MIRAR A LA ROSA, MIRAR MÁS ALLÁ

This essay studies the motif of the rose in the poetry of Martín Adán and concentrates on the analysis of the eight “ripresas” published in the book Travesía de Extramares. He argues that the poems were written within a Platonic philosophy that affirms the existence of a superior reality where eternal ideas reside, beyond the instability of the world. This place, where everything is perfect and absolute, produces a contrast with the earthly reality that can only be described as a pale shadow of that other world. To verify the abyss, but also to look for articulations between the ideal and the sensible, is part of this poetic project. Observing the reality of the world, but always trying to go beyond appearances, is the final image that many of the poems project.