Walter Benjamin y la forma de la poesía

Abstract

Walter Benjamin is one of the most influential critics of the last decades on cultural studies, especially those pertaining to literature. His contribution to lyric analysis is of utmost interest, despite the shadow cast by a "sociologizing" interpretation of his ideas around the shape of a poem. This writing intends to remove that shadow and place, just at the core of the analysis, Benjamin’s ideas on Baudelaire and Hölderin as role models of the process of reflection and poetic organization of human experience. Indeed, although this last topic is reviewed in the The Concept of Art Critique in German Romanticism, it nevertheless remains obliterated in the famous essays on the Parisian poet. In the present paper, some dark, ambiguous areas on his work over lyrics are clarified, and contributions from the Berliner critic are restored with his aesthetic specificity.