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Jose Marti was born in
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Havana, Cuba
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Jose worked...
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on underground newspapers
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At age 16 Marti was arrested for....
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subversion and sentenced to six year's in a chain gang
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Marti after one year in the chain gang was exiled to...
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Spain
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Marti visited Cuba... times
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3
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Marti visited cuba under a ....
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fake name
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Marti was a ... in New York
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Spanish teacher at central high
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Marti married a women whose daughter became the...
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protagonist of several of his versos sencillos
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In 1894 Marti founded...
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Cuban Revolutionary Party
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Marti died of
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as a victim of Spanish rifles on May 19, 1895
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Marti plays with colors and sounds, giving life to harmonic, beautiful, and ...
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visionary poetry
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Guantanamera is based off.
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Marti's poem, "Versos Sencillos"
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yo soy un hombre sincero
de donde crece la palma, y antes de morime quiero echar mis versos del alma |
Jose Marti from Cuba
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todo es hermoso y constante
todo es musica y razon y todo, como el diamante Antes que luz es carbon |
Jose Marti from Cuba
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Callo, y entiendo y me quito
la pompa del rimador: Cuelgo de un arbol marchito Mi mucecta de doctor |
Jose Marti from Cuba
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Becquer was born into a family of...
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artists
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Becquer suffered from...
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tuberculosis
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Becquer was a....,.... and probably a ....
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poet, painter, musician
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How many poem are in Rimas
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76
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What is the central theme of most of Becquer's poems
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Love
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Some rhymes are about an....
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unreal world
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Becquer sprung....poetry
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modern or contemorary
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Alfonisa was born in....
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Argentina
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Alfonsina's father was a/an...
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alcoholic
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At age... Storni contributed to the household and began...
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11, writing
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At age... Alfonsina toured Argentina for a year
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12
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Why did Alfonsina flee to Buenos Aires
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She had a child with a married educated newspaper journalist; to save his reputation
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Alfonsina urged the government to grant women...
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the right to vote
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Alfonsina wrote essays on
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women's rights
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Alfonsina's poetry has distinct....themes
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feminist
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In 1935 Alfonsina discovered...
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she developed breast cancer
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How did Alfonsina die?
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She commited sucide by walking into the ocean and drowning
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Asi diciendo te broto un la grima
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Alfonsina
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Tu me dijiste y me coyoen la boca
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Alfonsina
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What is the teme of Peso Ancestral
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The roles of women and their burdens that are involved in different genders
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Guillen was a .... poet
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Afro-cuban
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His father introduced him to....
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the afro-cuban son when he was very young
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In 1930 his poetry was inspiried by the popular son...
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a popular Afro-cuban musical form
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He wrote his first poem at age...
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14
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Gullen was as much a.... as a....
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political activist, poet
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Guillen was revolutionary is advocating a construction of a new scoety that exposed...
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social discriminations, predjudicies and poverty
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What is jitanjafora and who created it
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invented words used for their musical or rhythmic effect-- Guillen
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He met... from the Broncs and influenced his poetry
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Langstin
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What is the central theme of Guillen's work?
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the beauty of Africa-ness
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Que de barcos que de barcos!
que de negros, que de negros! |
Guillen
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Piedra de llanto y de sangre
vanas y ojos entreabiertos |
Guillen
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Don Federico me grit
y Taita Facundo calla los dos en la noche suenan y andan, andan yo los junto |
Guillen
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Guillen is....at the end of the poem
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optomistic
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Overall theme of Guillen
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the things that make us human are what were share
different cultures should be enemies |
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Tu le das con el hacha y se muere
no le des con el pie que te muerde |
Guillen
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