Gustavo Adolfo Becquer presents a romantic vision of poetry summed up in the sentence "poetry is you" because according to this vision "poetry is feeling and feeling is woman." This means that the concept of poetry is formed by the essential parts of Becquer's world. Woman, presented as the centre of Becquer's poetic universe, is an asexual idea and an attractive and passionate muse at the same time. Poetry, which is feeling as well as woman, can be seen in the same way, and therefore can be not only pure and ideal, but also living and passionate. / The poet is placed in-between the irrational world of feelings and the rational world of writing, and these two worlds, despite their contradictory appearances, are no less than two halves of one whole. For that reason the poet is able to produce written poetry. / Written poetry cannot exist without reason, because it requires the use of the common language. The poet, being sensitive and rational at the same time, can transmit vivid and ineffable poetry through his writing. Nevertheless, words are nothing more then a medium to convey impressions located beyond linguistic signs, and these impressions can be (re)born in the reader's mind and imagination. This thesis demonstrates that Becquer's writing is conceived to provoke in the individual a (re)birth of creative impressions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.83107 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Guzeyeva, Kateryna |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | sp |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of Hispanic Studies.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002227092, proquestno: AAIMR12725, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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