Rosalia De Castro poems were recognized after her death for their simple verse. In most of her poems she writes about one of the themes in romantic poetry which is respect for the natural world when she expresses her love for nature in “Some say plants don’t speak” line 14-15 ‘Stars and fountains and flowers, don’t murmur against my dream; could I delight in you without them, without them, could I live? ‘Basically, she is asking herself will she be able to go on with life when other people and the world telling her that nature don’t have a soul that and they can’t communicate with her, and It is all in her imagination.
In most of her poem, especially in “As I composed this little book” she focuses in one of the themes found in romantic poetry which is individualism, it looks like she is having a conversation with the readers and she is giving an argument to prove her points. She also in that same poem talk about the importance her individualism, her need for self-expression and why she expresses herself the way she does line 9-11 ‘And time and distance and the destroying flame for passion. That is why my songs are brief and simple,-though they may not bring me fame.’ Her main goal is to get her opinion out in a very simple way and she especially doesn’t care if it doesn’t bring her fame.
In “As the clouds” and “I well know there is nothing” she uses the metaphor of the natural world to represent the good, but mostly hopeless mind line 1-11 ‘As the clouds borne by the wind now darken, now brighten the immense spaces of the sky just so the mad ideas I have,…… the abysmal depths of my mind.’ In this poem the author gives us a glimpse into her mind and her life which she compares with good and bad weather.
Concerning repetition in her poems she uses the same sentence or sometimes words in the middle from the beginning and the middle from the end, I think she uses this method to remind the readers of the points she was making and to make sure we receive her message.