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Nothing sweeter than love

De Luis Alberto de Cuenca (Madrid, 1950) and poems quoted here and here in this blog . I read his latest book, Life in flames (Madrid: Visor, 2006).

That includes the following poem:
ALICIA

Forty degrees in the shade.
An empty road on the horizon is lost. A Chevrolet
provided ready for scrapping.
A rock pool where bathing.
A glass of cold beer in a McDonald's.
Two or three truck drivers with whom to converse.
Two or three waitresses at that hesitation.
A Bible salesman to be discussed.
An amazing sunset.
All this in exchange for a rainy afternoon with Alicia
in a shed.

The rhetorical technique used is that we know as priamel : first (vv. 1-9), lists a number of elements supposedly joyful to the subject; then establishes the superiority of love over those other pleasures of life (vv. 10-11).

technique with the same erotic involvement is already in the Greek epigrammatic Asclepiades of Samos, in the third century BC, which was considered the inventor of the Alexandrian erotic epigram ( Anthology 5169):

Ἡδὺ θέρους διψῶντι χιὼν ποτόν, ἡδὺ δὲ ναύταις
ἐκ χειμῶνος ἰδεῖν eiarinon Stέfanon;
idion d, when the krύpsῃ mίa filέontas
greatcoat and ainitai Kύpris In 'amfotέron.

Dulce es para el sediento el agua fresca en el estío,
dulce para los marinos contemplar tras el invierno la primaveral Corona Boreal.
Pero más dulce es that a single blanket covering
two lovers who worship Aphrodite.

is not implausible to suppose that Luis Alberto de Cuenca, fine Hellenistic, was inspired by the little poem of Asclepiades for its own membership.

Indeed, it is highly likely to Jaime Gil de Viedma read and imitate the Asclepiades epigram. We know that Biedermann, although he knew the Greek Anthology read the in French translation in the Classics Garnier. The poem that is reminiscent Gil de Viedma clear the Hellenistic epigram is 'Anniversary Waltz', belonging to Book Travel Companions (Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1959), and launches:

ANNIVERSARY WALTZ

Nothing is as sweet as a
room for two, when we do not want too,
outside the city in a quiet hotel, and couples
doubtful and a child node, if

is not this slight feeling of unreality
.
something like summer in my parents' house, long ago, as travel by train
night.

[...] Interestingly, in "Anniversary Song", the book Morals (1966), quoted the poet himself, again evoking Asclepiades epigram:

Because they are now six years since ,
because there is on earth still
nothing as sweet as a
room for two, if it's yours and mine

I studied more closely the classical tradition present in Gil de Viedma in this article.

I realize, of course, they almost always comment here on the same poets, my classics : Catullus, Horace, Virgil, Statius, Fray Luis de Leon, Quevedo, Gabriel y Galán, Luis Cernuda , Jaime Gil de Viedma ...

want my readers to enjoy the love, poetry and life.

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