A tensive reading of the poem Romance Sonámbulo

Abstract

The title of this paper makes a direct reference, as a tribute, to a fundamental text of the semiotician Claude Zilberberg, published in 1972, in the famous essay collection organized by A. J. Greimas (Essais de Sémiotique Poétique). So, this paper, following the logic of your inspiring text, intents to approach poetry from de poem Romance Sonámbulo (1928) by Spanish poet Federico García Lorca and, in the case of semiotics, from the tensive point of view, preferred term by Zilberberg to describe own theory, known as tensive semiotics. Moving away from the narrative structure gradually and approaching the articulation between intensivity and extensivity, as well as its by-products, surely the tensive model has a lot to say about an unexpected event, as we intend to interpret Lorca’s poem, which causes not the only one but several moments of break of implicative logic, building a true ode towards the concession sense.