Nicanor Parra and his writings

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Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “poetry and writing” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Nicanor Parra” and its relation with “spiritual aspect of his works”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “Nicanor Parra's writings” and tries to gauge its effect on “Freudian view”.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION7

Background of the study7

Research Aims and Objectives9

Significance of the study9

Research Question9

Ethical Consideration9

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW11

History of Nicanor Parra11

Writings of Nicanor Parra13

Poems and Antipoems (Santiago, Chile, Nascimento, 1954)13

The cueca long (Santiago - Chile, Universitaria, 1958)14

Salon Verses (Santiago - Chile, Nascimento, 1962)14

Heavy Work (Santiago - Chile, Universitaria, 1969)15

Artifacts (Santiago - Chile New University 1972)15

Jokes to confuse poetry (James Gallery Ediciones Era, 1983)16

Speeches Desktop (Athena, Santiago - Chile)16

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY18

Research Method18

Qualitative Research18

Research Design18

Literature Selection Criteria19

Search Technique19

CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS20

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION29

Chapter 1: Introduction

Background of the study

 Despite the growing diversity that characterizes the literary production of the twentieth century, poetry remains a preferred study material, both by its condensation than in the questioning of being in the world it creates. Though vast, this problem does this not without ambiguities. The being appears in its constitutive ambivalence, the lyric voice is the manifestation of problems instead of passing through human existence. 

In this regard, the term refers to the ambivalence in the intermediate space available paradigmatic oppositions at work in the poem. As for Nicanor Parra, what he calls the antipoetry appears as a scathing critique of modern literary and social. From this perspective, the strategy analysis of expression of ambivalence can not only detect the specificity of antipoetry, but also put into perspective the work of the poet in the general status of poetic discourse as world phenomenon.

The study shows that the aesthetic theories of the poet on the one hand postulate the redefinition of poetry and also involve ontological reflection. The poem also appears as the privileged place of the questioning of art and its links with the understanding of being. This project was born from the combination of desire and dissatisfaction. There was, initially, on one hand the desire to question the authority poetic in its dealings with issues of ontology and, secondly, the dissatisfaction created by the evolution of the eternal debate between literary theory and philosophy.

We are witnessing today the systematic obliteration of poetry and - why hide it - the poetic work itself in favor of a trend of mutual hostility between theory and poetry.Moreover, the tangle of discourse on literature, literary theory and their relationship always conflict with the philosophy ...