El abismo de la duración infinita y el acontecimiento. La elegía II de Garcilaso de la Vega

Abstract

The second Elegy is an original work in Garcilaso's poetics because it focuses its aesthetic reflection on the unlimited duration, without any event. The novelty lies in the fact that writing makes the event be the fundamental basis on which temporality stands. Indeed the absence of event puts the poetic voice in an endless time and space which then seems frozen. Getting out from what has no measure, to live in a measured and limited time and space, is then the only concern of the poetic voice and therefore of the Elegy. Because the Elegy is limited by a start and an end, it appears as being the event itself. As readers, we witness the poem unfolding and we feel its duration, only due to the power of artistic writing.