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The Pine of Formentor ( ca, Lo Pi de Formentor, es, El pino de Formentor) is one of the most well-known and celebrated poems by Miquel Costa i Llobera. Technically, it is considered as the culmination of the
The poem has been sung, among others, by Spanish singer
Romantic
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poetry in the Catalan language.
History
Miquel Costa i Llobera wrote the poem in Catalan language in 1875, during his first period of production. To compose it, he took inspiration from the majestic landscapes and visions of the pine trees rooted in the cliffs of the Formentor peninsula onMallorca
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island. Costa i Llobera frequented those sites from an early age. The landscape of Formentor portrayed by the poet is real, whilst also evolving into a literary category, becoming a symbol of the Mediterranean.
Years later, the poet published a version of the poem in Spanish.
Structure of the poem
The poem is written entirely in alexandrine verses (6+6 syllables), with caesurae in the middle. It is composed of quintainstanzas
In poetry, a stanza (; from Italian ''stanza'' , "room") is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes, but they are not required to have eithe ...
, with an ABAAB rhyme
A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually, the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of perfect rhyming is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic ...
. The last line of each quintain contains only 6 syllables.
Its beginning is often quoted in Catalan:
Whilst Costa i Llobera himself would publish a translation years later, in Spanish. The same first stanza reads:
Legacy
The poem has been sung, among others, by Spanish singer Maria del Mar Bonet
Maria del Mar Bonet i Verdaguer (Balearic Catalan: ; born 1947 in Palma, Majorca) is a Spanish singer from the island of Majorca.
Early life and career
Bonet studied ceramics in the school of arts, but eventually decided to dedicate herself to ...
.
Artists such as Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà ( , , ; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona i ...
and Hermen Anglada Camarasa
Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa (1871–1959), known in Catalan as Hermenegild (or Hermen) Anglada Camarasa, was a Catalan and Balearic Spanish painter.
Life and career
Born in Barcelona, he studied there at the Llotja School. His early work had ...
used it as inspiration for their paintings.
See also
* Miquel Costa i Llobera * FormentorReferences
{{reflistFurther reading
* Bernat Cifre Forteza. "Costa i Llobera i el món clàssic (1854-1922)," Lleonard Muntaner Editor, 2005. * Bartolomé Torres Gost. "Miguel Costa y Llobera. 1854 - 1922. Itinerario Espiritual De Un Poeta," Editorial Balmes, Barcelona, 1971. * Miquel Costa i Llobera, Frank Z. Llobera. "The Pine of Formentor (Annotated)," English Edition, 2023. 1875 poems Catalan-language works