More thinking on the impossible situation

The revisions of this essay are almost complete.  It contemplates baroque ecology through the novísimo interest in Early Modern poetry.

Take these lines from "Obsenidad de los paisajes":

esa falsa materia que el mar vislumbra en la prisión del cielo.
Ahora que somos dos (la tormenta lo dice) y la noche que cae nos
señala el camino con culebras de luz

The impossible situation is an interesting mixture of our normal experience in an environment and the dislocation of the human subject in that environment.  While we might assume that the poet should convey his location in the scenery   This dislocation is a symptom of the experimental work by various voices in the novísimo movement in the late-60s and 70s.  These poets work through the analogue.  Communication is no longer one-to-one, first person to second person.  Instead, the Baroque leads them to breach into the 3rd person and finally no person (zero person).  Important here is Maravall's concept of incompleteness.  In prose or poetry, an author will inject mystery and magic into the form of the text.  Readers are left with a kind of aura around storylines and environments.  This also works to call attention to the fragementary nature of the text itself.  Its backdrop is unstable.  In painting, this becomes more clear as the observer is required to fill in the gaps and spaces left by the artist.  For Maravall, Velázquez is a master of this technique.  Splotches and blots of paint are used to create gaps in the visual piece.  It is up to the human mind to fill in these spaces.  And as Maravall states, this partial completion is often carried out with a modicum of liberty.  It seems to me that this sort of esthetics leaves the concept of place in suspension, as an openness towards other life forms and objects.

I also argue that it is not the case that the lyrical voice is somehow destroyed or rejected, but rather it becomes re-worked through (another) renewed interest in the experimental work throughout the history of Castilian poetry (modernismo, vencecianismo, baroque poetry, decadentismo, etc).

Here the false material is the normal view of a landscape, a view not only produced by vision but also by affect.  The impossible situation does not simply deny the possibility of horizons and emotions, but places them on unstable ground.  As I put it at one point in the paper, the poem "dilutes the figure of meaning into the ground of the world".