Abstract

BADAGNANI, Adriana. Death imagery in Francisco Urondo'spoetry. CELEHIS [online]. 2014, n.27, pp.85-102. ISSN 2313-9463.

Most literary criticism about Urondo's poetics has accentuated two periods: The first one, from the '50s to the early '60s, connected with the search of new ways in poetics; the second, between the late '60s and the early '70s, signed by commitment and militancy. We believe that it is not possible to differentiate both moments so abruptly; then, there are more lines of continuity than of rupture between them. A key idea in the texts that deal with the structures of feelings typical of militancy is that in the soldiers there is an exaltation of death; but it is possible to moderate this idea by stating that there was a distinction between the triumphalist declarations of the armed organizations and the intimate feelings of fear and foreboding of defeat. These contradictory elements appear in Urondo's poetics; in his poems there is an idea of celebration of life and its pleasures that continues until his last works. The tension between the attachment to life understood as enjoyment and the risk of death are shown like a problematic knot that concentrates around the figure of "valer la pena" / (being worthwhile).

Keywords : Urondo; poetry; intellectuals; militancy; death.

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