A mystical and mythological reconciliation: the poetic image in “Retorno de Electra”, by Enriqueta Ochoa

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Enriqueta Ochoa, Retorno de Electra, Mexican poetry, Poetic image

Abstract

Characterized by its emotional tearing, the poetry of Enriqueta Ochoa stands on the depths of existence, especially what is revealed terrible in man. In “Retorno de Electra”, the coahuilense poet links the myth and the mystery of absence, which seem to move in opposite directions but which, when discovered in each of the verses, give origin to a series of poetic images. This article shows, using the poetics of Octavio Paz regarding the function of the image in poetry, how Ochoa reconciles the mystical sense of the father´s absence with the recurrence of the mystical patriarch in the Greek and Christian traditions to, thus, configure one of the fundamental works of the mexican poetic tradition of the twentieth century.

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2019-12-16

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Paredes Crespo, O. A. (2019). A mystical and mythological reconciliation: the poetic image in “Retorno de Electra”, by Enriqueta Ochoa. Sincronía, 24(77), 323–337. Retrieved from https://revistasincronia.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/sincronia/article/view/547

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Vol. 24 No. 77 (2020): January-June

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LETRAS

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