The Archeology of Singing

Traditional Lyric in the poetry of Joaquín Pasos

Abstract

The poetic work Joaquín Pasos, the youngest of the avant-garde group, concentrates the objectives of the present work. Steps, as you know, took part in the group of writers who found the avant-garde literary movement in Nicaragua, about 1930. The intentions of this work are, in particular, those of collating the poetry of this avant-garde poet, subscribed to the identity searches of his generation, in the great heart of the traditional lyric, in the route of possible traces in his writing, and how these traces of tradition would operate in correspondence with the aesthetic ambitions of the Nicaraguan avant-garde, and with those of Joaquín Steps as a member of this movement. So, the aspirations of this study they are to attend to that eventual dialogue between the Lyric characteristic of tradition and the one that produced Steps and that is compiled in his book Poems of a Young (1962), a dialogue that we assume It was full of exchanges, oppositions and literary singularities