Valparaíso, Foundational Poetics: Gonzalo Rojas, Pablo Neruda and Pablo de Rokha

Abstract

Gonzalo Rojas, Pablo Neruda and Pablo De Rokha, occasional residents of Valparaiso, produced texts which demonstrate a foundational disposition, in the sense that they poeticize what, from the perspective of each poet, gives the basement foundation for the city-port. The work examines these texts, warning in them a poetics that articulates the consciousness of the instituting power of the word with the representations of the space of Valparaiso, constructed from the dialogue between the local “geocultural” imaginary and the individual poetic imaginary.