Poetry In Primary Schools: Educational Problems By Exclusion Of Literature In Paraguay

Poetry in primary schools: educational problems by exclusion of literature in Paraguay

Awareness on the reading of works by Paraguayan writers

Readings, especially literary, have enormous effects such as satisfaction and delight in the artistic field, develops creativity, imagination, enriches vocabulary, improves attention and concentration, projects values and reflections, helps to form understandingArtistic, develops the ability to compete – linguistics and offers a subtlety of behavior since it reflects the life, culture and custom of peoples.

According to the source "Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library", Paraguayan literature is one of Latin America’s greatest and unknown and according to "Guaraní Portal", the first literary manifestations date from the 16th century, the most emblematic and known writers outside our countryThey are scarce, Josefina Pla, Gabriel Casaccia, Elvio Romero, Rubén Bareiro Saguier and Augusto Roa Bastos. The history of Latin American literature does not include any Paraguayan poet born before the year 1900, although ignorance does not imply, that there is no written work.

The nineteenth century is like a vacant patio in the Paraguayan literary creation, the time of the dictatorship of the DR. France eliminated literary practices in our country.

After the dictatorship of the DR. France, only some authors who have dedicated themselves mainly to poetry, such as Natalicio Talavera, and some isolated literary, since the damage left by the Triple Alliance War admitted that these literary activities were interrupted.

A few years later, the beloved Guaraní land has dedicated himself to reconstruction during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, he undertook the first important literary productions, but these, they appeared in the mid -twentieth century.  

During this century, the practice of literature slowly increases to the point of achieving the greatest exponent in the poets of the 40th generation. Among them is Augusto Roa Bastos, the most universal writer of the Guaraní race, and from 1960, more works appeared and in the 80s, for the first time, a set of publishers favored the publication of new authors.

Since the end of the 80s, the notable increase in narrative production can be seen, compared to the very low number of works of this genre. Also in this century, literature written by Paraguayan women was born, which was very important, since in very difficult times of their lives and that of their relatives used the words, leaves and pencils to describe our nation, the first poet wasTeresa Lamas very expensive of Rodriguez-Alcala who in his childhood, liked to visit his grandmothers and auTo write what they had told him, it was so that at 34 he brought to light his first book of "Household Traditions", which gave the testimony of many experiences of the Great War.

In the same century, the writer Josefina Plá was born, a woman of Spanish nationality, but helped a lot to revive, highlight and open new dimensions in the literature of our country. They also emerged as writers;María Luisa Artecona, Dora Gómez Bueno de Acuña, Ida Talavera de Fracchia, Carmen Soler, Ana Iris Chaves de Ferreiro and others.

The writer Ana Iris Chaves de Ferreiro grew at a time of boom from the poet. As a writer, she referred her works in the uses and customs of our country, the traditional, and other works in the state of the Guaraní woman, whose works are usually very enjoyable and brief. He was considered the protagonist and promoter of literature written by women in Paraguay, has worked on the mass incorporation of women into the world of books.

In his story entitled "The guerrilla" is a person named Jorge, who participated in a war where the bullets passed like whistles on his head, and so much fear he had, he thought that there he would stop living, his struggle, the desirewhat had to end there. A person, would you be afraid of being killed?

Of course!, Ana Iris Chaves When writing this story, he put himself in Jorge’s place, a man who knew that the bullets were looking for his body, sought to knock him speechless in the dusty sand, but also the writer knew that a person who has courage to faceTo the opponents, I would do it well.

Then, he described Jorge as a brave person, like his teammates, because they took into account that the slogan is to "move on, always forward" never be a task of cowards even knowing that death was gradually hugging them. In this story he tells courage, decisive power and the adventurous spirit of a man in the places and moments of great tension, of dangerous and of extreme uncertainty, that fear is only a state of circumstances, to think well before and decide onAn ideal strategy and then proceed, is the essential to achieve a desired objective.

Human values in literature

Literature is an infinite adventure that offers a wide scale of human values. Express beauty, delight and teach. Literature is the sum of everything that improves, exalts and makes man’s life more human;Although it does not have a utilitarian function, it promotes spiritual satisfactions.

Literature offers the following values:

1. Sensitizes people to other human beings.
2. Nourishes the reader’s awareness and offers elements of reflection that stimulate their personal and social development.
3. Reflect on the human condition, life, death and our passage through the world.
4. It is an effective means to interpret reality, publicize forms of thought, express spiritual content. Invites the reader to wish a better reality.

The literary works advocate: 

• An attitude towards life: both poetry and narrative, even if they deal with inconsequential issues of everyday life, can transform into an attitude towards everyday reality. Who has the habit of reading, sees life different from who does not have it.
• Literature sensitizes;The reader always adopts a more humanitarian attitude after reading, above all, the works that present collective suffering, oppression, misery. For example, the poem entitled The Nadies of Eduardo Galeano cannot fail to sensitize who reads it:
• That the life of the novelist is literature and that I have chosen to surrender to it can be taken as an eccentricity of the artistic mood that attacks poets and writers, but when I now refer to an issue in which I feel so involved, I will tryBeing objective and talking about literature as if it were something alien to me, a strange or foreign phenomenon, even knowing that to convince the reader that literature is one of the most important things in life I have no choice but to do it fromliterature itself.
• Literature, contrary to what this media society is determined to make us believe, it is not just a hobby of lunatic, living and lazy. Literature is the only possible way of life for anyone with eagerness and will to be something or someone in the world.

Learning literature is as basic as reading and writing in order to have practical and aesthetic knowledge. And yet, pedagogy bureaucrats insist on departing the literature of primary, secondary and university education on the argument that the informative and technological era must exclude from the classrooms (and consequently, from houses and workplaces) workplaces)those books born from the dreams of novelists and poets. The mediocre ensures that the so -called electronic library (summaries of book summaries) and the chats have made the art of the domain of the idea and the word expired into something useless and expired. Nothing more wrong and absurd. Readers are convinced that the wise and professionals who will stand out in coming years will be those people capable of working information with elementary laws, although not easy, of literary art.