Alfonsina Storni, Biography

Today im going to talk about a poetry misunderstood for its time, a leyend.. In fact my parents putt me her name.. Well is my second name... Alfonsina Storni...

Alfonsina Storni (Capriasca, Switzerland, May 29, 18921234- Mar del Plata, Argentina, October 25, 1938) was an Argentine poetess and writer of modernism.

His parents, owners of a brewery in San Juan, returned to Switzerland in 1891. In 1896, they returned to Argentina together with Alfonsina, who had been born during the couple's stay in the European country. In San Juan, he attended kindergarten and developed the first part of his childhood. In the early twentieth century the family moved to Rosario (province of Santa Fe), where his mother founded a home school and his father installed a coffee near the Rosario Central railway station.

Alfonsina served as a waitress in the family business, but since she did not like this job, she became independent and got a job as an actress. Later he would tour several provinces in a theatrical tour.

Storni served as a teacher in different educational centers, and wrote her poetry and some plays during this period. His prose is feminist and, according to critics, has an originality that changed the meaning of Latin American letters. Others divide their work into two parts: a romantic cut, which deals with the subject from the erotic and sensual point of view and shows resentment towards the figure of the male, and a second stage in which leaves aside the eroticism and addresses the issue from a more abstract and reflective point of view. Literary criticism, on the other hand, classifies the texts edited between 1916 and 1925 as tardy-romantic, and from Ocher finds avant-garde features and resources such as the antisoneto (sonnet in white verse). His compositions also reflect the illness he suffered during a large part of his life and show the expectation of the end point of his life, expressing it through pain, fear and other feelings.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer, from which she was operated. At the request of a journalistic medium, a study of chirology was carried out, whose diagnosis was not correct. This depressed her, provoking a radical change in her character and leading her to discard the medical treatments to combat it.

He committed suicide in Mar del Plata by throwing himself from the breakwater of the Club Argentino de Mujeres. Alfonsina considered that the suicide was an election granted by the free will, and thus it had expressed it in a poem dedicated to its friend and lover, the also suicidal poet Horacio Quiroga. There are romantic versions that say that he went slowly into the sea; some of those versions served to compose the song "Alfonsina and the sea", based entirely on how Alfonsina committed suicide. His body was initially veiled in that spa town and finally in Buenos Aires. Currently his remains are buried in the cemetery of Chacarita.

Here is one of her poems

TWO WORDS

Tonight in your ear you have said two words to me
Common. Two tired words
If said. Words
That old women are new.

Two words so sweet that the moon that walked
Filtering between the branches
It stopped in my mouth. So sweet two words
That an ant wanders around my neck and I do not try
Move to throw it out.

So sweet two words
What I say without wanting to, oh, how beautiful, life !?
So sweet and so gentle
What odorous oils on the body spill.

So sweet and so beautiful
How nervous, my fingers,
They move towards the sky imitating scissors.
Oh, my fingers would like
Cut stars.