Poets who may now not withstand exile

Heredia, who in 1823, concerned within the conspiracy of the Rays and Suns of Bolívar, had had to enter exile, 13 years later, in 1836, determined so that you can see his in poor health mom, agreed to publicly retract his independence beliefs, which used to be the situation that the Spanish governor imposed on him to permit him to go into Cuba. His consult with lasted 4 months. He returned, damaged from being so depressed, to Mexico, the place he died a couple of months later, of tuberculosis, on the age of 35, on Would possibly 7, 1839.

Extra tragic is the case of Juan Clemente Zenea.

Zenea, who used to be born in Bayamo in 1832, when he used to be most effective twenty years previous, persecuted for his independence actions, had to enter exile in the USA. In 1853, the Spanish government sentenced him to demise in absentia, accused of “conspiring in opposition to Spain.” However in 1854, underneath a normal amnesty, he returned to Cuba, the place he labored as a journalist and professor.

In 1865, because of his political concepts, he had to enter exile once more. In 1870, uninterested in exile, he permitted that the Spanish government granted him secure habits to go back to Cuba at the situation that he took a peace proposal to the president of the Republic in Fingers, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.

Zenea controlled to fulfill with Céspedes, however intimidated by means of the angle of the rebel chief and the worry that he would order him to be shot as a traitor, he didn’t dare to provide the Spanish proposal to him. As Céspedes would remark in his diary: “he didn’t disclose the slightest purpose of being a docile software of Azcárate (the Spanish governor).”

Upon his go back from the rebel camp, the Spanish revoked Zenea’s passport, accused him of being a undercover agent for the Mambises, and locked him up within the L. a. Cabaña citadel. Sentenced to demise, his lifestyles ended on August 25, 1871, within the Laureles Pit of L. a. Cabaña, in entrance of a platoon of ten riflemen.

Unhappy destiny: loss of life by the hands of those that disadvantaged him of his place of birth and being known as a traitor by means of his compatriots; or worse nonetheless, as a result of the impolite adjective that Cubans use for cowards: “asshole.”

in his e book My Cuba, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, every other exiled author, however who knew how to withstand exile with dignity, with out giving up, wrote about Juan Clemente Zenea: “He used to be only a poet at the run. From his literary reminiscence stays that pathetic however deficient poem, of swallows, willows and cypresses, and at the Paseo del Prado in Havana, a wonderful sculptural team that turns into gruesome every now and then. The statue is a bronze guy (for the sort of susceptible poet) accompanied by means of his white marble muse, mendacity bare at his ft like a venerating Venus. In an ordinary twist of the absurd, this monument used to be later transformed into a gloomy object of gossip by means of lazy Havana citizens who grew to become the white Venus mount of the marble muse right into a scandalously black charcoal pubes.