Latin American poetry is poetry written by poets born in Latin America.
Lyric poetry is popular in Latin America. Some lines in lyric poems rhyme. Sometimes lyric poems do not rhyme. Rubén Darío, César Vallejo, Ernesto Cardenal, Gabriela Mistral, and Pablo Neruda wrote lyric poems.
Prose poetry is also popular in Latin America. Prose poems are written in sentences and paragraphs. (The lines do not rhyme.) Jorge Luis Borges (Everything and Nothing), Pablo Neruda (Passions and Impressions), Octavio Paz (Eagle or Sun?), Alejandra Pizarnik (Sex/Night), and Giannina Braschi (Empire of Dreams) wrote prose poetry.
Latin American poets also have a strong tradition of epic poetry.[1] National themes, landscapes, and local traditions appear in epic poems. José Hernández wrote the famous epic poem Martín Fierro about cowboy culture in Argentina.[1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Latin American literature - The 19th century". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved October 19, 2020.