Ignacia de Lara

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · Category: Literature · Subcategory: Literary street map

The Canarian poet Ignacia de Lara (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1880-1940) adapts the themes typical of Romanticism and harmonises them with the versification of Modernism. In this way, she embraces the literary currents prevailing in her time, harmonised with certain Romantic influences. Thus, we observe traces of Romanticism in that kind of eclectic stance in which she tries to reconcile outward serenity with an internal torment, always contained, present in her poems, until she creates a very personal style. Night, memories, dreams, melancholy and mainly heartbreak give rise to verses full of sadness where, as a form of relief, she expresses a painful exalted feeling that does not reach the alienation so typical of the Romantic imprint. [...] The author reveals a spirituality that directly connects with her religious education. Thus, sometimes her poems leave a well of resignation, and other times, of calm desolation. (Source: Hernández Quintana, Blanca. Lunas de la voz ausente: antología de escritoras canarias de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Tegueste: Baile del Sol, 2003).

Ignacia de Lara published two books of poetry, Para el perdón y para el olvido and Entre paisanos . In prose she published Tiré de un recuerdo and Como las cerezas, La media onza y Lucecita en la noche.

"Have you never thought,

looking into space

on serene summer nights

bright and beautiful,

that they are very close, that they seem together,

holding hands, the stars?

Well listen, I tell you very softly

that the same happens in our souls!

That they seem close and between both

there are journeys of infinity!"

(Have you never thought?)

28.114184, -15.436326