José Agustín Goytisolo and his generation: poetry style and recitation style

Abstract

This paper aims to study how José Agustín Goytisolo and two other poets of his generation, Jaime Gil de Biedma and Ángel González, recite their own poems. As it will be seen, the three poets share a style close to colloquial speech, as the characteristics of their compositions demand, but they show different strategies when it comes to highlighting the characteristics of the sounds that make up the poem and, above all, the features of their rhythm. The paper, written from the perspective of the study of experimental Phonetics, also proposes a methodology to analyze these matters that allows to establish, quantitatively, the differences between the three styles of recitation and that is applicable to other studies that propose the same objectives.