Del Diario (1916) de Juan Ramón Jiménez aPoeta en Nueva York (1929) de Federico García Lorca: un viaje de ida yvuelta
From Juan Ramón Jiménez’s “Diario” (1916) to Federico García Lorca's “Poeta en Nueva York” (1929): A Journey To and From

Summary/Abstract: This essay is the study of a single voyage as it unfolds in three texts. Each of them contains descriptions of the sea, which takes the poets, Juan Ramón Jiménez and Federico García Lorca to the shore of a confrontational transformation. Jiménez’s Diario of 1916 recounts the young, love-smitten poet’s journey from Spain to New York, where he was to be married. In Poeta en Nueva York of 1929, Lorca, travelling outside of Spain for the first time, experiences a profound emotional crisis while at sea. In “Espacio,” the third of the texts discussed, Jiménez, too, faces an emotional challenge, as he finds himself face to face with a sea in which present and past have merged into a single shore. The crisis thus is a shared one, the texts marvelously overlap, and allow an intertextual reading as one, combined narrative.

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