Closing Remarks

Abstract

This book has examined twentieth-century Spanish poetry as part of that era’s rich cross-pollination among different cultural fields; it has examined the interactions of works of poetry with other art, such as cubism, but especially with discoveries in physics. Rather than being separate or opposed to art, modern physics moved to the forefront in the overall cultural avant-garde, and to a certain extent it could be considered its leading expression. The fact that terms such as relativity, electromagnetism, ether, wireless technologies, and the fourth dimension were used frequently in cultural circles and by the general public points to an awareness of changes in the conventional world-view, which artists, more than others, assumed and incorporated into their own works. This book has shown that an important cohort of Spanish poets, whose works have been consistently and almost exclusively examined through an artistic lens, were aware of and reacted to the drastic changes in physics. Those changes affected their understanding of the world, and the poets incorporated them into their project of artistic renewal.