Abstract

FERNANDEZ, Ángel José. Retreats and metropolis: Gil de Biedma, his poetry and the voices of the poem "Piazza del Popolo". Andamios [online]. 2015, vol.12, n.27, pp.77-96. ISSN 2594-1917.

This article proposes as a hypothesis, a creative system based on the experience lived in the metropolis, reflected and artistically elaborated from retirment. Jaime Gil de Biedma looked for retirement places, such as the Casa de Caño in La Nava de la Asunción, in Segovia, the old land owned by the family, where he passed the Civil War incidents, where he met and confronted the impacts of the belic conflict; but also, in his youth and maturity, he took it as his locus amoenus; there, he reflected, wrote literary critique and produced some of his best poems, like the titled "Piazza del Popolo", lived, thought of in this roman plaza in the Company of Maria Zambrano, and whose experience he shared while writing the romanced poem where the voices are alternated: the one from the female "narrator", the voice of the I poetic, the voices of the silence and, even the interior voices. This poem, simultaneously, reflects the aesthetic compromise with tradition and manifests the ideological substratum of the poet, like a bourgeois and his socialist aspiration, which failed due to the rejection by the party because of his homosexualism.

Keywords : Spanish poetry; tradition; social compromise; political compromise; esthetic compromise.

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