Sweet Abyss. Metaphor about love and the erotism in Silvio Rodríguez

Abstract

Summary

Silvio Rodriguez, who is a Cuban poet and a singer, 74 years old, has an important trajectory of four decades, in permanent interaction with the transformations of Cuban society, Latin America and with the configuration of a global society. In this essay, we want to share some ideas with the objective of understanding how, love and erotism are present in the songs of Silvio, while the poet enriches their meaning, their sense. We postulate that, in the creative “corpus” of our singer, he express poetics forms that accomplish two terms: they help to specific achievements of inspiring love, to talk about life experiences, to denunciate the social fraud to the love and to announce new configurations to love free and full, without forgetting the couple universe, but expanding the horizon to the fraternity and the transcendence. In the same way that happens with a great variety of artistic expressions, as Ernst Bloch said, they are bearer of a utopian excess. Love and erotism are projected to the future; a future that should satisfy some conditions in order to the love to be free and the erotism to be that double flame, which Octavio Paz talked about.