Aproximación a la poesía de Edgard Allan Poe a través de las teorías sobre el imaginario de Gaston Bachelard

Zusammenfassung

All work has its origin in a parent substance where rests the poetic genius. This inner substance remains constant in the body of the language. Poetic imagination emerges from this elementary layer that determines the meaning of the poetic word. According with this premise, Gaston Bachelard distinguishes four archetypes from which the work of art emerges. Among these four archetypes, water is studied by Bachelard taking Poe's work as a model. A symbolic analysis of the author's imaginary universe allows us to unravel the sense laid out by his poetry while understanding these archetypical waters as a generating element of his poetry. Throughout the next pages, we will see the development of a poetic process born in germinal depths, expanded through strata dominated by dynamic tensions rich in imagery, and finally ending in an abyss perceived as a chaotic and unknowable space of dissolution.