In the twenty-first poem from a series by this author, a lover fixes her "blue pupil" on the speaker's to ask him, "What is (*) poetry?" and is told: "Poetry… is you."
This author wrote a poem whose speaker feels "The invisible atoms of the air throb all around and catch fire" when he is in love. The speaker tells his lover that "the dark swallows will return / their nests upon your / balcony to hang," in a poem based on this author's breakup with Elisa Guillen to enter an unhappy arranged marriage with Casta Esteban Navarro. In the twenty-first poem from a series by this author, a lover fixes her "blue pupil" on the speaker's to ask him, "What is (*) poetry?" and is told: "Poetry… is you." This poet, who adopted his father's Flemish family name, died of tuberculosis at age 34, after which his friends arranged for the publication of his Leyendas and Rimas. For 10 points, name this preeminent Spanish Romantic poet.
This author wrote a poem whose speaker feels "The invisible atoms of the air throb all around and catch fire" when he is in love.
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer [or Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida]