Poetry and politics, Poetic Matrix in the Historical Construction of the Reign of Chile

Abstract

At the light of several colonial literary works, this article reviews relationships between poetry and politics from the Colony to the first formation of the Chilean Republic. This approach allows us to observe that in the early literary creation of the kingdom of Chile there existed a deep mixture between historical discourse, political discourse and poetic enunciation of reality. Such mixture is what is presented as the “transcolonial imagination of Chile”, which is concretized as a foundational poetic-literary matrix of important weight in the historical and cultural configuration of Chile.