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Journal Article
THE REALITY OF WORDS IN THE POETRY OF PEDRO SALINAS
1974
Overview
One of the most important and recurrent concepts in the poetry of Pedro Salinas is summarized in the following lines from La voz a ti debida:
Fatalmente, te mudas
sin dejar de ser tú,
en tu propia mudanza,
con la fidelidad
constante del cambiar. (125)
This old Petrarchan conceit about perpetual change, in addition to being a key thematic comment on the nature of the amada, can well be taken as an adroit piece of self-criticism by Pedro Salinas with respect to his poetic concepts and practices. The conceit, which prizes the elusive changeability of the amada, was as useful and pertinent for Salinas as it had been for Garcilaso, who gave it similar succinct expression, and Bécquer, who let it echo more indefinitely through his Rimas. But the point of changeability is not restricted solely to the amada. In all three poets, and never more so than in Salinas' La voz a ti debida, the amada appears as an enlarged reality; ubiquitous, multiple, physical and metaphysical, she is both the sum of exterior reality and the embodiment of the poet's sensitivity: everything: 'abolición/ triunfal, total, de todo/ lo que no es ella' (136). She incorporates even his poetry: as Bécquer's 'Poesía ... eres tú' is already implied in the title of Salinas' major volume. Fundamentally, her prime function is to help conceptualize the poet's thought, and thus her changeability, as many other of her features, reflects a value in the poet: Salinas, as I will attempt to show, is nothing if not changeable, even inconsistent, in his attitude towards both exterior reality and, more significantly, towards words. To some large extent, his poetics, as such, may be said to focus upon this question. The present paper considers changeability in two ways: firstly, in the exterior sense of Salinas' attitudes through the years, and secondly, in more detail, as a dynamic concept determining both theme and the expression of theme in words.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group,Liverpool University Press
