Original analysis here: https://ddcpoetry.blogspot.com/2013/02/analysis-of-elegy-by-jose-maria-hinojosa.html
Another self-conscious post by me. Anyways,
Looking over the poem again the rhetorical questions about failing to get to a destination:
"Alone I sailed, / Where will I arrive?
"If the hot air balloon were lost, / on what land would it fall?"
"If the ship were to wreck, / it would sink in what waters?"
there's a sense of place, especially with the line "what waters?" Should that matter when someone is going through a traumatic disaster? But this is all metaphorical. The important part is at the end "Alone I started / No one knows why. / But, I, yes I, Know!"
The exclamation at the end refocuses the poem to the resolve and the purpose of the speaker, regardless of possible metaphorical disasters happen and places to be. It's the spirit of adventure and a tongue in cheek feel to the "possible elegy."
It's been a while since I read (or reread) a poem that has a strong feel of individual passion and a resolve that doesn't need outside validation.
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Found this on the Spanish Wikipedia of José María Hinojosa. The quote is a translation from google translate:
José María Hinojosa is considered one of the main representatives of the anti-communist tendency within the Spanish artistic-literary avant-garde, along with Ernesto Giménez Caballero and Ramón Sijé . 6 [sic]
He was also assassinated on August 22, 1936. In this context, he the poet believed in something enough to write and die for it.
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