La angustia por el paso del tiempo y la vejez: la escritura como terapia en la poesía de Constantinos Cavafis y de Jaime Gil de Biedma

Abstract

The greek poet Constantinos Cavafis (1863-1933) and the spanish poet Jaime Gil de Biedma (1929-1990) attempt to exorcise the inexorable passage of time and the desperation for the physical decadence that carries along by means of their art, by poetry. The process is the following: the pleasant experience that belongs to the past revives in present through memory. And that memory, thanks to the essential role that imagination (gr. fantasy) parts, is transformed in artistic creation. en consequence, the art for both poets possesses a therapeutic function. with the only difference that in Cavafis the hedonism is totally accepted, while in Gil de Biedma we find a constant feeling of guilt and regret that tortures the poetic subject until the end.