The invisible in the visible. The poet as clearing of the world in the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez.

Abstract

In the time of positivism of scientific reason, Juan Ramón Jiménez experiences the world as a void of meaning. Juan Ramón considers that in the visible of the world there is a latent invisible dimension and that, in it, lie the truth and the sense of things. The mission of poetry is to unveil this invisibility. Poetry then focuses on the visible, finite and temporal, and there it searches for meaning, the eternal and infinite. What Juan Ramon’s poetry does is to eternalize the temporal and visible. But the unveiling of the world is endless because the invisible cannot be said completely. The world is given as a permanent play of the visible and the invisible. Here we show that the poet is the clearing where the world is unveiled. Things themselves become clear in the poet. To be the clearing, the poet has to deserve it, has to love things and needs solitude. Poetry as a clearing is a power of salvation that remedies the wound of the senseless world.