This study is an interpretation of the poetic work of the Puerto Rican poet Francisco Matos Paoli from 1937 to 1962 focusing on the creation and metamorphorsis of the poetic voice. This approach views the poetic voice as a linguistic device, autonomous from the real author. It establishes a distance between the I of the poem and the concept of mask or persona. The study interprets the poetic voice as a combination of several poetic modes which represent different accents in the major ideological perspectives of the discourse. The various modes of the poetic, patriotical, metaphysical I (subdivided into Christian, spiritualist and espiritista I), and the family I (subdivided into father, son, brother and lover) constitute the space of the poetic voice as one of tension between these discourses. These modes of the poetic voice express the basic binary opposition life/death which is transformed as it passes through the various books according to the movement of the poetic modes and their discourses. In Cardo labriego (1937) the opposition life/death begins in the first part of the book assuming the form of the opposition productivity/dearth. In Habitante del eco (1944) and Teoria del olvido (1944) the basic opposition is in the context of the spiritualist communication between the world of "here" and the world of "beyond." In Canto a Puerto Rico (1952), Luz de los heroes (1954), and Canto nacional a Borinquen (1982) written in 1955, the opposition life-death becomes the opposition freedom/colonialism. In Criatura del rocio (1958) the opposition uses the Christian signs in the context of espiritista communication. Finally, in Canto de la locura (1962) the different forms of opposition are all present in an attempt to reconcile them in the utopian space of the poetic voice. This reading of Matos Paoli's poetic journey comes to the conclusion that during this period of poetic production the discourse of the poet is creating a poetics based on a demand made of the reader. The implicit reader of this poetry knows the various contexts of the several modes of the poetic voice.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:dissertations-7298 |
| Date | 01 January 1988 |
| Creators | Alberty, Carlos R |
| Publisher | ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |
| Source Sets | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Language | Spanish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest |
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