Alfonsina Storni y el (a)mar loco de las mujeres

Abstract

Born in Switzerland, Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938) is a neo-romantic poet known as one of the most representative figures of this genre in Latin America. Poems of love is her only work written in prose and one of her most intimate, intense and passionate books, in which she explores love and passion from her own experience on human pain. We analyze it with the aim to recognize the characteristics of the subjective experience of love from a feminine position, as «ideal love», total, mad love, experimented as an absolute experience, capable of surpassing women as subjects and of situating them at the limits of subjective life and death; an overwhelming experience that, nonetheless, Alfonsina Storni transforms into poetry in order to say something, if not everything, about her own process of becoming a woman, thus amplifying her freedom and autonomy horizons.