martes, 30 de abril de 2013

¿Public administration character?

Public Administration it’s not a very exciting career with interesting characters, and I don’t feel it like my “career” yet. Maybe Maquiavelo it’s a polemic historic character, but he isn’t a real administrator and I don’t admire him neither. Also, the people who finally graduate of PA, had a pretty big field to play as administrator, but those spheres aren’t mine. So, I’d like to write about a poet, because when I was a child, I really enjoy writing poetry and I published my work in an infantile magazine named Icarito.



When I was a child, I really looked up to Gabriela Mistral. She is a Chilean poetess named Lucila Godoy Alcayaga who born in the Elqui Valley in 1889. She wrote a huge work of poetry, highlighting her love for children and her melancholy and sadness poetry, stressing in suffering and intense feelings. Mistral won the Nobel Prize of literature in 1945. I always admire the sensitivity to write that Gabriela had, the way to sense and describe those feels. Her poetry really broke my hearth. One of my favourite poems is “Caperucita roja”, a crude version of the popular infantile tale “Little red ridding hood”. I take the liberty to quote a fragment of this poem:
"Caperucita ha entrado, olorosa de bayas. 
Le tiemblan en la mano gajos de salvia en flor. 
«Deja los pastelitos; ven a entibiarme el lecho». 
Caperucita cede al reclamo de amor. 

De entre la cofia salen las orejas monstruosas. 
«¿Por qué tan largas?», dice la niña con candor. 
Y el velludo engañoso, abrazado a la niña: 
«¿Para qué son tan largas? Para oírte mejor». 

El cuerpecito tierno le dilata los ojos. 
El terror en la niña los dilata también. 
«Abuelita, decidme: ¿por qué esos grandes ojos?» 
«Corazoncito mío, para mirarte bien...» 

Y el viejo Lobo ríe, y entre la boca negra 
tienen los dientes blancos un terrible fulgor. 
«Abuelita, decidme: ¿por qué esos grandes dientes?» 
«Corazoncito, para devorarte mejor...» 

Ha arrollado la bestia, bajo sus pelos ásperos, 
el cuerpecito trémulo, suave como un vellón; 
y ha molido las carnes, y ha molido los huesos, 
y ha exprimido como una cereza el corazón..."

1 comentario:

  1. Isidora, I agree with you, the public administration like a science is really boring.
    Now Gabriela Mistral is really interesting woman, and so is a chilean woman.

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