Cernuda and Gil de Biedma: monologizing the harsh truth

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze the use of the dramatic monologue in two poems "Soliloquio del farero" from Luis Cernuda's poems book named Invocations (1934-1935) and "Contra Jaime Gil de Biedma" from Poemas Póstumos Book (1968) by Jaime Gil de Biedma. In the aforementioned poems, we see the prevalence of this poetic technique, which seeks to represent the lyrical object in the first person, transmitting a series of emotions that the authors indicated show in their creations. Cernuda reflects solitude in its maximum expression when describing in its keeper (poet) a solitary subject, on the other hand, Gil de Biedma externalizes the struggle of the "supreme self", which seeks survival in a modern world.