“Mi delirio sobre el Chimborazo”: anuncios y fundación (Dossier: Bicentenario, rastros y revelaciones de la Independencia)

Abstract:

The author studies the poem written by Bolívar in 1823. He claims that upon the overwhelming beauty of the volcano and in face of a complex and chaotic fate, the hero is submitted to timeless fears. His attempt to bond with earth’s elements and set himself anew in a world being redefined in battlefields, makes Serrano draw parallels with Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. Other biblical analogies are related to the voice of time, whom Bolívar speaks to on the Chimborazo’s summit. Serrano points out that the hero, disturbed by political events, is possessed by a “violent passion”, a political project that turns into the obsession of forging the greatness of a free nation. Serrano conceives the Elder’s voice (used in the poem to name time) as representing a perpetual mythical order (custodian of mineral and spiritual worlds) that questions the one who doubts, again, just as Christ does. The author believes the poem’s open ending suggests that it is only in dreams or delusion where we can acknowledge our condition of “miserable mortals”.

Año de publicación:

2011

Keywords:

• Literatura Hispanoamericana
• independence
• Independencia
• CRITICA LITERARIA
• BOLÍVAR, SIMÓN, 1783-1830
• POESÍA PATRIÓTICA

Fuente:

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