Against the death: investigation of a motive in the poetry of César Vallejo

Abstract

In the article, attention has been explored and focused on the subject of death as a real fact and its purpose is to discover, through the analysis of the literary work of Cesar Vallejo, the way in which this instinctive fear of the man towards death, which is shown as an ineluc­table act or condemnation and other times in a humanizing way, but with its eschatological and grotesque features; other times a death that is in solidarity with the human being and is part of its existence and therefore is inevitable. Finally, the words of Vallejo that invites reflection to kill the death that oppresses or kills the human in man and this is only achieved through solidarity.