person
Francisco Montes
Montez
also: Montez, Paquiro
The celebrated Andalusian matador Francisco Montes ('Paquiro', 1805-1851), who codified the modern bullfight; Rilke's 'Corrida' is dedicated to his memory.
Reading notes
- New Poems: The Other Part §64 MONTEZ
Francisco Montes ('Paquiro'), the great matador to whose memory the poem is dedicated; the bull, not the man, is the poem's true subject, grown from a small startled animal into a black clenched mass.