Nicanor Parra en el territorio del lenguaje

Abstract

The author points out how language, specifically, the poet Nicanor Parra’s coloquial Chilean Spanish, is a primary source of cultural identity, and lies at the basis of his textual constructions. The proposed points of veiw are specified in the analysis of two poems: “Epoyeya de Chillán”, from the Parra’s youth, insecure and inmature in its high-sounding rhetorical approach, and “Hay un día feliz”, a sound piece of poetry where coloquial style becomes true poetic language.