Voces de poetas : Introducción a un estudio fonético experimental sobre Alberti, Guillén y Neruda

Abstract

This paper presents a first phonetic study on Spanish poetry reading. It is composed of a theoretical introduction and an experimental analysis. We firstly consider and carry out a qualitative analysis on three representative Spanish-speaking 20th-century poets, namely Rafael Alberti, Jorge Guillén, and Pablo Neruda, to be later compared to three contemporary poets. Following an experimental phonetic approach, our research applies the VIP-Voices of Italian Poets methodology and shows, in turn, a system based on norm and variation, which also confirms the importance of experimental studies to deepen the vocality of poetry. Furthermore, the research, although based on a small corpus of recordings, allows comparing three main different poetry reading styles, considering a reasoned selection of indices. Finally, thanks to a qualitative-comparative approach, it is possible to detect not only stylistic divergences between the last and the current century, but also different ways of producing one of the main rhetorical aspects of poetry, namely the enjambment.