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Essay / Eunice Oido - 1682
Odio says that “The poem is not a set of ideas and words but a substantial order. A poem is the action of the Word. It is therefore impossible to analyze it, to isolate each of its agreements. Always..., a generative act, a poem (Vallbona 25). And it shows in his own poetry. As in his poems of Terrestrial Elements, we feel the action of the Word. These are not only poems about love, but also movements of emotions, blood, sweat and earth. These are poems that speak of a true soul. Eunice Odio is a poet who puts on paper the essence of the abstract spirit of human beings. I'm going to talk about how Odio describes love in The Earthly Elements, as well as the type of vocabulary he uses and how he combines nature with the bodies of human beings. Although Eunice Odio is known as a poet, she wrote in. other genres. He wrote short stories and critical essays on art and literature. But for all her poetry, she did not attract much attention from Costa Rican audiences and literary critics. Her poetry appears in many Costa Rican and Latin American anthologies and newspapers, but few textbooks have been written about her. Costa Rican critic Alfonso Chase says the reason little attention is paid to Odio is because she is very vocal about her opinions about Puerto Rico (Vallbona 1). Her poetry is special because she writes from a woman's point of view. When writing about love, she integrates aspects of nature and with these metaphors she can create love verses with an erotic touch, which we have never seen come out of a woman with such force , born in San José, Costa. Rica, the fact The exact date of her birth is unclear, but what we do know is that she was born somewhere between 1919 and 1922. She was a very curious child and at the age of Four years old, she showed her independence and frequently ran away from my house just to go around town. In an interview, Odio says she learned to read in just two days of school (Jiménez 1). At the age of nine she became very ill..