“¿Conservabas tu carne en cada hueso?”: Sobre las interrogaciones como núcleos de significación en algunos poemas de Ramón López Velarde

Abstract

In this essay, the hypothesis is that some questions can be important nuclei of significance in the poems of López Velarde. To try to verify it, we will conduct a revision of the theoretical approaches on rhetorical questions, both from rhetorical and linguistic standpoints. In particular, we will rely on the ideas of Burguera Serra, Fontanier, Schmidt-Radefeldt, and Igualada Belchí. Based on the above, we will analyze what is asked, how is it asked, why is it asked, what kind of questions they are, and their possible meanings, in some texts of two of his books: La sangre devota (1916) and especially Zozobra (1919).