Language, Tongue and Mouth in Óscar Hahn’s Poetry

Abstract

This work examines the relationship between orality and language, subject and image in the poetry of Óscar Hahn. First, I show how orality shows a decentered subject by pleasure and violence that comes from language itself and from eroticism. Then, I analyse a poem where the mechanic depersonalization tries to embody the system of language as a place of otherness and structural dispersion. Finally, I read two poems in which the subject reflected in a mirror achieves a visual identity but where the mouth leads to personal destabilization in a critical and fantastic fashion.