Ruinas romanas y poesia española

Abstract

The poetic corpus about the ruins embraces the whole spectrum of the western literatures. The aim of this article isn't a quantitative register of the spanisch poetry, but to propose other lines of research that furnish a theoretical frame for the perception and interpretation of the ruins. The author displays the opinions of P. Zucker, R. Mortier, C. Disandro, B. Wardropper and G. Simmel; this last gives a theoretical frame when he presents the human history as the gradual domination of the spirit over the nature. If Simmel's criterion is aplicated to the ruins we have two tendencies: one ascendent inherent to the spirit and other descendent, to the matter. The ruins break this balance between the spirit and the nature on behalf of the second. The author illustrates with many examples these criterions beginning by the Renaissance poetry and one of his principal subjects: the ruins of Italica; he also includes contemporary authors. AH these poets inquire about the signification of the ruins as traces or vestiges of ancient sacred presences with affirmative or negative answer