in the Poetry of Silver Age

Poetry and Myth: Receptíon 01 Don Quíxote In the Poetry 01 {he Sí/ver Age
him dream of a non material world because the natural is not "as it
should be". Por this reason Unamuno feels fraternal in his
disillusion with the author of Don Quixote" 6.
Spain, Castile, Gredos and Don Quixote will be the living
symbols of his pain for this country. As Ana Suárez Miramón
points out, "in spite of his constant references to Spain and his
grief for Spain ("Spain grieves me as if it were a part of me and me
of Her"), the theme dissolves in other myths that Spanish
philosophy enshrines, especially Don Quixote and Segismundo,
and with these and with the representation of Castile, the symbol of
Spain, this theme acquires a spiritual content that after his exile
assumes religious proportions" 7 (LXXXVII):
No consigo soñar, vil pesadilla
(1 cannot sleep, horrible nightmares)
--dicen la realidad-, me mata el sueño;
(They speak the truth, sleep kills me)
mi Dios, el de mi España, fruncen el ceño;
(My God, the God of Spain, they furrow my brow)
se nubla el sol que sobre Gredos brilla
(The sun that shines over the Gredos goes dark).
¡Y fue mi historia sueño! ¡Ancha es Castilla!
(And my history was a dream, Great is Castile!)
Soñé, cual Don Quijote, al pie del leño
(1 dreamt of Don Quixote, at the foot of the flowering oak tree)
por las noches a mi alma en maravilla.
(on nights with my soul marveling)
6 A. Suárez Marimón, 1987, voL II, p. 353.
7 A. Suárez Marimón, 1987, vol. II, p.21.
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