Published: 2015-11-15

Elementos marinos  en Ramón López Velarde: un poeta que no conoció el mar

Luis Juan Solís Carrillo

Website: http://www.uaemex.mx/

Abstract

Maritime elements in the oeuvre of Ramon Lopez Velarde,
a poet who ‘never knew the sea’

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’.

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Solís Carrillo, L. J. (2015). Elementos marinos  en Ramón López Velarde: un poeta que no conoció el mar. Review of International American Studies, 8(2). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/3975

Entre Océanos, Umbral de Nuevos Mundos—RIAS Vol. 8, Fall–Winter (2/2015)

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2015)
Published: 2015-12-13


eISSN: 1991-2773
Ikona DOI 10.31261/RIAS

Publisher
University of Silesia Press

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