Compromiso en la poesía española actual

Abstract

In this introduction to current Spanish poetry, we analyze several demonstrations of the ethical commitment of the authors in a society and in a time where the disrepute of the big meta-stories gets mixed with the hoped-for manifestations of humanity. In the poems, we can emphasize the realization of injustices,  pain,  or  discrimination,  and  they  turn  into  witnesses  of  a  historic moment in which numerous discriminations and economic or social injustices get mixed with gender injustices. The topic of war is present in the worries of the poets, as well as that of despotism, physical and psychological abuse and the necessity for equal rights. Fundamentally prominent are those poems in which the authors condemn the serious limitations that women suffer, either in a society which has no guarantee of human rights, or in social groups where, despite being guaranteed fairness by law, equal rights do not exist because of the strict cultural trends that survive, which are often rooted in a patriarchal model.