Hacia una poética del espacio en “Miré los muros de la patria mía”

Abstract

This article offers a reinterpretation of Quevedo’s sonnet “Miré los muros de la patria mía” based on the analysis of the textual mechanisms used by the poet to configure a unique poetic space. Starting off from one of the most recent works on this poem, which proposes its interpretation as an example of the poetry of ruins, I will try to demonstrate that Quevedo’s sonnet could be read as well within an interpretive framework that privileges the poem’s phenomenological aspects. From this perspective, “Miré los muros de la patria mía” makes a distinctive poetic proposal: an itinerant and spatial experience which ultimately looks for the reader’s involvement.