The Poetry of Efrén Hernández: autoscopic vision of life and spiritual experience
Tatiana Bubnova
Acta Poética August 17, 2016 DOI: 10.19130/iifl.ap.2014.2.445 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Visión autoscópica Efrén hernández Poesía Experiencia espiritual Mística |
| Key points | Argues that Efrén Hernández uses inversion and irony to subvert religious motives in his poetry, portraying the search for God as an unfulfilled longing and highlighting human contradictions between flesh and spirit. |
Abstract
A series of ethical and religious themes, motives and concerns are shown,which are recurrent in the less studied poetic work of Efrén Hernández. Standingout are the themes of interior life and spiritual experience , manifested inthe search for God and transcendence, in the spiritual journey and autoscopicregard of man, as well as in human love and in the question regarding good andevil. These traditional issues of lyric poetry are treated here in an unorthodoxmanner. Efrén Hernández uses inversion and irony to subvert the religious motives:the search is a longing for mystical rapture, yet not accomplished, an unfructuousdesire of union with transcendence. Likewise, human contradictionsderived from the oppositions of flesh and spirit, as well as reason and passion,which lead to a poetic of rejection and renouncement.