About Jose Marti...
v Jose was born in Havana, Cuba in 1853.
v At sixteen years of age, Jose Marti published a Havana newspaper, La Ptria Libre, and wrote a dramatic poem called Abdala.
v At age seventeen, he was arrested for political reasons and served months of hard labor before he was to Spain in January of 1871.
v While exiled, Jose Marti wrote a pamphlet about the horrors of political imprisonment.
v Jose Marti received a degree in philosophy and law form the University of Saragossa.
v He traveled through Europe and in 1875 he went to Mexico City, where he worked as a journalist.
v After a short visit in Cuba, in 1877, he settled in Guatemala and taught literature and philosophy.
v In 1877 he married Carmen Zayas Bazan, daughter of a Cuban exile, and shortly after he was married, he published a book called Guatemala.
v Then in 1878 he went back to Cuba and conspired against Spanish authorities.
v Around 1878 to 1879 he fled Spain and came to the United States of America.
v After about a year in New York, he left to Venezuela.
v Shortly after that he came back to New York, and settled there from 1881 to 1895.
v In 1895 Jose left to join the war for Cuban independence which he had organized, there he died in one of the first skirmishes.
v He lived from 1853-1895, and died in his home town.
v At sixteen years of age, Jose Marti published a Havana newspaper, La Ptria Libre, and wrote a dramatic poem called Abdala.
v At age seventeen, he was arrested for political reasons and served months of hard labor before he was to Spain in January of 1871.
v While exiled, Jose Marti wrote a pamphlet about the horrors of political imprisonment.
v Jose Marti received a degree in philosophy and law form the University of Saragossa.
v He traveled through Europe and in 1875 he went to Mexico City, where he worked as a journalist.
v After a short visit in Cuba, in 1877, he settled in Guatemala and taught literature and philosophy.
v In 1877 he married Carmen Zayas Bazan, daughter of a Cuban exile, and shortly after he was married, he published a book called Guatemala.
v Then in 1878 he went back to Cuba and conspired against Spanish authorities.
v Around 1878 to 1879 he fled Spain and came to the United States of America.
v After about a year in New York, he left to Venezuela.
v Shortly after that he came back to New York, and settled there from 1881 to 1895.
v In 1895 Jose left to join the war for Cuban independence which he had organized, there he died in one of the first skirmishes.
v He lived from 1853-1895, and died in his home town.
Contributions:
- He believed that no other country should control Cuba, so he devoted his life to fighting to end colonial rule in Cuba.
- He fought and strived for creating a free nation in the Caribbean.
- Jose believed that freedom and justice should be the cornerstone of any government.
- He took up struggle against fighting for these ideas freely.
- Jose was at odds with the type of government/control that was in place in Cuba.
- All of his teachings go along with the ideas of individual freedom and against cruel dictatorship.
- One of the major contributions that Jose Marti did was started the Cuban Revolutionary Party, which raised funds for the war and established a Cuban government that would take over when the war for Independence was over.
- Jose was an Instigator for the Revolution towards independence and freedom.
Poems By Jose Marti:
A Sincere Man Am I (Verse I)
I Have a White Rose to Tend (Verse XXXIX)
If You've Seen A Mount Of Sea Foam
Pour Out Your Sorrows, My Heart (Verse XLVI)
The Spanish Dancer
I'm So Frightfully Unhappy
I'll Never Forget, I Vow (Verse XIV)
Because Your Eyes Were Two Flames
I Have a White Rose to Tend (Verse XXXIX)
If You've Seen A Mount Of Sea Foam
Pour Out Your Sorrows, My Heart (Verse XLVI)
The Spanish Dancer
I'm So Frightfully Unhappy
I'll Never Forget, I Vow (Verse XIV)
Because Your Eyes Were Two Flames
Quotes by Jose Marti:
"It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing."
"Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist."
"Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice."
"Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing."
"Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men."
"Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist."
"Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice."
"Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing."
"Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men."
Questions for Jose Marti:
Was it worth going to prison for believing in what you thought was right?
How important was it to you that there was freedom in your country?
What did you fear would happen if the United States took control of Cuba?
Why did you think that traveling to different countries and learning about their culture would help you achieve Cuban independence?
Was there anything that you wish you could have accomplished that you didn’t?
What type of success did you see in your efforts to gain independence?
How important was it to you that there was freedom in your country?
What did you fear would happen if the United States took control of Cuba?
Why did you think that traveling to different countries and learning about their culture would help you achieve Cuban independence?
Was there anything that you wish you could have accomplished that you didn’t?
What type of success did you see in your efforts to gain independence?
