Logo: Darío's princess


Question SA-13. Here is the text reference (p. 152/2):

Despite these escapist tendencies, Modernism, like Romanticism, also had a political side. This can be seen in some of the poetry of Rubén Darío ("Walt Whitman", "To Roosevelt") and especially in the essays of Rodó ("Ariel"). The principal political theme is the ambivalence of Latin America toward the United States, very evident after the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the Independence of Panama in 1903. There was great admiration for the energy, efficiency, work and dynamism of the powerful Anglo-Saxon neighbor to the north, but at the same time there was much concern over the growing US tendency toward imperialism, intervention, and excessive emphasis on material things.