Cesar Vallejo's Poem-Spain, Take This Cup From Me

In my opinion, Vallejo's two poem Spain, Take This Cup From Me is a very interesting poem. In the first stanza, Vallejo calls Latin America "children of the world," indicating that Latin America is still a young nation. Vallejo continues to states that "if Spain falls--I mean, it's just a thought--if she falls..." I thought it was very ironic that he says that the possibility that Spain falls is just a thought. It's almost as if he states the possibility that Spain falls and then he says, oops! I mean that won't happen but the possibility is just something that popped up in my mind. But then he confirms that possibility by again saying "if Spain falls." The phrase "if Spain falls" is like bookends around the oops! statement of "I mean, it's just a thought." That line with bookends is repeated in the third stanza and the last stanza. When I started reading that the first stanza, I thought that Vallejo was trying to reassure his audience by saying that "--I mean, it's just a thought--." Then, as I kept on reading, I thought that Vallejo seemed to be almost mocking the reader. It seemed to me that Vallejo is like a little kid keeping a secret and giving you a hint to a story, but wants you to keep guessing. In the rest of the poem, I am not really sure whether Vallejo is stating that Latin America cannot survive without Spain or whether Vallejo is trying to rev up Latin America to start a revolt against Spain. For example, "mother Spain is...appears as mother and teacher..." In this quote, Spain is teaching its students, Latin America, how to govern itself and Spain is also a mother at the same time, to nurture Latin America with the tools it needs. But, at the same time, Valeljo tells Latin America to "Lower your voice, for she is/with her rigor which is great, not knowing/what to do, and she has in her hand..." In this quote, it seems as if Vallejo is stating because Spain is clueless, Latin America can revolt against Spain. It could also be that Vallejo just wrote those words because he felt like it, but I highly doubt it.