«Cometemos un círculo que dura». Sobre el poema extenso moderno: tres calas en la lírica hispánica:Espacio, Metropolitano y El Libro, tras la duna

Abstract

The poetic genre that, together with the prose poem, best represents the literary modernity and the contemporary thought (fragmentary, chaotic and lost in its own identity crisis) is the long poem. The first section of this doctoral dissertation aims to define the ontological features and semantic aspects of this genre and –opposite to the traditional long poem– to show its lyricism, distinguishing criteria and its own expressive abilities. In addition to a proposal of classification and canon of the western long poem, this research aims to prove that the length of this expressive mode meets literary needs such as the thematic density, the structural complexity or its planning. After the generic formulation, the second section analyses three paradigmatic long poems of the literary Spanish context: Espacio of Juan Ramón Jiménez; Metropolitano of Carlos Barral; and El libro, tras la duna of Andrés Sánchez Robayna.