El amor y la expresión petrarquista en la Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea de Góngora

Abstract

In this article we propose to analyze the Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea of Luis de Góngora in the light of the Petrarchan influence, with the purpose of considering how much there is of presence and how much this movement has overcome. To do this we will mainly focus on the love episode between Acis and Galatea, in order to aboard three critical issues: 1) the treatment of the concept of love and the conjunction of renaissance elements -the harmony, the myth of the Golden Age, the conflict between art and nature- and baroque elements -the excesses, the artificiality, the disorder-, already assimilated to the Spanish lyric during the XVI century , that Góngora achieves to emulate when introducing it in his unique poetic language; 2) the Gongoristic treatment of the Petrarchan imagery, especially notorious in this episode, and 3) The use of certain Petrarchan structures.