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VICENTE ALEIXANDRE
5 La selva y el mar
2 aceros acero: steel
3 tamano size
3 odio hatred
r hirsuto hirsute
5 aplacada appeased, soothed, satisfied
6 se baten con batirse con: to fight
6 poniente west, west wind
8 ojeras circles under the eye
9 fieras wild animals
10 latidos beat (de corazon), throbbing
12 al descubierto exposed, in full view
12 arteria artery
14 reluce relucir: shine, gleam
14 colmillos tusks
15 acariciar caress
15 fosca wild (hair)
16 garra claw
17 temblorosas trembling
18 unas nails, claws
20 fulgen fulgir: glow, shine
21 cervatillo cervato: fawn
22 luce lucir: lights up, displays
23 centellea centellear: sparkle, flash
23 postuma posthumous
23 ternura tenderness
27 sesos brains
28 oprimir squeeze, exert pressure on, oppress, crush
30 menguada diminished
32 piso floor (del bosque)
32 viborillas vibora: viper
32 perspicaces perspicaz: keen-sighted, shrewd, perspicacious
33 axila armpit
33 musgo moss
34 pulcra hermosa
35 se evade de evadirse de: escape from
35 sedosa silky
38 elitros sheaths of insect wings
40 ramillas little branches (ramas)
41 espera sosegada peaceful wait
43 fasto pomp
44 ramajes branches
46 se clava clavarse: is firmly fixed; penetrates (like a nail
or clavo)
47 brota brotar: to spring, issue forth
48 no alcanzara will not reach
48 por mas que no matter how much
48 surtidor fountain, jet
48 se prolongue prolongarse: to extend, go on
49 entreabiertos half-open
50 avidez eagerness
51 dicha happiness
53 sordo rumor murmur, buzzing (muffled sound)
54 castigo punishment
55 se retira retirarse: withdraw
6 Ven siempre, ven
2 huellas traces
5 hundo hundir: to sink
6 no me atrevo a atreverse a: to dare to
6 lucero bright star (esp. Venus)
8 aislamiento isolation
8 se une con unirse con: unite with, merge with
9 se niega negarse: refuse
9 a traves de across
12 gemebunda
12 envia enviar: to send
13 destella destellar: to sparkle, flash
14 corteza bark, peel, skin, rind
15 rugosa wrinkled, rough
17 por mas que no matter how much
17 astro star
17 apagado snuffed out
18 destellante sparkling
18 me arrebata a... snatch away from me my own consciousness
20 duelo duel; grief, sorrow
20 fulgureo shining, gleaming (fulguroso)
21 roce brush, contact
21 indeleble indelible
22 deshacerse come undone, melt, disintegrate, vanish
22 abrasador burning
25 eter propagador propagating ether
(ether: the medium, according to the ancients,
that filled the upper reaches of space)
26 se abrasa abrasarse: to burn
27 extinto extinct
29 marcados por... marked with red (rojo de labios: lipstick)
30 funde fundir: fuse
31 hermetica hermetic, airtight, impenetrable
31 redondez roundness
31 rodante rolling
32 luces lucir: to illuminate, display
34 llamadas calls
34 hondura depth
37 ruedas rodar: roll (along)
37 liviana frivolous, trivial, light
12 Ciudad del paraiso
2 colgada hanging
2 imponente imposing
2 detenida detained
6 retenido retener: to retain, hold back
8 brama bramar: bellow, roar
10 presides presidir: preside over
10 espumas foam
11 calles apenas only just barely streets
11 leves light (not heavy)
12 gruesas thick
13 aladas winged
14 mecen mecer: to rock, sway
16 con destino a in the direction of
17 navegan navegar: to sail
18 graciosa graceful, elegant
19 resbalan resbalar: to slip, slide
20 rutilantes shining
21 hervidores boiling, seething, surging
22 fui conducido I was lead
23 Acaso de Perhaps from
23 reja florida flowering window grill
26 transcurre transcurrir (tiempo): to pass, elapse
27 soplo breath, puff
27 pudo could have
28 prodigiosa prodigious, marvellous
28 emergiste emergir: to emerge
30 fulgidos glowing, shining
31 alentando alentar: to breathe
31 anhela anhela: to yearn for
32 voladora flying
33 calidad de the quality of
33 suspenso suspended
34 arriba arribar: to arrive, to put into port
35 fui llevado ligero I was lightly borne
36 ingravidas weightless
38 morabas morar: to dwell
14 En la plaza
1 confiante trusting (confiado)
1 vivificador revitalizing
2 impelido impeler: to drive, urge, impel
3 rumorosamente noisily
3 arrastrado arrastrar: to drag
6 malecon pier, jetty
6 calcareamente calcareo: chalky [in its chalky way]
7 arrasarse arrasarse en: to be filled with
7 la dicha happiness
8 fluir flowing
9 palpita palpitar: to beat
12 adentrarse..entre get inside of, become lost in
13 afluido afluir: to flow [that had flowed into it]
14 denuedo courage
16 transcurria transcurrir: to lapse (se dice del tiempo)
18 un olor a an odor/scent of
18 rizandolo rizar: to curl, ripple
20 rozaba rozar: to rub against
20 reconfortaba reconfortar: to comfort, encourage, cheer
21 serpear serpentine motion
22 desvalido helpless, underpriviledged
23 cubridor de covering
24 mirarse/reconocerse look at himself, recognize herself
25 caldeada hot, warmed up
25 gabinete study
26 extranos odd, strange
26 la interrogacion questioning
32 fundete fundirse: to join, unite, become fused
32 reconocete recognize yourself
33 recelo a mistrust of, fear of
35 subirle come up around him
35 se atreve atreverse: to dare
36 cintura waist
36 todavia no not yet, doesnt yet..
36 se confia confiarse: to feel trust
37 se entrega entregarse: to surrender
38 crece crecer: to grow
38 se lanza lanzarse: to jump [in]
39 salta saltar: to jump [up, over]
40 hiende hender (o hendir): [olas: to breast]
40 late latir: to beat, throb, palpitate
41 hervor boiling (caldron), fire, passion
42 se tu mismo be yourself
44 para ser el tambien so it too can be
44 unanime corazon unanimous (one-minded) heart
44 le alcanza that reaches/ catches up to/ grasps it
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 28, 1997