Towars a Refoundation of Poetry Criticism

Abstract

This article proposes to reconsider the figure of Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera as the founder of modern Mexican poetry, from whom the great figures of Ramón López Velarde and José Juan Tablada would emerge, the so-called symbolic parents, Adam and Eve –according to Xavier Villaurrutia. Through a review of various poems by Gutiérrez Nájera, the greatness of his poetic work is demonstrated as an Aeolian harp with many tones: romantic, parnassian, modernist, decadent and even satirical. As of these manifold forms, the multifaceted poet inaugurates several traditions of modern Mexican poetry that boast against the inevitable pain of the capitalist reproduction. In a sense, it's the same thing as what Karl Marx proposes in Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, a reproduction process that produces the same capitalist relationship: the capitalist and the wage-earner or, as the case may be, the traditions and the writer.