Angel

Abstract

The poem harmonizes the three different orders or dimensions that involve the words: the sounds, the senses, and the visual forms produced by writing. Externally, the outline provided by the verses takes the stylized form of an angel; but his head is also a cup, and his heart is a sun. These three visual elements dialogue with the content of meanings that the poem brings, when talking about a man who, drinking his glass of wine in a bar, becomes an angel during the drunken night. However, when day breaks and the pub closes, the angel returns home and falls asleep, only to finally notice – the next morning – that the wings had turned into a hangover and reverted him to a common man. The author is also attempt to the sonorities of words, elaborating repetition patterns at the end of the verses - between the second and third stanzas - and also developing internal rhymes. The external form is combined with the poetic plot, which goes from expansion (the transformation into an angel) to contraction (the return to the human).