THE DIALECTICS BETWEEN MYSTICS AND POETRY IN SPIRITUAL CANTITIS B OF SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ
Spiritual Canticle. Mystical. Poetry. San Juan de la Cruz
Poetry, throughout history, has been an effective instrument in the propagation of religious messages. A concrete example is the biblical psalms, which were written around 1000 to 333 BCE and, thus, already showed the poeticity present in religious texts. But it was in the sixteenth century, in the reign of Felipe II, in the midst of a Spain committed to the Counter-Reformation, that this relation between poetry and religion seems more intrinsic, since the so-called ascetic and mystical literature arises, whose purpose was to describe spiritual experiences with the sacred. Among the main collaborators of this type of writing was the mystic and poet San Juan de la Cruz (1542-1591). From the studies on mysticism and poetry in the works of San Juan, by renowned authors such as Alonso (1946), Guillén (1969), among others, the present work aims to present the dialogue that takes place between two distinct areas, and poetry, as it is put in the texts of Baralt (1978), Duque (1990) and Gallardo (1992). And in order to obtain a satisfactory result, the poem Cántico Espiritual B was chosen as corpus, since it is one of the most relevant works of the author. Therefore, in this study, through the analysis of the corpus, we will thus show the possibilities of dialogue between mysticism and poetry.