Cantar de Mio Cid Spanish literature



the cantar de mio cid oldest preserved spanish cantar de gesta


the epic poem cantar de mio cid written real man—his battles, conquests, , daily life. poet, name unknown, wrote epic in 1140 , cid supposedly died forty years before in 1099. epic represents realism, because nothing exaggerated , details real, geography correctly portrays areas in cid traveled , lived. unlike other european epics, poem not idealized , there no presence of supernatural beings. has assonance instead of rhyme , lines vary in length, common length being fourteen syllables. type of verse known mester de juglaria (verse form of minstrels). epic divided 3 parts, known cantos.







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