Twist the neck of the swan...or the supposed death of modernist poetry.

Abstract

The following article seeks to reconsider the topicality of the literary movement of modernism at the
dawn of the third millennium and from the critical and hermeneutic analysis of the poem "Tuércele
el cuello al cisne...", which was meant to be a criticism of modernism from within it. It starts from a general panorama without completely ignoring the various controversies that arose for and against a
new finisecular literary aesthetic, to descend to the particular work of the most important
postmodernist in cultural Mexico of the first half of the twentieth century. We attempted to
interpret González Martínez's sonnet to place it in its corresponding literary context and better
understand the importance of its meaning and the derivations it originated in Mexican
postmodernist poetry. Finally, it is intended to diagnose, from the art of literature, the supposed
agony and death of this intercontinental tendency in the figure of its most distinguished symbol: the
modernist swan.