Simple Verses
''Simple Verses'' (Spanish: ''Versos sencillos'') is a poetry collection by Cuban writer and Independence of Cuba, independence hero José Martí. Published in October 1891, it was the last of Martí's works to be printed before his death in 1895. Originally written in Spanish language, Spanish, it has been translated into over ten languages. Among the poems of the collection are ''Yo soy un hombre sincero'' (I), ''Si ves un monte de espumas'' (V), and ''Cultivo una rosa blanca'' (XXXIX). Verses pruned from various poems were adapted into the folk song ''Guantanamera'', which is the most popular patriotic song of Cuba and was popularized in the US in the 1960s during the American folk music revival. Overview The bulk of the book was written in 1890 while Martí was convalescing in a small town called Haines Falls in the Catskill Mountains. The manuscript was first read in public in December of that year, at the home of Carmen Miyares in New York City; it was published ten months lat ...
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Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the '' Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns (the S ...
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