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Question SA-3. Here is the text reference (p. 160/4 & 161/2):

Martí was in many ways the ideal "bridge" person between the Latin American and U.S. political and cultural worlds of his day. Like Rodó and many others before him, he admired much of what the United States had to offer, but he also warned his Latin compatriots of the seductive and less attractive side of U.S. materialism (see his essay, "Nuestra America-Our America"). He was especially concerned that the United States would seek to force Spain out of Cuba and Puerto Rico for its own political and economic benefit.

As a poet Martí took many of the finer elements of the late romantic period in Latin American literature and re-fused them into the foundations of the emerging modernist movement. His poetry is thus simpler, more emotional and less aloof than Darío's. His "Simple Verses" are still very popular, and have been adapted to become the lyrics of the song "Guantanamera".