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Abstract:
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This study focuses on Devocionario, Ana Rossetti's penultimate book of poetry to date, viewing it as the culmination of a process of development towards poetic maturity. At the beginning of our research on the topic, we were first struck by the scarcity of critical studies on her work, as well as the repeated attempts to apply increasingly restrictive labels to it: erotic poetry, feminist poetry, new Andalusian poetry... If we add to the foregoing the notable lack of studies on her work as a whole, the scant attention paid to aspects of form in Rossetti's poetry, and the undeniable quality of her poetic style which captivates the reader from the very start, our intention of offering an overview of her poetic development through an analysis of Devocionario, the book of poetry which summarizes and encompasses her earlier works, will be seen to be a natural choice. Devocionario is, then, the object of our analysis, and we pay special attention to the last section of the work, entitled "Divinas Palabras". Our aim is to show that Devocionario, and especially "Divinas Palabras", can be seen as the end result of a poetic quest. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) |
