La poesía temprana de Carlos Pellicer: del cosmopolitismo exotista a la historicidad poética

Abstract

The early poetry of Carlos Pellicer exemplifies a fundamental change in Hispanic American poetry. His work reveals the transition between exotic, ahistorical cosmopolitism and a new poetry of historical consciousness that explores Hispanic America's own history and reality. Specifically, “La elegía de tus ojos” (1914), “Imperial agonía” (1916) and “Oda a Cuauhtémoc” (1924) exemplify this new focus during the cosmopolitan period of Hispanic American poetry. Upon comparing the exotic approach to indigenous history in the two earlier poems with the socially compromised treatment that advocates continental resistance to coloniality in “Oda a Cuauhtémoc”, I will illustrate this representative change in the early work of Pellicer.