Endless poetry

Encountering a book is nothing other than establishing contact, through language, with reality. In the case of a book with literary content, it also entails the clear intermediation of the author, because he does not limit himself to literally narrate something of reality, but he narrates what he himself has created and, on the other hand, he also expresses what he feels towards that reality. Literature has traditionally been considered as the art of building with words, but the word bridging the gap between the reality to which it refers and the way in which the writer sees and feels it. And even more so when it comes to the poetic genre.

To read literature, to read poetry, is not simply to understand the language, but to delve into what the writer feels. Not for nothing have the classics argued that the main purpose of literature in general, and of poetry in particular, is to "provoke aesthetic emotion". Thus, its objective is not exhausted with the fact that something is described or narrated, but its intention extends to generating emotions in the reader. Moreover, it would not be enough to "talk about emotions", not even to "narrate the emotions experienced" by the writer, but it tends to cause the emotional experience in the reader precisely because of the way the language is handled.

The warp of this book is woven by the variety of emotions, feelings, affections and essential contexts in the life of the human being: the ties of blood, the experiences in the village or the city, the experience of world events, the vibration before nature, the experience of everyday life, transcendence..., in short, the different shades of human life. Therefore, a certain attitude of empathy on the part of the readers is to be expected. And, if in some cases, the reader reaches the point of experiencing the aesthetic emotion, then it can be assured that the work was able to effectively convey what it was intended to convey. It is clear that this purpose is not exhausted with the mere fact of understanding the meaning of what is written, not even with identifying the emotion or affection that is expressed, but it seeks to reach the point of experiencing the beauty in the way of saying what is said.