Hacia una cosmovisión cultural y emocional de la poesía de Piedad Bonnett

Résumé

This doctoral thesis is based on the hypothesis of a cultural and emotional world view which shows human nature in Piedad Bonnet´s poetry, and aims to describe it and widen our knowledge of her poetic work. Thus, this thesis is meant to provide a different point of view for other researchers wanting to figure out the structural thematic clues of her poetry. A deductive method has been used to analyse and interpret the texts on three main aspects : a) historic and literary study to define the context ; b) comparative analysis to define the literary movements under her verses ; c) hermeneutic analysis to discover the emotions which give shape to the Bonnettian verses. Piedad Bonnett´s poetry is also studied under four different time aspects which define the research structuraly : past, present, poetic self and compromise with the future. In relation to this conic approach, this thesis is divided into four chapters, notwithstanding the introduction and the conclusions. The conclusions reached show that timeless traditions such as the Judaeo-Christian traditions (with numerous references to the Bible), and the Hispanic-American tradition (with César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges mainly) stand out clearly. The influence of French poetry, especially Charles Baudelaire´s, is shown in all the her poetic work. Similarly, the Colombian voices of José Asunción Silva, Porfirio Barba Jacob, Aurelio Arturo, Charry Lara and Juan Manuel Roca can be also heard in Piedad Bonnett´s poetry. Likewise, the dialogue she kept with other poets and thinkers such as Schopenhauer or Nietzsche is also reflected in her verses. Given her social involment, the Colombian poetess shows the ugly and grotesque aesthetic within the urban scenario of everyday life, where the echoes of Baudelaire´s and Neruda´s poetry resound. The poetess´ solidarity intensifies when dealing with the metaphor of violence, that devastates the Colombian country, which brings her closer to renowned poets such as Juan Manuel Roca. An existential boredom also stands out in the Bonnettian verses, bringing them close to such poests as Alejandra Pizarnik and Álvaro Mutis. Guilt and fear, emotions fed since childhood and main souvenir from her childhood, and the idealization of her mother are the reasons of the great nostalgy in the poetess. This feeling makes the poetess wonder both about the sense of life and her own identity. The way out of this labyrinth is influenced by an emotional turn in which the poetic work in itself becomes a vital action which brings plenitud to the Colombian poetess , as a consequence of the catartic and revealing power of poetry and of her world view. This liberation is opposed to the idea of death which pervades great part of her poetry. Imagination and thus, poetry, become lifesavers against existetial pain, making the poetess go beyond the limit of the particular and into the Borgean fly of the universal.