The poetry of Ernesto Mejía and its links with the aesthetics of romanticism: a comparative approach

Abstract

Starting from a comparative approach, the following interpretive work analyzes the poetry of Ernesto Mejía Sánchez and his aesthetic links with three poets of European Romanticism: Novalis, Charles Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé. Novalis' relationship with the Nicaraguan is reflected in the conception of poetry as magic, ritual and enchantment, as well as in the importance that Mejía Sánchez attributes to the nocturnal. With Charles Baudelaire the communicating vessel is the game of correspondences and analogy. From Mallarmé, our poet will take the vision of the poem as an artistic object, that is, free from the bonds of meaning, both poets imagine the poem as an exercise of silence and emptiness.