Black Stone on Top of a White Stone by Cesar Vallejo

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Cesar Vallejo

(March 16, 1892 – April 15, 1938 / La Libertad)

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Black Stone on Top of a White Stone

I shall die in Paris, in a rainstorm,
On a day I already remember.
I shall die in Paris-- it does not bother me--
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Cesar Vallejo

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Comments about this poem (Black Stone on Top of a White Stone by Cesar Vallejo )

palas kumar ray (1/19/2009 4:47:00 AM)

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This's the first ever poem of Cesar Vallejo I read not knowing much of the poet at all. The poem depicts his mental trauma and the helplessness which makes him affirmingly say about the end as if everything he finds happenning as per schedule.
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Cecilia Nicoletti (2/9/2007 10:13:00 AM)

The native man speaks no much.And use to be silent because hes word has been taken a long time ago from him.Vallejo interrups the old silence of natives in South American Literature.And it is true, he speaks as a white man and he lands at Europe to more lonely and sad.For his complex poetry it is about to be valued as he deserves.And to understand the real importance of having a voice and being heard...

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