Caminante no hay camino in english8/18/2023 ![]() ![]() by the Spanish poet Antonio Machado, says: Caminante, no hay camino. Súbitamente y quebrarse…Nunca perseguí la gloria. Roberta claimed she picked a French major over English because it offered better. Es mi camino y nada mas.Ĭaminante no hay Camino By: Antonio MachadoĬaminos sobre el mar.Nunca persequí la gloria,Ĭomo pompas de jabón.Me gusta verlos pintarse I ask that you bare in mind that this is MY perspective and experience. I will be keeping this blog for my future self and to provide yet another perspective of what life as a PCV is like. ![]() Wanderer, your footsteps the road, and nothing more wanderer, we have no road, we make the. Caminante no hay camino sino estelas en la mar. Caminante no hay camino sino estelas en la mar Hace algún tiempo en ese lugar donde hoy los bosques se visten de espinos se oyó la voz de un poeta gritar Caminante no hay camino, se hace camino al andar Golpe a golpe, verso a verso Murió el poeta lejos del hogar. Al andar se hace el camino, y al volver la vista atrs se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. We all have distinct paths and while it is important to listen to advice, we ultimately leave our own footprints behind and no one else’s. That being said, I hope to document my journey in service through this blog. This poem conveys themes related to lifes journey, moving on, commencement,and moving up and the activities are meaningful for these topics and occasions. Caminante, son tus huellas el camino y nada ms Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. ‘Wayfarer, there is no way only wake-trails on the waters.’ The last two lines of the poem shows that the ‘Caminante’ has no path because it all disappears with the ocean and its bubbles.” The last part of the poem urges the ‘Caminante’ to not look back but forward, to keep walking the path that he has created for himself. Make your way by going farther.’ ‘Caminante’ has to keep walking to create his destiny and the new road he walks. ![]() The poet then examines how the ‘Caminante’ makes his own decisions and, thus, his own path: ‘Wayfarer, there is no way. The Spanish poet notes that the ‘Caminante’-or Wayfarer or Wanderer-already leaves footprints from his past: ‘Is your footprints and no other.’ He explains that the footprints represent his distinct past and no one else’s. “explores human destiny by using a metaphor of a road: we walk the road and thus walk life, observing the world, making choices. The Department of English at the George Washington University offers a great analysis of Machado’s poem saying that the poem I thought about his poem Caminante no hay Camino (see below in Spanish/ link for English) and how it talks about owning your distinct path. I can’t rely too much on what I read as we will all have different journeys. Together we’ll see where this trail leads.Looking at previous PCV blog’s has been useful in the preperation for my service, but it has also been very overwhelming. I sometimes find myself questioning the motives behind people’s decisions to serve based on what I have read, seen, and heard. However, I have to remind myself that coming from different backgrounds we all have different perspectives that will affect our experience as volunteers. So, I ask for a bit of patience and a sense of adventure from you, the reader. And in the case of the blog, maybe it also means that it won’t be confined to thematic rules or guidelines it might wander a bit. Perhaps what it means is that there is no purpose, no destination, but what counts is simply that we proceed, only the journey. I’ve pasted it down below, followed by a version in English. I’m calling it “No Hay Camino” after a poem by Antonio Machado. By way of a good luck message, I should like to borrow the words of Federico Garca Lorca, who said, excuse my Spanish, Caminante, no hay camino. ![]()
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