Este documento presenta información sobre el poema "La cautiva" de Esteban Echeverría. Incluye análisis de la forma, estructura y temas del poema, así como biografía breve del pintor Juan Mauricio Rugendas, cuyas obras ilustran el secuestro de mujeres durante las guerras entre los federales y unitarios en la Argentina del siglo XIX. También presenta otras obras de arte que retratan este tema.
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FORMA Y ESTRUCTURA
▸Era la tarde, y la hora
en que el sol la cresta dora
de los Andes. El Desierto
inconmensurable, abierto,
y misterioso a sus pies
se extiende; triste el semblante,
solitario y taciturno
como el mar, cuando un instante
al crepúsculo nocturno,
pone rienda a su altivez.
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FORMA Y ESTRUCTURA
▸Era la tarde, y la hora A octasílabos
en que el sol la cresta dora A
de los Andes. El Desierto B
inconmensurable, abierto, B
y misterioso a sus pies C
se extiende; triste el semblante, D
solitario y taciturno E
como el mar, cuando un instante D
al crepúsculo nocturno, E
pone rienda a su altivez. C
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ESQUEMA DE LA RIMA
▸Ya el sol su nítida frente
reclinaba en occidente,
derramando por la esfera
de su rubia cabellera
el desmayado fulgor.
Sereno y diáfano el cielo,
sobre la gala verdosa
de la llanura, azul velo
esparcía, misteriosa
sombra dando a su color
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PERSONIFICACIÓN
▸Ya el sol su nítida frente
reclinaba en occidente,
derramando por la esfera
de su rubia cabellera
el desmayado fulgor.
Sereno y diáfano el cielo,
sobre la gala verdosa
de la llanura, azul velo
esparcía, misteriosa
sombra dando a su color
34. Juan Manuel Blanes, La cautiva, 1880
(Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat)
Fuente: Buenos Aires Ciudad (Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires)
1. In 1806, during the Napoleonic Wars, Buenos Aires was occupied by the British. Although the colonial militia led by Jacques de Liniers (1753-1810) restored Spanish rule, Spain's ties with its American colonies were weakened in the tumultuous period, especially after Napoleon's deposition of Ferdinand VII.
2. On May 25, 1810, a revolt occurred in Buenos Aires, and a junta was appointed to rule in the name of the deposed king.
A full independence movement led by Manuel BELGRANO soon gathered force, however; the royalists were defeated, and a proclamation of independence was signed at Tucuman on July 9, 1816. Independence was followed by almost continuous civil war.
3. Conflict developed between the centralists (or unitarians), who favored a strongly centralized government at Buenos Aires, and the federalists, who, with the support of gaucho troops, supported provincial autonomy. The federalist Juan Manuel de ROSAS, governor of Buenos Aires, consolidated his power to rule as virtual dictator of the country from 1835 to 1852 and managed to preserve a national unity.
4. Following his overthrow, the present constitution was adopted (1853), but it was not until 1862 that Buenos Aires became a fully integrated province in the federal structure provided for by the constitution.
Unitarios, Federalistas
¬ Unitarios: Unir al país. Nacionalizar Buenos Aires. Anular las tarifas inter provinciales.
¬ Federalistas: Unir al país. Nacionalizar Buenos Aires. Repartir el dinero de las tarifas del puerto de Buenos Aires a todas la provincias.
¬ Federalistas II: No unir al país. Mantener las ganancias de las tarifas de las provincias y la provincia y el puerto de Buenos Aires.
Rosas, Juan Manuel de
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Juan Manuel de Rosas, b. Mar. 30, 1793, d. Mar. 14, 1877, twice governor of Buenos Aires (1829-32 and 1835-52), ruled Argentina as virtual dictator during his second term of office. A ruthless tyrant, he is nevertheless credited with unifying the country when it was seriously threatened with disintegration.
Born to a wealthy family that owned vast cattle ranches on the Argentine coast, the young Rosas led the life of a gaucho (cowboy) until he was appointed (1820) head of the provincial army. After the conservative provincial government of Manuel Dorrego was overthrown (1828), Rosas emerged as the advocate for federalism, the autonomy of the constituent states of the Argentine federation. With his gaucho militia, he fought the insurgent centralist unitarians. He began to consolidate his power in 1835. Under his guidance, the province of Buenos Aires came to dominate even more than before the political and economic affairs of the inland provinces. The Mazorca--a personal police organization answerable only to Rosas--dealt with opponents of his dictatorship. Rosas's tenure was sustained not only by his considerable manipulative talents but also by an expanding economy. Markets for Argentine goods, particularly in Great Britain, created prosperity; immigration contributed to agricultural and industrial expansion; the public debt was reduced. Disputes with Britain and France, however, led to at least two blockades of Buenos Aires. Also, the commercial monopoly enjoyed by Buenos Aires caused the interior provinces to revolt in 1852. Rosas was defeated by Gen. Justo Jose de URQUIZA at Monte Caseros and went into permanent exile in Great Britain.
Bibliography: Ross, S. R., and McGann, T. F., eds., BuenosAires: Four Hundred Years (1982).
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino
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One of Argentina's leading journalists, educators, and politicians, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, b. Feb. 14, 1811, d. Sept. 11, 1888, was the first civilian to become president of a united Argentina. He was first employed as a country schoolteacher, but because of his opposition to dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, he was exiled (1840) to Chile. There he wrote and edited for various newspapers, agitated against Rosas, and studied public education. His book Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants (1845; Eng. trans., 1961) was an attack on Rosas and an analysis of the need to "civilize" the New World. Written from Sarmiento's Europeanized liberal perspective, it is a classic of Spanish-American literature. In 1852, Sarmiento returned to Argentina to help Justo Jose de URQUIZA depose Rosas. Elected president in 1868, Sarmiento revamped the national school system, ended the War of the Triple Alliance (1865-70) against Paraguay, and contributed to the stabilization of his nation's liberal institutions.
Bibliography: Bunkley, Allison W., Life of Sarmiento (1952;repr. 1977); Katre, W. H., Domingo F., Sarmiento (1985).