Elementos marinos en Ramón López Velarde: un poeta que no conocio el mar
Maritime elements in the oeuvre of Ramon Lopez Velarde, a poet who ‘never knew the sea’
Author(s): Luis Juan Solis CarrilloSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: Considered by many as the ‘national poet’ of Mexico, cantor of a province traumatized by the 1910 Revolution, Ramon Lopez Velarde Jerez writes poetry abounding in maritime metaphors: boat, vessel, islands, among many other images match the voice of a poet who equated his own personality to a lamp: a sailboat-shaped vessel, which hangs in the Cathedral of San Luis Potosi. In a poetic horizon that extends between the ends of a marked dualism, Lopez Velarde aspires, as he says in one of his most celebrated poems, to ‘drop anchor in the last treasure of love’. Similarly, he speaks of a ‘curly tide’, in which ‘the sea smiles’ and ‘unstable foam is eternity’. His are wonderful, crystal-clear, images: no small thing in the case of a poet who, as they say, ‘never knew the sea’.
Journal: Review of International American Studies
- Issue Year: 8/2015
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 11-34
- Page Count: 24
- Language: Spanish