la mirada capaz que sería
la más dulce y atroz cacería,
hacia un nuevo mundo que formaba.
Responsable de lo sí sucedido,
caminó hacia la gran luz brillante,
sin ahora o nunca ser cedido
Era libre, y más que un instante.
Había todo y todo tenido,
no volvería a ser inquietante.
Diego Rivera
Michael Polanyi College
Tercer Semestre Allopoïesis – Ensayo Soneto
Diciembre 11, 2013
Michael Polanyi College
Tercer Semestre Allopoïesis – Ensayo Soneto
Diciembre 11, 2013
Soneto IV
Garcilaso de la Vega
Un rato se levanta mi esperanza:
mas, cansada de haberse levantado,
torna a caer, que deja, mal mi grado,
libre el lugar a la desconfianza.
¿Quién sufrirá tan áspera mudanza
del bien al mal? ¡Oh corazón cansado!
Esfuerza en la miseria de tu estado;
que tras fortuna suele haber bonanza.
Yo mesmo emprenderé a fuerza de brazos
romper un monte, que otro no rompiera,
de mil inconvenientes muy espeso.
Muerte, prisión no pueden, ni embarazos,
quitarme de ir a veros, como quiera,
desnudo espirtu o hombre en carne y hueso.
mas, cansada de haberse levantado,
torna a caer, que deja, mal mi grado,
libre el lugar a la desconfianza.
¿Quién sufrirá tan áspera mudanza
del bien al mal? ¡Oh corazón cansado!
Esfuerza en la miseria de tu estado;
que tras fortuna suele haber bonanza.
Yo mesmo emprenderé a fuerza de brazos
romper un monte, que otro no rompiera,
de mil inconvenientes muy espeso.
Muerte, prisión no pueden, ni embarazos,
quitarme de ir a veros, como quiera,
desnudo espirtu o hombre en carne y hueso.
Essay about Sonnet IV of Garcilaso de la Vega
In love, we can find that it’s common to have competing emotional states. Love and melancholy come together and play around with the ones in love. It’s a state of constant change of being and not being, of happiness and sadness, of love and hate. It’s the feeling that you are so close to someone you love and at the same time you’re so far. It makes you mentally uncertain and weak of the heart. It also makes you have hope and a sense of everlasting happiness. Garcilaso is in love, but he knows that the journey he must take to reach his beloved one is tough and sometimes disappointing. He’s expressing this change of states of hope and despair. And not only that, but he’s making a claim that he would do what’s necessary to find her and be with her.
In the first quartet, Garcilaso is explaining how he feels when he’s not with her. He’s imagining her, feeling hopeful that they will be with together, but after some time and realizing that this would not be the case, he falls. He starts losing his hope and falls in a bad position, vulnerable to bad feelings, despair, and lack of trust. But what does he means by lack of trust? Towards the process of finding her or precisely towards her? Does she correspond his love or is she with someone else?
The second quartet can be summarized with the popular saying that after the storm comes the rainbow. This is what Garcilaso is transmitting here by asking rhetorically of who would suffer such changes from good to evil, from hope to despair. Of course, he is talking about himself, but it’s interesting to see how he’s projecting his pain and misery of not reaching what he aims for. But this quartet is not pessimistic, quite the contrary. At the end, he’s giving that ray of sunlight that would create the rainbow after the storm. He’s saying that he’ll stay on track to be with her and that after those bad moments, he will be rewarded with good things, referring to a happier and hopeful state.
Now, decided to be with his love, he states that he is willing to take any road as hard as it may be in order to reach her. This triplet is his promise to go through any obstacle and to overcome anything that gets between them. He even says that he is willing to go through situations that no other would dare to pass. This intense focus on the upcoming obstacles can represent many situations. One of those is that maybe Garcilaso is from other social class than the woman he loves, thus creating an inconvenience for being together. For Garcilaso, then, nothing matters except being with her and he is ready to fight any social limitation just to fulfill his dream of being happy.
Reaching the end of the sonnet, the second triplet is the culmination of his promise. He restates that not even death would be able to stop him from going to see his love. He’s saying that even if he loses everything in the way, it will be worthy just to be with her. His love for her transcends the material realm and if he is unable to fulfill his promise in this world, he would fulfill it in the spiritual one. Once again, we see the power that love has in people. It gives them certain power and determination to do what they need to do in order to be with that special person. Love is the motor that moves people and connects them. Love may be irrational at some times, but in this irrationality of doing whatever it takes to be with someone, one is truly alive.
In the first quartet, Garcilaso is explaining how he feels when he’s not with her. He’s imagining her, feeling hopeful that they will be with together, but after some time and realizing that this would not be the case, he falls. He starts losing his hope and falls in a bad position, vulnerable to bad feelings, despair, and lack of trust. But what does he means by lack of trust? Towards the process of finding her or precisely towards her? Does she correspond his love or is she with someone else?
The second quartet can be summarized with the popular saying that after the storm comes the rainbow. This is what Garcilaso is transmitting here by asking rhetorically of who would suffer such changes from good to evil, from hope to despair. Of course, he is talking about himself, but it’s interesting to see how he’s projecting his pain and misery of not reaching what he aims for. But this quartet is not pessimistic, quite the contrary. At the end, he’s giving that ray of sunlight that would create the rainbow after the storm. He’s saying that he’ll stay on track to be with her and that after those bad moments, he will be rewarded with good things, referring to a happier and hopeful state.
Now, decided to be with his love, he states that he is willing to take any road as hard as it may be in order to reach her. This triplet is his promise to go through any obstacle and to overcome anything that gets between them. He even says that he is willing to go through situations that no other would dare to pass. This intense focus on the upcoming obstacles can represent many situations. One of those is that maybe Garcilaso is from other social class than the woman he loves, thus creating an inconvenience for being together. For Garcilaso, then, nothing matters except being with her and he is ready to fight any social limitation just to fulfill his dream of being happy.
Reaching the end of the sonnet, the second triplet is the culmination of his promise. He restates that not even death would be able to stop him from going to see his love. He’s saying that even if he loses everything in the way, it will be worthy just to be with her. His love for her transcends the material realm and if he is unable to fulfill his promise in this world, he would fulfill it in the spiritual one. Once again, we see the power that love has in people. It gives them certain power and determination to do what they need to do in order to be with that special person. Love is the motor that moves people and connects them. Love may be irrational at some times, but in this irrationality of doing whatever it takes to be with someone, one is truly alive.