El proceso imaginario-poético en el Cántico Espiritual de Juan de la Cruz

The demand to get rid of everything in mysticism and at the same time the unitive path that consists of embracing God capture a dynamic between “nothing” and “everything” that underlies the poetic verbal impulse of many compositions of Saint John of the Cross. Along with this, the notion of knowledge is deployed, declined in various nuances and degrees, a notion that in turn participates in said dynamic. It will attempt to analyze the poetic verbal transformation of cognitive and spiritual experience into visionary expression, taking into account Juan de Yepes’ initial training with the Jesuits.