“Ninfa y pastor, por Ticiano”: Art, Eroticism and Poetic Renovation in the Last Poetry of Luis Cernuda

Abstract

This study analyzes and interprets the poem “Ninfa y pastor, por Ticiano” of Desolación de la Quimera (1962), Luis Cernuda’s last book. Both the ekphrasis of Titian’s painting, in whose description the erotic desire of the lyric self subordinates the objectivity of the image, as well as intertextuality, among other elements of the style and structure of the poem, propose a reflection on humanity and its relationship with art and love, which explains the renovation of Cernudian language and themes that the book presents. The poem broadly illustrates the new aesthetic proposal of Desolación de la Quimera.