Alfonsina Storni Summary

Alfonsina Storni is one of Latin America's most widely read poets. She gained early fame through the publication of her first books of poetry, partly through their explicitly confessional nature and a... Read more

In the following excerpt, Rosenbaum discusses themes concerning the individual woman in the modern city in Storni's poetry. Rosenbaum concludes that Storni's poetic voice “is not ... Read more

In the following essay, Fishburn discusses Storni's poetry in terms of “the nature of her feminism” by “focusing on different aspects of femininity in her poetic output.&#x... Read more

In the following essay, Titiev argues that, although several of Storni's poems are now included in the “canon” of Latin-American literature commonly studied in classrooms, these s... Read more

In the following essay, Furness analyses central themes in the poems of World of Seven Wells. In the feminine literature of twentieth-century Spanish America, some authors follow true feminine trad... Read more

In the following essay, Titiev argues that, in Mundo de siete pozos, form take precedence over content, concluding that the collection is unified by formal rather than thematic elements of each poem. ... Read more

In the following essay, Titiev discusses Poemas de amor, Storni's volume of prose poems. Although generally overlooked by critics, Titiev argues, this volume represents a unique development in ... Read more

In the following excerpt, Olivera-Williams discusses two of Storni's poems as feminist statements. By the time that Argentine Alfonsina Storni published her first book of poetry in 1916, two... Read more