Stylistic resources in the “Coplas de Juan Descalzo” by Nicolás Guillén
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Abstract. This work carries out a literary analysis of the “Coplas de Juan Descalzo” written and published by the national poet of Cuba, Nicolás Guillén Batista (1902-1989), better known as Nicolás Guillén. He is considered by literary critics and readers to be the greatest Cuban poet of all time. This poem belongs to the Political Satire section of his vast and fruitful literary production that has as a backdrop, the different historical and sociocultural contexts of the Cuban nation before the triumph of the socialist revolution of 1959. Of the results obtained from this study, the following stand out: uses and management of the stylistic resources carried out by the Camagüey bard in this poetic composition where the use of this type of strophic form from the Spanish popular tradition predominates.
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