"¿Por qué con esa lengua artificiosa, arroyo, te metiste en mar tan brava?" Variatio, landscape and writing in Lope de Vega 's mythological poem La Filomena

Abstract

This work intends to analyze the first part of the mythological poem La Filomena included in Lope de Vega´s miscelanea of the same name published in 1621. We will try to describe the variatio as a constructive principle of volume but also of the poem. For this we will focus on the landscapes that the poem builds to present the history of the rape, mutilation, and metamorphosis of Filomena: fountains, sea and jungles. In this way we will try to show that the management of these spaces also involves reflection on coordinates poetic and generic that reinforce the multiplicity of meaning and the variety in writing.