Medardo angel silva biografia en ingles

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Unidad Educativa Bilingüe

 “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”

Paula Villao

Karen Burbano

2nd Bach “A”

A POET’S WORLD

Research guide: Ms. Carola Villafuerte.

2015 - 2016

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MEDARDO ÁNGEL SILVA:

A POET’S WORLD

PAULA VILLAO & KAREN BURBANO

2nd YEAR BACH “A”

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              EVALUATION CRITERIA

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Total:                                                                                      _______

Research Guide: Ms. Carola Villafuerte

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2015-2016

Medardo Angel Silva was an Ecuadorian poet belonging to the so-called beheaded Generation. Poet of pain, of impossible love, weariness of life, has made some of the most beautiful pages of the Ecuadorian literature. He was a teenager when he wrote the Book of Love, The Voices ineffable, stays, Romantic prints. He is also author of poetic prose and a small novel called Maria Jesus.

1. Introduction

1. Background
2. Thesis statement

1. Medardo Angel Silva’s Life

1. Human Profile
2. Childhood
3. Studies
4. Beheaded Generation

1. Works

1. Verses
2. Prose
3. Loose Poems

1. His tragic love

1. Rosa Amanda Villegas
2. His Death

1. Conclusion

1. Reference to the thesis statement
2. Closing remarks

Karen Burbano, Paula Villao

Research Guide: Ms. Carola Villafuerte

Unidad Educativa Bilingüe “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”

2nd Year Bach “A”

School Year: 2015-2016.

“Better a minute of life frank and sincere than a hundred years of hypocrisy.”

    Medardo Ángel Silva Rhodes [pic#1]  was born in Guayaquil on June 8, 1898, son of Mr. Enrique Silva Valdez and Ms. Mariana Rhodes Moreira, and died tragically on 10 June 1919 in the same city.

       Writer, poet, musician and composer, is considered the most representative of modernism in the Ecuadorian poetry, despite not being married, left as offspring to an only daughter of names Mercedes Cleofé Silva Carrión, who in turn had two, the Dr. Nancy Menéndez Silva, based from an early age in the United States and the jurist René Colón Quevedo Silva , the latter was honored by the M. I. “Municipalidad de Guayaquil” [pic#2], being delivered the first copy of the edition of works of MedardoÁngel Silva.

       Medardo [pic#3] is regular height, sad and penetrating eyes, delicate and aristocratic spirit was spontaneously generous, friendly, soft, exquisite, according to his friend Eduardo Castillo.                                                   Swarthy, melancholy smile "sunk hat, messy mane, the pockets" he toured the city on the edge of the morning after a night of Bohemian or an intense day of reading, which was very affection.

       It was son unique, and shortly after his father was born. His childhood was spent in a small house located in the Callejón Juan Pablo Arenas and Morro (currently Rumichaca), near the General Cemetery [pic#4]. Several historians claim that the passage of the funeral carriage by that place impacted in such a way the poet at that stage of his life, that death would become, as a result, one of his most recurrent elements of poetry.

       In 1904 he joined the Guayas philanthropic school [pic#5], located on 9 October and Morro.

       In addition to the piano lessons that were taught to him by Toribio Sierra [pic#6] , from very young turned to poetry, reciting poems of José Joaquin de Olmedo and nurturing of the verses of different foreign poets.

       He studied part of high school in the San Vicente (Vicente Rocafuerte today) [pic#7], where retired years later by a small discussion with a teacher. He then entered to work in a printing press. By that time, he already showed extraordinary literary talent, starting his poetry collection 'The tree of good and evil', which published in 1918.

       In 1913 began to publish her poems in newspapers El Telégrafo and El glove, which began to gain popularity in the literary circles of the time.

       At just 19 years old, he was appointed editor-in-Chief of the journalistic enterprise press Ecuatoriana, owned by Carlos Manuel Noboa Ledesma. As told by the writer Fernando Balseca, author of the book 'Filled all poetry, MedardoÁngel Silva and modernity' (2010), in an interview with the Telegraph, Silva is one of the first Ecuadorian authors making a profession of writing. This manifested it referring to, in addition to being a leading poet, was an excellent chronicler, who adopted the pseudonym of Jean D' Agrève.The influences on his poetry, moreover, were Rubén Dario modernism and the mysticism of Amado Nervo.

       Several months before his death his daughter María Mercedes Silva, fruit of their engagement with ÁngelaCarrión Vallejo was born.

       Medardo was part of generation decapitated which was a literary group, formed by four young Ecuadorian poets in the first decades of the 20th century.

       Two Guayaquil, MedardoÁngel Silva and Ernesto Noboa and Caamaño; and two Quito, Arturo Borja and Humberto Fierro, were the forerunners of modernism in the Ecuador. These four writers were greatly influenced by the modernist movement of Rubén Darius and of 19th-century French Symbolist poetry. All read in the original language to emblematic French bards as: Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, Samain, Rimbaud and Verlaine.

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