La puerta secreta (ritmo y significación en la poesía de Idea Vilariño)

Abstract

The secret door
(rhythm and signification in Idea Vilariño’s
poetry)

Idea Vilariño shared Eliot’s tenet that a poem might come into being
out of a cadence, a certain rhythm well before it is expressed in words: “A poem
might lack everything else, even its sense as it were, but its rhythm might be there.
This is essential: poetry is or is not lyrical through its presence or absence.” Idea
held that the object of poetry is on the opposite side of chaos and that its formal
organization is of an acoustic matter, which is physically made of sounds, the
same as human speech. It is this concept that makes her insist on the relevance
of tone, stress and modulation. Rhythm is the words’ breath, its longing for
voice: its even rhythm, its wild blaze, its anguish or lethany. The intention of
this article is to analyse the function of these aspects in the light of some of
the writer’s poems, guided by the belief that Idea embodied Darío’s principle:
“Love your rhythm and give your actions rhyming”.