Cire sunayen masu tasiri a kan waƙoƙin Ruben Dario
Context:Wakokin Faransanci sun kasance tasiri mai mahimmanci a cikin Darío a matsayin mawaki. Da farko dai, Romantics, musamman Victor Hugo. Daga baya, kuma a cikin hanyar yanke hukunci, Darío ya sami rinjayar parnassians: Théophile Gautier, Catulle Mendès, da José María de Heredia. Wani tasiri mai muhimmanci shi ne marubucin waka da waka da kuma gwarzon ƙasar Cuba, Jose Martí. Abu na ƙarshe da ke bayyana yanayin Dariyan shine sha'awarsa ga masu alamomin, musamman Paul Verlaine. Da yake sake fasalin waƙoƙin waƙoƙin kansa a cikin waƙar farko na Cantos de vida y esperanza (1905) Darío da kansa ya haɗu da manyan tasirinsa lokacin da ya tabbatar da cewa shi "mai ƙarfi ne tare da Hugo kuma mai rikitarwa tare da Verlaine" ("con Hugo fuerte y con Verlaine ambiguo".)  A cikin sashin "Palabras Liminares" na Prosas Profanas (1896) ya riga ya rubuta sakin layi wanda ya bayyana mahimmancin al'adun Faransa a cikin ci gaban aikin adabinsa:  Tsohon ɗan Spaniard mai farin gemu ya nuna jerin fitattun hotuna: "Wannan -ya ce- shine babban Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, gwanin hannu ɗaya; wannan shi ne Lope de Vega, wannan shi ne Garcilaso, wannan shi ne Quintana. " Ina roƙonsa don mutum mai daraja Gracián, don Teresa na Ávila, don jarumi Góngora kuma mafi ƙarfi duka, Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas. Sai na ce: "Shakespeare! Dante! (Yadda ake yin waƙa) Hugo...! (kuma a cikin kaina: Verlaine...!) " Sa'an nan, a lokacin da ya ce ban kwana: "-Old mutum, yana da muhimmanci a ce: matata ne daga ƙasata; ta mistress ne daga Paris. "  Los raros littafi ne mai nunawa game da dandano na adabi, wanda ya buga a shekara guda da Prosas profanas, kuma ya sadaukar da shi don yin taƙaitaccen bayani game da wasu marubutan da masu ilimi waɗanda ya ji daɗin sha'awarsu. Daga cikin waɗanda ke cikin littafin mun sami Edgar Allan Poe, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Léon Bloy, Paul Verlaine, Lautréamont, Eugénio de Castro da José Martí (wanda aka ambata shi kaɗai wanda ya rubuta aikin adabi a cikin Mutanen Espanya). Girman al'adun Faransa ya fi bayyane. Darío ya rubuta: "Halin zamani ba kome ba ne face waƙoƙi na Sfanisanci da waƙoƙi da aka gwada da na Faransanci da kuma na Faransanci". Da yake barin matakin farko, kafin Azul..., wanda waƙarsa ta ba da yawa ga manyan sunayen waƙoƙin Sifen na ƙarni na 19, kamar Núñez de Arce da Campoamor, Darío babban mai sha'awar Bécquer ne. Jigogi na Mutanen Espanya suna da wakilci a cikin aikinsa, tuni a cikin Prosas profanas kuma, musamman, bayan tafiyarsa ta biyu zuwa Spain, a cikin 1899. Sanin lalacewar Mutanen Espanya na zamani a cikin siyasa da zane-zane (damuwar da ya raba tare da abin da ake kira Generation of '98), sau da yawa ya yi wahayi zuwa ga haruffa da abubuwan da suka gabata. Dangane da marubuta a cikin wasu yarukan, yana da kyau a ambaci cewa yana jin daɗin sha'awar marubuta uku daga Amurka: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe da Walt Whitman. [ ana buƙatar ambaton ]
Victor Hugo Théophile Gautier Catulle Mendès José María daga Heredia Jose Martí Bulus Verlaine Edgar Allan Poe Villiers na tsibirin Adam Léon Bloy Lautréamont Eugénio daga Castro Ralph Waldo Emerson Walt Whitman