¡Ay, querencia, dolencia y apetencia!’: retórica y sentimientos en la poesía de Miguel Hernández

In a reading of Sonnet 12 in the Rayo che no cesa by M. Hern‡ndez, written half way through the third decade of the 20th century, we analyse the astonishing baroque rhetoric of the composition. Above all, we apply a historical method of research to the lexis of affectivity, working on the early Castilian monolingual and bilingual dictionaries of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (or those which include meanings from these two centuries). The method brings out a dual tendency on the part of the author: the presence in the text of archaisms, no longer used in the twentieth century except in the pastoral or peasant environment (from which Hern‡ndez himself came), and the imitation of the poetry of the Golden Age, frequent in the Spanish avant-garde movements, but fundamental in the whole work of the poet from Alicante.