Abstract

Arboles en la musica, a collection of poems by Spanish poet Amparo Amoros, is analyzed poem by poem, as a close reading. ;The analysis is thematic in nature and is done in light of the collection's feminist and spiritual tendencies which are opposed to scientism and other characteristics of the modern Western world. The poems reflect a subtext of Biblical and mystical inspiration, beginning with a description of the natural world and ending with a liberation of the individual spirit and a transcendence of death. A poem from another of Amoros' collections is also discussed since its significance complements the philosophy revealed in Arboles en la musica. The conclusion studies Amoros' view of art through her poem "Transfiguracion."