Del Siglo de Oro al siglo XX: poesía crítica, Cervantes versus Gil de Biedma

Intertextual coincidences, as a migration of forms, content or rhetorical resources between literary products from different ages, are essential to understand poetic works. The aim of this article is to compare two poems that share the choice of some rhetorical resources and their critical approach to the social situation: “Al túmulo del Rey Felipe II en Sevilla” (1598) by Miguel de Cervantes and “El arquitrabe” (1959) by Jaime Gil de Biedma. Both authors offer subversive visions through the ironic demystification. We do not defend that Cervante’s sonnet is a direct source of Biedma’s poem, but we want to show similarities, in order to confirm the thesis of the Baroque as background and origin of the wink of the mid-twentieth century Spanish poetry.