En el taller del poeta: La composición poética en el barroco

Abstract

El presente trabajo se enfoca en los mecanismos de composición poética en lapoesía del barroco, tomando como ejemplo la escritura de su más célebre exponenteamericana: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Se revisan conceptos como el de imitatio, laspartes de la retórica y, sobre todo, las fuentes de la inventio. Más que por la idea deoriginalidad, las operatorias de los poetas barrocos se explican como ejercicios devirtuosismo para lograr variaciones sobre formas y temas reconocibles en la tradición.Ese virtuosismo propició una escritura sumamente compleja y, con ella, la necesidad dela crítica literaria como hermenéutica de textos profanos. // This paper focuses on the mechanisms of poetic composition in baroque poetry,taking as an example the writing of its most famous American exponent: Sor Juana Inésde la Cruz. The imitatio, the parts of the rhetoric and, above all, the sources of theinventio are reviewed. Better than due to the idea of originality, the operations of thebaroque poets are explained as exercises in virtuosity. Those exercises tend to achievevariations on recognizable forms and themes in tradition. That virtuosity led to anextremely complex writing and, with it, the need for literary criticism as thehermeneutic of secular texts.

This paper focuses on the mechanisms of poetic composition in baroque poetry, taking as an example the writing of its most famous American exponent: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. The imitatio, the parts of the rhetoric and, above all, the sources of the inventio are reviewed. Better than due to the idea of originality, the operations of the baroque poets are explained as exercises in virtuosity. Those exercises tend to achieve variations on recognizable forms and themes in tradition. That virtuosity led to an extremely complex writing and, with it, the need for literary criticism as the hermeneutic of secular texts.