Descent, transgression and creation: the eroticism in the poetry of Raúl Gómez Jattin

Abstract

This paper proposes an approach to the poetic write of the Colombian Raúl Gómez Jattin. As a result of the interpretation of the poems “Veneno de Serpiente Cascabel” and “El Elogio de los alucinogenos” written in the period from 1983 to 1986, this paper explain the symbolic multiplicity of poetic writing by Raúl Gómez Jattin. In relation with a viewpoint philosophical-literary this paper can decipher the relationship between the poetic saying and the connotations of otherness that the world of literature crosses, that from the poetry of Raúl Gómez Jattin is thought at the same time as descent, possibility of challenge to study the elements of the transgression what the Colombian poet Raúl Gómez Jattin needs inexcusable for the affirmation of life and literary space.