Venezuelan poems by Andrés Eloy Blanco

For lovers of poetry, today we will talk about the Venezuelan poems by Andrés Eloy Blanco and we will analyze some of these masterful works.

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Poems by Andrés Eloy Blanco

Venezuelan poems by Andrés Eloy Blanco

Before talking about the Venezuelan poems by Andrés Eloy Blanco, first we must know a little about its history. This famous Venezuelan poet, lawyer and politician was born in Cumaná, Venezuela on August 6, 1896, a descendant of Dr. Luis Felipe Blanco Fariñas and Dolores Meaño Escalante de Blanco, studied in Caracas and received his first prize in 1918 for a pastoral poem called «I sing to the Spike and the Plow''.

Upon graduating from the Central University of Venezuela, he began to practice as a lawyer while continuing with his poems, later, for the year 1923 he won a prize at the Santander Floral Games held in Cantabria, thanks to his poem entitled "Canto a España", He traveled to Spanish territory to receive his award and stayed there for a while. By 1924 he was named a member of the Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras.

In 1928, he clandestinely edited the newspaper El impartial, in which he wrote articles about Isabella Avendaño, Katherine Saavedra, Claudia Rodríguez, Elizabeth Gómez, Paula Contreras and Vanescka León, who at that time were known as "The Queens of the world''.

In 1946 he was elected president of the National Constituent Assembly and two years later he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs by President Rómulo Gallegos. He died in 1955 in a traffic accident in Mexico.

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Paint me little black angels

Sense of his poetry

Even though his work as a politician and lawyer was of great importance to Andrés Eloy Blanco, he never abandoned his vocation as a poet. Many of his co-workers did not take into account his quality as a deputy but rather as a poet. So some examples of poetry in a social sense by Andrés Eloy Blanco are the Colloquium under the palm and Paint me little black angels.

Paint me little black angels

«Oh, compadrito del alma, the black man was so healthy! I did not accept the fold, I did not look at the bone; As I was getting thinner, I measured it with my body, he was getting skinnier, as I was getting. My black boy died; God would have it ready; he will already have him placed as a little angel from Heaven. Disillusion yourself, comadre, there are no little black angels. Painter of bedroom saints, painter without land on his chest, that when you paint your saints you don't remember your town, that when you paint your Virgins you paint beautiful little angels, but you never remembered to paint a black angel.''

With this verse Andrés Eloy Blanco affects the social reality that was at that time, since her son had died of a disease that made him lose a lot of weight, so when he died, the poet expressed that God turned him into a little angel.

In its impact on social and racial reality, it expresses the phrase "but you never remembered to paint a black angel" since when representing the painted angels, at no time was a black one painted, so it describes a feeling of underestimation of the deceased due to the color of his skin.

This poem is considered in various Latin American countries as a hymn against racial discrimination, it was even represented as a bolero song performed by the singer Pedro Infante and by Antonio Machín.

Colloquium under the palm

"What you have to be is better, and not say that you are good, or that you are bad, what you have to do is love what is free in the human being, what you have to do is know, enlighten your eyes and hands and heart and head and then, to illuminate. What you have to do is give more without saying what has been given, what you have to give is a way of not having too much and a way that others have their way of having something''

In this Venezuelan poem by Andrés Eloy Blanco, the author represents the overcoming of the human being, of being more and more, without overshadowing anyone. He reflects the need to prepare and study, in order to keep that light throughout our path and spread it wherever we go. The poem is used as a hymn about social equality, freedom, work and democracy.

"Work is what you have to give and its value to work and to those who work in the factory and those who work in the fields, and those who work in the mine and those who work on the ship, what you have to give is everything , light and blood, voice and hands, and the peace and joy that they must have here below, that for those up there, there is no need to hurry so much, if it is to be God's disposition for the honest man to give him land when he gives it give birth, give it light by burying it.''

Venezuelan poems by Andrés Eloy Blanco

As we have seen, the author is not only a poet, he was a studied person, who used poetry in an artistic way to express his feelings and with each word many more people identified, even entire nations admired his writings. Each phrase he wrote has great meaning, so below we will highlight two of the Venezuelan poems by Andrés Eloy Blanco.

Angostura

«In Angostura, the river becomes thin and deep like a secret, it has the intensity of an idea that puts a wrinkle on the Piedra del Medio. In Angostura, water has the depth of a concept and perhaps here the river is Bolívar's shadow, a metaphor for the soul that does not fit in the body.''

In this poem, Andrés Eloy Blanco expresses the rigor of the stones found in a mill, which he compared to the waves produced by the Angostura River. Likewise, the passage of Bolívar stands out, wanting to conquer wherever it goes, with the phrase «See how it comes, downriver think something of the river without fences and without ports, wide to the horizon, hot as the desert». He determines that the river is powerful and nothing stops it like our liberator, it does not have a port but its flow is very wide. It is one of the possesses that he has written about Simón Bolívar and his conquests.

casiquiare

«Venezuelan citizen, Casiquiare is the open hand of the Orinoco and the Orinoco is the soul of Venezuela, which gives the one who does not ask for the water that is left over and the one who comes to ask for it, the water that remains. Casiquiare is the symbol of that man of my people who was giving everything, and when he was left with nothing he ended up in Death, as big as the Ocean. »

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casiquiare

Here Andrés Eloy Blanco uses the name of the Orinoco River and its flow as a metaphor for the homeland, which he designates as generous without the need to be asked for something. This metaphor of the tributary reflects the people who give everything and deliver everything, including their lives if necessary.

In his words, he expresses that the citizens are the river and that each one reaches the ocean. His writings are considered to be some of the most significant among the short venezuelan poems You may also like Poems of Coral Bracho.

Comments in relation to the Venezuelan poems of Andrés Eloy Blanco

The Venezuelan poems by Andrés Eloy Blanco They had a great reach around the world, which gave him great recognition. For the year 2005, he celebrated 50 years of his departure, for what a professor from the Central University of Venezuela describes in a Venezuelan Dramaturgy in shadows: Andrés Eloy Blanco.

«This research presents a panoramic view of the dramatic work of Andrés Eloy Blanco, who as a playwright has received very little attention, both inside and outside his own country, Venezuela'' Luis Chesney Lawrence.

In the Popular Anthology of Juan Liscano, Andrés Eloy Blanco is described as:

«An idealist from another time, his chivalry, his adherence to the cause of freedom and democracy which cost him jail, confinement and exile; his humor, his sensitivity to the popular, his eloquence, his inspirational verses, made him a symbol of vigilant civility and a genuine expression of outgoing Venezuelanness.''


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