Versiones del modelo idilico en la poesia en lengua espanola del siglo XX: Una lectura comparada de las obras de Antonio Machado, Luis Cernuda, Aurelio Arturo y Jorge Teillier

This dissertation consists of a comparative analysis of poetry works by four authors who wrote their books in Spanish during the 20th Century: Antonio Machado (1875-1939), from Spain; Luis Cernuda (1902-1963), from Spain; Aurelio Arturo (1906-1974), from Colombia; and Jorge Teillier (1935-1996), from Chile. The poems and books are analyzed from the specific point of view of categories pertaining to the theoretical approach of the "idyllic model". These categories are the thematic core of this dissertation, and they are discussed and examined by the comparative analysis in chapters 2, 3 and 4. The categories are: representation of nature (landscape and the external world), childhood (as archetype and personal narrative), mythological paradigm, and music (as topic and rhetorical resource).; The theoretical approach to my analysis is informed mainly by theories on pastoral poetry and the pastoral as ideology and discourse made in the last forty years. The main feature of this dissertation is the transfer and application of this theory and its categories, built to serve the analysis of a European literary tradition, to the specific context of the poetry written in Spanish in the 20th Century. The theory on idyll and pastoral is intended to identify a large literary tradition, highly conventional and conservative, which features the conversion of the original figure of the shepherd as an alter ego of the poet, the retreat to an ideal and familiar place (from modern and urban spaces to "nature"), childhood recollections, a mythological imagination, and the uses of "music" as a broad and structural topic and as self-conscience of the poem. However, despite its inevitable traditional aspect, idyllic poetry turns out to be remarkably flexible, adaptable, and rich in its particular inflections through different historical periods and different authors.; Therefore, the four poets I study here have a very strong and singular voice within the idyllic model framework. The numerous structural coincidences among their works allow me to pursue the identification and description of an important tradition in the Hispanic poetry written in the 20th Century.