In the canon
Retrato
Antonio Machado
- Form
- Form Poem
- Year
- Year 1907
- Originally in
- Originally in Spanish
- Pages
- Pages 2
A patio in Seville, a bright orchard where a lemon tree ripens: this is how Antonio Machado chooses to begin the story of himself, and everything that follows stays just as unguarded. Retrato opens Campos de Castilla with the poet taking his own measure in plain alexandrine couplets, and the honesty is disarming.
My childhood is memories of a patio in Seville, / and a bright orchard where the lemon tree ripens.
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