El cuerpo y el vuelo en la primera poesía de María Victoria Atencia

A poet as well as a pilot, Atencia entrusts her silenced dissent under the Franco regime to these activities: the home angel accepts her social role, but does not renounce to leaving the house and gaining her wings, sometimes literally to go up to the sky thanks to technology, others through her verse. Height is both a real space where she can overcome the limits imposed on her sex, and a metaphorical one where the female lyrical subject knows herself and expresses her right to self-determination, from Atencia’s early poetry; here, through the metaphor of a tree, the body acts as a mediator between the ground and the flight.