Pablo de Rokha and Madre España: the zenith of social and political commitment in “Imprecación a la bestia fascista”

Abstract

The Spanish Civil War is considered one of the most important war conflicts occurred in the twentieth century. The internal struggle that arose between democrats and nationalists managed to influence arts and literature in much parts of the world, being Chile one of those countries where the event marked a new future in literary production at the time. This article focuses on the rise of the social poetry of Pablo de Rokha. From the beginning till the end De Rokha was recognise all over the country for his social commitment. In this line, the following effort aims to examine the process that underlies the advent of the compromised poetry of Pablo de Rokha, with the purpose of situating and proposing "the imprecated word" as the aesthetic component that stands out in the book Madre España (1937) and in the subsequent evolution of the Rokhian work.