De ‘figurante’ a protagonista

The tribute poems have had artistic and intellectual figures to their object of reflection: However, and mainly since the 20th century, panegyrics to the working subject have begun to proliferate. The objective of this article is to offer an analysis of the collection of poems El cantar de los oficios (2015), by Carlos Manuel Villalobos, from the generic coordinate of the poetic portrait, in particular, from the praise of the people ́s trades, as an individuality and as a collective. Thanks to the poetic discourse, the people, in tribute to their work performance, go from being an extra to a protagonist, this collection of poems is analyzed from different levels, all of them at the service of the mentioned objective: the textual, the linguistic, the stylistic (rhetorical), the external formal (versification), the semantic or thematic, the intertextual and the declarative

Poetry · Praise · Subject matter · Tribute · Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Literary and Philosophical Studies