José Hierro's lyrics or the musicality to the rythm of commitment

Abstract

José Hierro's poetry is a true score that is addressed to all kinds of audiences, because his poetry-music is both popular and cultured, oscillating between deep topics, such as confinement and death, which are the traces of his life, and a deep commitment that is present throughout the artist's entire existence. The poetry-music of Hierro is also a score that has the peculiarity of having a beat of nine beats, the eneasyllabic verses that Hierro uses as a mark of his style. In addition, the poet's musical art is immense, and shows a good knowledge of music, which he incorporates into his poems, showing us that he knows how to use an endless number of voices comparable to choral polyphonic art that, on the other hand, is nourished by intertextuality, of modernity and humor. It is, therefore, a true symphony proposed by José Hierro: a symphony of lights and sounds, "a poetry for the ears" that leads to a mystical lyric in its most secular sense, that is, in the search for some hidden meaning in his poetry that can only be found in silence.