Poesía y seducción en los escritos estéticos de "A"

Abstract

This paper offers a commentary on the aesthetical categories of poetry and music towards seduction, categories that the “aesthete A”, who reflects the poetic personality, exhibits in The Alternative. The author points out the páthos of the poet not only directed to his listeners and readers, but to himself too, revealing, then, the true existential tragedy that the poet has to face, a tragedy he is so thoroughly aware of that only his peers can understand, his co-burried brothers: a society of dead poets. With this aesthetic figure, sorrow is dissociated from anguish in order to indicate that the poet only has a past while living in sorrow, whereas anguish always point to future and offers an illusion. But this can only be understood by a poet, one who suffers the same, and this is why when the poet is asked to sing again his so seducing poems, he is really asked to experience new suffering in his soul.