Dissimilation between the "I" persona and the "You" in Maria-Mercè Marçal's Poetry. A Comparative Study about the Terra de Mai and Sang Presa Sestets

Abstract

Building a very own space for women within the so-called love poetry implies not only a new construction of me and you. It also implies, inexorably, the recreation of the poetic language. Maria-Mercè Marçal uses the mirror as a symbol to express the physical equivalence of bodies which love/are loved in order to take to the limit the concept of merging. This merge, both physical and affectionate, becomes the transformer and affirmative action of the identity. The reciprocity between the poetic self and her other is woven through the use of images such as water, blookd, sweat, etc., which have traditionally received a heinous nature. Marçal, on the other hand, foregrounds them showing their germinal and deep expressiveness. In a second tage, separation and nostalgia block the poem into a mutilated poetic self, which looks for two things: the absent body and the self's joyful space that is irreparably injured. There is a distillation of a new poetic world, culminating in the achievement of female and lesbian literary space. This creates new areas for the expression of desire, definitely conquered by Marça and offered to Catalan poetry.