Finding of the magazine

Initial didactic poems of Vallejo

Abstract

The magazine, Cultura Infantil represents an icon of the cultural, literary and educational life of Peru. Valuable intellectuals such as César Vallejo, Alcides Espelucín, Juan Espejo Asturrizaga, among others, collaborated in this magazine. The HBLL Library of Brigham Young University has had custody of this collection since October 22, 2019, becoming the only library in the world, to date, wich has the complete collection, previous­ly lost to the world for a long time. My intention is to make public this world finding, of which rescue, I am proud to say, I was a participant. In this work I am going to analyze some representative poems of the poetic-educational poetry that Vallejo published in Cultu­ra Infantil magazine between 1913 and 1914. In this work, the poet leaves a didactic lesson through his poetry. The author of Trilce recreates, from his initial works, the beloved land, the deceased brother, mother nature, etc., which are part of his poetry and his later work. These poems are evidence that, since Vallejo’s early writings, in addition to poetry, he ven­tured into other literary genres. Vallejo’s poems published in Cultura Infantil, already show themes and symbols the poet used repeatedly in his subsequent work, such as water, rain, walk, tears, cemetery, family, etc. The lyrical speaker goes on a physical and metaphorical journey, where in addition to exploring unknown places, he becomes a spiritual guide who guides and teaches the listener, the inner child and the reader.