Escritura femenina y escritura autobiográfica en A mi madre de Rosalía de Castro

Abstract

Rosalía de Castro’ s A mi madre is a poem where the lyric self offers a dark portrait of her life. Castro writes about herself in a perfect example of feminine writing and rescues a painful past in which the  gure of an absent mother arises. The Mother is an enclosed space that provides protection from the unknown and where subjective memory is preserved. The poet pays tribute to her mother’s memory through understanding and generosity. Rosalía strives after the right word to convey the sorrow of her personal experience. We believe that the writer uses a subjective approach bringing to the present what happened in a past in which a lonely childhood and the dream of a maternal shelter are interwoven. This early poem shows an idea which will be the key in the works of Rosalía, in other words, an extreme subjectivism that leads her to a perpetual suffering.