Witty Wedding Telegram

Platero Y YO

The human qualities. A term which may sound rhetoric, especially after reading a small book of poetry of the early twentieth century, in which love and dedication to a sweet ass the poet, told with sublime lyricism and intense grace, they do reflect the deep feelings, too often denied to non-human and considered unique expression of our species

Juan Ramon Jimenez was a English poet, was born in Palos de Moguer, in Andalusia, in 1881. Among the greatest exponents of pure poetry, literary movement that developed between the wars, Jiménez is one of those who believed in art poetic sensibility is not exploited by the political and historical circumstances. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956, wrote "Platero y yo" in 1914, creating what will be remembered as the work His most universally admired and translated.
The book is a dedication to a person gentle animal, a gentle donkey named Platero, whose gestures full of sweetness and dignity arouse in the reader feelings of tenderness but also of profound respect. The gentle ways and his purity of mind just got to do, in fact, with the bleak clichés that too often portray the ass like an animal symbol of mediocrity and lack of intelligence.

If you were coming, Platero, the Scoletta, you will learn the ABC, and you'd auctions. [...] Donna Domitilla [...] you would take, to be indulgent, a couple of hours on his knees in the canton of the courtyard of the plane, or I'll beat up on its legs with its long barrel dry, or you eat the quince of your snack, or you would On a sheet of paper under the tail, and you'd be hot and red ears are like the son of a factor when going to rain ... No. Platero, no. Come away with me. I'll teach you to know the flowers and stars. And no one will laugh at you as a child's large head, or will put you as if you were one of those they call donkeys, the cap, edged down over his eyes large indigo and vermilion as those of the boats of the river, with a par of ears twice the length of yours.

The comparison between the obtuse traditional symbolism and the grace with which Jimenez describes the animal makes the reader feel a vague sense of embarrassment: Platero does make the heart, denial of human dignity hurts not to appear awkward and ridiculous belief that human love and dedication to the next are processed only of our species, even to consider them "human qualities".

You, if you die before me, do not go, my Platero, the auctioneer on the cart, the immense lagoon, ravine or the road of the mountains, like other poor donkeys, like horses and dogs that have not who loves them. Experience quiet, Platero. I'll bury the foot of the large pine tree and leafy orchard della Pigna, so that you like. You'll be next to
happy and serene life. Children play and cuciranno little girl sitting next to you on their low chairs. Know the ways I suggest that loneliness. You will hear the girls sing when washing clothes ORGANGERIE, and the sound of joy and freshness noria will be for your eternal peace. And throughout the year finches, the siskins, the bucks will do for you, everlasting happiness in the large canopy, a tiny roof of your music between quiet sleep and the endless blue sky of eternal Moguer.

The awareness of the smallness of the human spirit is behind anthropocentrism grows as you browse the pages of this work, but Platero shows a dignity without pride. Only if the player pays due attention can in fact grasp the sad gap between the grace of this animal and the negative stereotype that condemns the donkey as a symbol of scarcity, because it leads to consideration Platero without ostentation, without reproach anything.

Platero is small, furry, soft, smooth outside so that he would do everything in cotton wool, no bones in it. Only the mirrors of jet eyes are hard like two beetles Crystal nero.Lo let loose, and leaves on the lawn, and stroking his nose with lukewarm, barely touching them, the flowers pink, blue and yellow ... I call softly: "Platero?" and comes to me with a cheerful trot that seems to laugh, I do not know that jingle in perfect ... Eat when you give him. He likes mandarin, muscatel grapes, all amber, purple figs, with their crystalline drop of honey ... It 's soft, full of quirks like a child, like a child ... But the inside is as strong and adust if it were made of stone.

The texts are full of images deployed in an atmosphere of sublime suggestiveness uncommon: the visceral and intimate relationship between the poet and the donkey lives in a Mediterranean setting made of fresh summer evenings, when the fragrance of the plants are growing more acute with the dark, the colors of the sky and a pleasant breeze seem to predispose to melancholy reflection and golden sunsets evoke sensations of sweet bitterness of the precariousness of the events to which all men and animals, we are doomed.
The emotion is the feeling that constantly involves the reader to the end, but finished the reading comes a little 'note of bitterness in the intimate distance between the lyricism of the events recounted and the prosaic condition that always flock to the animals.
The beautiful Andalusian regalataci postcard from "Platero y yo" does not even show us the true face of the bloody tradition of bullfighting, but the plaintive cry of the bulls feel it in anyway, along with the excitement for the unique luck of the donkey in our history, with the terrible knowledge that social trends speciesist contradiction to meander forever, not falling asleep again.