A Walk Through Antonio Gala’s Poetic Landscapes: El poema de Tobías desangelado in Travel Lyric Poetry Key

Abstract

Compared to his theatrical production or his novels, Antonio Gala’s poetry has been much less studied by the academy. In this article, an approach to Gala’s poetry is made, specifically to his book El poema de Tobías desangelado (2005), proposing a reading, among other possible ones, of the book of poems, which is a peregrinatio vitae and a peregrinatio amoris too, in terms of travel lyric poetry in particular and in terms of travel literature in general. To do this, taking the work of Idoia Arbillaga as the main reference, the specific rhetorical issues of the genre present in the text are analyzed and exemplified —inventio, dispositio, elocutio, etc.— and all the elements related to the trip, also to the path and to the landscape, that Gala gathers in his poems, are collected and organized —the vehicles used, the contact with other cultures, their religions, their monuments, the companion, and so on—.