Roen Dario

Rubén Darío, also known as ‘The Father of Modernism’, was born in the little town of Metapa on January 18th, 1867. His real name was Felix Rubén García Sarmiento. The name ‘Darío’ was adopted from agreat grandfather who was well known as Darío, and his sons and daughters as ‘the Daríos’. This name became so famous that Rubén Darío’s great grandmother signed her name as ‘Rita Darío’. His father,Manuel García, was a merchant who also adopted the name and called himself Manuel Darío when doing business.
Since he was a child he proved to be very intelligent. His favorite books were consideredcomplicated for a child’s mind. The books he read when he was just a child include ‘Don Qujote de La Mancha’ and the Bible. He also wrote some verses for regional celebrations. His creations becameknown when he was just 12 years old. At the age of 13, he made his first verse publication in a newspaper of the city of Rivas named ‘Termómetro’. Since then, he was known in his nation, Nicaragua, andin the other four Republics of Central America as the ‘child poet’.
He made his first trip to the capital, Managua, when he was becoming a teenager. Here, the Congress gave the ‘Child Poet’ ascholarship to study in Europe. Nevertheless, when he was at a party in the Presidential Palace, he recited a poem that astonished President Pedro Joaquín Chamorro who said: ‘If you write like this, againstyour parents’ religion and against your country, just being a child, imagine what it would be if you where to go to Europe to learn worse things”; therefore, instead of a scholarship to Europe, thePresident offered him one to the city of Granada, which he rejected for the historical rivalry between this city and León (where he was growing up). In Managua, he also worked in the National Library,which was an open door to Castilian literature.
At the age of 14, he made his first trip to the neighboring country of El Salvador, where he became a teacher; but he remained here just for a short...