The Poetic Realism of Juan Ramón Jiménez

Abstract

In this article we try to think philosophically about the essence of the poetic world in Juan Ramón Jiménez and its relationship with things. The intuitive thinking of poetry has had as its main theme the very essence of poetry. This analysis focuses especially on the first three poems of the book Eternities of 1916. We believe that Juan Ramón's final position is poetic realism. The ideal of his poetry is that the world is the exact name of things, that the word be the thing. This is what he calls pure poetry. The primacy of the thing that follows from this amount neither to a gross realism nor to a poetic idealism. Juan Ramón's poetic realism constantly aspires to recreate the world from the poet's soul.