Voice 1: Rolando's home country gives us our subject for today's hodgepodge: Nicaraguan poetry! Nicaraguans are famous for their love of poems. The president of Nicaragua is Daniel Ortega. He has said that people in Nicaragua consider every Nicaraguan a poet, until that person has proved that he is not a poet. Nicaragua has produced some of the greatest poets in the Spanish language - Salmon de la Selva and Ruben Dario.
Voice 2: Ruben Dario was a poet in the late eighteen hundreds. He wrote poems in a new, fresh way. At this time, his poems were very different from other poems. He was the first modernist writer of Spanish poetry. Ruben started writing poems when he was very young. This is why people call him, 'El Nino Poeta.' This means, 'The Child Poet.' Here is a famous quote from Ruben Dario:
Voice 1: What do you think these words mean? Do they mean always have hope in a country - even if other people do not? Do they mean that it is dreams that bring change? Write and tell us your thoughts!