Del crit del silenci al cant absolut. (Un recorregut per la poesia de Joan Vinyoli)

Abstract

The evolution of the poet Joan Vinyoli (1914-1984) after the Spanish Civil War is analyzed in this paper. He used his poetry to shelter from the insecurity and the doubts of the existence. Thus, he began a meditation process in search of a deep knowledge of his spiritual intimacy. In this way, the poet hears a new voice, the ‘silent voice’, which Vinyoli tried to take into his poems. However, this attempt not always was obtained, provoking a deep suffering. This circumstance was solved after many years, when the poet realized that the poetry is not the way to know himself, but it is an autonomous world, pure and spiritual, independent of the difficulties and the obstacles that he had found during his poetic life.