POETRY AND KNOWLEDGE: COGNITIVE URGE AND DEATH OF THE IDEAL IN THE COLOMBIAN LYRIC GENRE

This article offers a reading of the debates on "knowledge" and mimetic commitment of the Colombian lyric poem in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on the problem of truth and the hegemonic code of representation of the female body. We will study how the project of Colombian poetry in the late XIX century was based on the heteronomous dependence of poetry, relying on a prescriptive mastery of language and the feminization of the poem. We will also analyze how the canonical validation strategies of this project are challenged in the twentieth century by the anti-metaphysical vision of poets such as Luis C. Lopez, Hector Rojas Herazo, Gonzalo Arango, Raul Gomez Jattin and Maria Mercedes Carranza.