Editing Luis Cernuda (section)

====Invocaciones (1934–1935)====

This collection was originally called ''Invocaciones a las gracias del mundo'' but Cernuda later shortened it to make it seem less pompous. Tired with the habitual brevity of poems in the tradition of [[Antonio Machado]] or Jiménez, he starts to write much longer poems than hitherto. When he started work on these poems, he realised that their subject-matter needed greater length for him to be able to express everything he needed to say about them. He cast off all the remaining traces of "pure" poetry.<ref name="Cernuda640">Cernuda: OCP vol 1 Historial de un libro p 640</ref> He also notes, however, that there is a tendency to ramble at the beginning of certain poems in this book as well as a degree of bombast.

His principal subject-matter is still essentially himself and his thoughts but he starts to view things in a more objective way: the poetry is more analytical. For example, in "Soliloquio del farero", the poet finds an escape from desperation in an enclosed and solitary world very similar to that of his earliest poems. The poem is addressed to his "friend" - solitude - and he develops the idea that he has been chosen to serve mankind in some way by being separated from them, just like a lighthouse-keeper. Other poems in the collection allude to Greek mythology or a golden age of innocence that has been lost.<ref name=Connell206 /> Early in 1935, at the height of his relationship with Stanley Richardson, Cernuda dedicated "Por unos tulipanes amarillos" to him.<ref name="Stanley Richardson and Spain" />