The Poem city. The city in the poetr y of Luis Vidales, Rogelio Echavarr ía and Juan Manuel Roca

Abstract

This investigation accounts for how it’s been expressed, interpreted and poetically founded the colombian city during the 20th century in the work of the colombian poets Luis Vidales (Suenan timbres), Rogelio Echavarría (El transeúnte) and Juan Manuel Roca (Luna de ciegos y Los ladrones nocturnos). This investigation inquires into how these three colombian poets have founded cities as writed texts, and charted symbolic cartographies of the city; also, this investigation interpretes the universes of the poet’s poetics, of the symbolic constelations the poet assumes as universe of the language, which builds imaginary topologies about the city, revealing fundamental archetypes, present in the urban colombian poetry.