INTRODUCTION

THE BLUE BIRD.

Félix Rubén García Sarmiento
Rubén Darío

This literary work was published in 1970 in the states

united when Rubén Darío was 54 years old
years

The father.
Friends and other acquaintances of poor Garcin

This literary work presents a tranquil environment,

worthy of purity, with a literary genre that is
lyrical

This story uses a genre of suspense and

Joy also uses a lot of metaphor.
The main character is Garcin; this character was a
excellent guy a bit bitter not very happy, he
He was a poet who liked to drink absinthe.

In the story, the tale of a poor Garcin is presented.

a bitter person a little sad for whom
was passionate about poetry.
THE BLUE BIRD
Paris is fun and terrible theater. Among the
concurrent to the Plombier café, good and determined
boys -painters, sculptors, poets- yes, everyone
looking for the old green laurel!, none more beloved
that poor Garcín, almost always sad, good
absinthe drinker, dreamer who never
he was getting drunk, and as an impeccable bohemian, brave
improviser.

In the ramshackle little room of our cheerful

meetings, kept the plaster of the walls, among the
sketches and traits of future Clays, verses, stanzas
full written in the thick and bold letter of
our beloved blue bird.

The blue bird was the poor Garcín. Don't you know why?
Was that its name? We baptized him with that.
name.

That was not just a whim. That excellent

The boy had the sad wine. When he
we wondered why when we all laughed like
foolish or like little kids, he furrowed his brow and
I was staring at the ceiling, it answered us.
smiling with some bitterness...
Comrades: you should know that I have a blue bird
in the brain, therefore...

It also happened that he/she liked to go to the countryside.

new, as spring arrives. The air of the forest
it was good for their lungs, as the poet told us.

From his excursions, he used to bring bouquets of violets and

thick booklets of madrigals, written to the noise
from the leaves and under the wide sky without clouds. The
violets were for Nini, her neighbor, a girl
fresh and pink with very blue eyes.

The verses were for us. We read them and

we applauded them. We all had a praise for
Garcín. He was a naive person who was meant to shine. Time
It would come. Oh, the blue bird would fly very high. Bravo!
Good! Hey, waiter, more absinthe!

Principles of Garcín:

Of the flowers, the pretty bellflowers.

Among the precious stones, the sapphire. Of the
immensities, the sky and love: that is to say, the pupils
by Nini.

And the poet repeated: I believe that it is always preferable the

neurosis to imbecility.

Sometimes Garcín was sadder than usual.

I was walking through the boulevards; I saw the indifferent pass by.
luxurious carriages, the elegant ones, the beautiful women.
In front of the jeweler's window, she smiled; but
when I passed by a bookstore, I
I arrived at the windows, sniffed around, and upon seeing the luxurious...
editions, he was decidedly declared envious,
he frowned; to vent his feelings, he turned his face
towards the sky and sighed. She ran to the café in search of
we, moved, exalted, almost crying, asked for a
absinthe glass and he told us:

Yes, within the cage of my brain is imprisoned a

blue bird that wants its freedom...
There were some who came to believe in a disaster.
of reason.

An alienist who was informed of what

he classified the case as a monomania
special. His pathological studies left no room for
doubt.

Clearly, the unfortunate Garcí was crazy.

One day he received from his father, an old provincial man of

Normandy, cloth merchant, a letter that
it said the following, more or less:

"Be your madness in Paris. As long as you remain in that

In that way, you won't get a single penny from me. Come and take the ...
books from my warehouse, and when you have burned,
gandul, your manuscripts of nonsense, you will have my
money.

This letter was read at the Café Plombier.

Are you leaving?

Aren't you leaving?

Do you accept?

-Do you despise?

Bravo Garcín! He tore the letter and dropped the rag to the
Vena improvised a few verses that ended,
if I remember correctly:

Yes, I will always be a slacker,

which I applaud and celebrate,
as long as it is my brain
cage of the blue bird!

Since then, Garcín changed his character. He became

Charlador, took a bath of joy, bought a tailcoat.
new, and began a poem in tercets titled,
Well, it's clear: The bluebird.

Every night, something new was read at our gathering.

the work. That was excellent, sublime, outrageous.

There was a very beautiful sky, a very countryside

fresh, countries sprouted as if by the magic of the brush
of Corot, faces of children peeking among flowers; the
Nini's eyes are moist and large; and in addition,
good God who sends flying, flying, above all
that, a blue bird that without knowing how or when
inside the brain of the poet, where it remains
imprisoned. When the bird sings, verses are made
cheerful and pink. When the bird wants to fly, it opens
the wings hit against the walls of the skull, they
they raise their eyes to the sky, wrinkle their forehead, and drink
wormwood with little water, smoking as well, to top it off,
a paper cigarette.

There is the poem.

One night Garcín arrived laughing a lot and, however,

very sad.

The beautiful neighbor had been taken to the cemetery.

-A piece of news! A piece of news! Final song of my poem.

Nini has died. Spring is coming and Nini is leaving.
Saving violets for the countryside. Now what's missing is the
epilogue of the poem. The editors do not even deign
read my verses. You will soon have to
disperse yourselves. Law of time. The epilogue must be titled
How the bluebird soars into the blue sky.
Full spring! The blossoming trees, the clouds
rosy at dawn and pale in the afternoon; the gentle air
what moves the leaves and makes the ribbons flutter
straw hats with special noise! Garcín has not
I am going to the countryside.

There he is, coming in a new suit, to our beloved Café

Plumber, pale, with a sad smile.

-My friends, a hug! Hug me all, like this,

strong; say goodbye to me with all your heart, with all the
soul... The blue bird flies.

And the poor Garcín cried, he hugged us, he tightened us

He left with all his strength.

We all said: Garcín, the prodigal son, is looking for his

father, the old Norman. Muses, goodbye; goodbye, thank you.
Our poet decides to measure cloth! Hey! A
Cup by Garcín!

Pale, scared, saddened, the next day,

all the regulars of Café Plombier that
we made so much noise in that little room
disheveled, we found ourselves in the room of
Garcín. He was in his bed, on the sheets
bloodied, with a skull shattered by a bullet.
On the pillow there were fragments of dough
cerebral. How horrible!

When, after the first impression, we were able to

crying in front of our friend's corpse, we found
that had with it the famous poem. In the last
page had these words written: Today, in the middle
spring, left the door of the cage open for the poor
blue bird

Oh, Garcín, how many carry your same in the brain.

disease!

DEVELOPMENT

THE BLUE STRIKE

The most obvious modernist feature is the café bar.
modernist where the artists are

Paris became the artistic and cultural center in the 19th century
twentieth century in the era of the avant-garde and of
modernism
The theme also aligns with modernist poetry.
that is, through symbols (blue bird) the act us
describe a certain so-called madness of his companion
the poor Garcin literary

What it's really about are some imaginations.

and immense creativity with that of Garcin himself fights
in this earthly life. He says that in his head there is a
blue bird imprisoned by someone with the level of
higher consciousness

It also addresses the theme of a forbidden love (death)

) and the topic of death approaches as
something everyday, I mean after having said goodbye to
your friends as if it were a physical journey

It is fair the suicide that represents freedom.

modernists are often misunderstood and sometimes some
they tend to life after death because there
they will be understood while others are satisfied with themselves
same

In the case of the bluebird, the bird symbolizes the

freedom trapped in an earthly mind and the only one
the way to free him is to die and let him fly away from his
cage

In the case of Father Garcin's letter, his response.

what will always be a slacker is another example of the
modernist freedom that opposes tradition of
stop the nonsense

Within this example, the character of the father

(elderly) symbolizes conservatism and of
character of the son (young)

The author describes Paris as fun and terrible.

this way it personifies but the city does not become
a character, if not more so the imaginary world
of the artists of the era

Nini is not talked about much but it says that she was a
a very fresh girl who had very bright eyes
blueish. She dies around the middle of the story and
it changes the life of the poor Garcin

According to Garcin, the air of the forest was good for

his lungs
He liked to go to the new countryside upon entering it.
spring
When Garcin said inside my brain there is a
blue bird that wants its freedom there were some who
they came to believe it was a breakdown of reason because
They said that the unfortunate Garcin is crazy.

The verses were for others and they read them and him
They applauded. Everyone had praise for the genuine.
that had to shine

One day he received a letter from his father that said the
next:
"be of your craziness as long as you remain that way"
you will have nothing of mine

Come to take my books from my warehouse and when you have

burnt all your written hands you will have of me
money

Since then, Garcin changed his character and became

He bathed in joy and began a poem.
titled the blue bird every night they were read in the
talks something new from the work as it was excellent

CONCLUSION
Garcin, who is a sad man, is a very good drinker.
from alcohol to Garcin well known as the bird
blue his friends took him as crazy because he
he said that the blue bird in his brain wanted his
freedom

Garcin who undergoes a change upon receiving some letters

ordered by her father, she tears them up and starts writing
stanzas from that moment Garcin changes his
character has a man always cheerful in one of his
strophes said that she left the door open of her cage
so that the poor blue bird flew and thus they cried in
the body of his great friend the blue bird

In particular, we chose this story because

it is very interesting and there are very beautiful phrases

The main problem of this grand story is that

they didn't believe anything he said since he mentioned
that was coming from her mind