Love as an “oceanic feeling”: the unity of Federico Barreto’s poetic work
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Giovanna Pollarolo
Instituto Riva-Agüero
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3209-9899
Abstract
In 1993, to celebrate the sixty-fourth anniversary of Tacna’s return to Peru, Banco Continental published Federico Barreto: Poetry. The volume, divided into two sections (“Aroma de mujer” and “Poesía patriótica”), confirmed the traditional view of a split Barreto: on the one hand, the “singer of captivity, ready to die for the Fatherland and longing to return to his native Tacna”; on the other, the poet of love and eroticism. In this paper, I propose that these are not two opposing and irreconcilable aspects, since homeland, Tacna, and woman are synonymous for Barreto, just as God and the beloved were in mystical poetry. I develop my argument by providing basic information about the histo-rical context in which Barreto lived and suffered, and I support it by presenting a collection of poems following a brief review of notions of love in the West.
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