Las patrias de Manuel Scorza

Abstract

This article is a critical essay that uses a comparative methodology and semantic exploration in order to understand the actual and modern meanings of two poetic texts, “Patria tierna” y “Patria pobre”, concerning first at all a marvelous attitude and secondly a provocative perspective, instead that they were written in 1955. Trough the linguistic and rhetoric analysis, the author shows how Scorza expresses his poetic and ideological project about Peru, his country, contrasting two radical and opposites visions: the one metaphorical deals with hope and possibility of transforming the society, and the other prosaic position full of violence that faiths against the first one. Two axes are key on Manuel Scorza’s poetic writing: the aim of peace and social justice in Peru.