1. THE SENSE OF LANDSCAPE
1906-1917 Soria/Antonio Machado

2. FIRST SPANISH POET TO MAKE THE
LANDSCAPE A CENTRAL THEME
Machado is aware of the visual
qualities of Castilian Landscape.
Great ability to describe and to
interpret the raw beauty of the
arid Catilian landscape, the region
most connected to the legendary
conquest and most central to the
Spanish culture.
He had a keen sense and
appreciation of nature’s cycles and
rhythms.

3. HISTORY
His writing is not Machado believed that
aesthetic but historical. Spain has to look far
back into its past so that
Sense of history in the right values could
which the past is judge be readopted:
critically in terms of its democracy, social
relevance to the present. justice, and economic
growth.

4. INTRAHISTORIA
A history which is allowed to dominate the present
must be rejected in the interest of the future.
social criticism different from other writters.
The most significant part of nation’s life takes place
beneath the surface of historical events.
compassion and respect for humble people
lives.

5. PEOPLE’S LANDSCAPE
The collective soul of the people is always bound to
the soul of the landscape.
He implored his fellow citizens to nourish the patria
by laboring in the fields and workshops, by digging
in the mines, by replanting trees on deforested lands,
and by advancing the national culture.

6. LA PRENSA DE SORIA 2
MAYO DE 1908
“Sabemos que la patria es algo que se hace constatemente y
se conserva sólo por la cutura y el trabajo... Sabemos que
nos es patria el suelo que se pisa, sino el suelo que se labra;
que no basta vivir sobre él: que allí donde no existe huella
del esfuerzo humano no hay patria, ni siquiera región, sino
una tierra estéril, que tanto puede ser nuestra como de los
buitres o de las águilas que sobre ella se ciernen”

7. GENERATION 98 DISCOVERED AND
INVENTED CASTILIAN LANDSCAPE
Machado shares with
Unamuno a sense of
central importance of
Castile in the moulding
of Spanish traditions
and both are haunted by
a landscape whose
present poverty
overshadowed by the
memory of past

8. DECLINE
The plane landscape
unveils the death of
Spain’s historical
decline

9. RELATIONSHIP PAST-PRESENT
Machado shares with Unamuno a sense of central
importance of Castile in the moulding of Spanish
traditions and both are haunted by a landscape
whose present poverty overshadowed by the
memory of past greatness.

10. A ORILLAS DEL DUERO
¡Oh, tierra triste y noble,
la de los altos llanos y
yermos y roquedas;
decrépitas ciudades,
caminos sin mesones,
y atónitos palurdos sin
danzas ni canciones
que aún van,
abandonando el
mortecino hogar.

11. PÁRAMO
High arid or semiarid
tablelands. Even
alongside the Duero the
lowest elevation is
nearly 900 metres above

12. LA LAGUNA NEGRA
Los Picos de Urbión
2,200 metres above sea
level.