The lexicon of Saint John of the Cross' poems

Abstract

In this article, the lexicon of Saint John of the Cross’ poems of certain authorship is analysed using the Glosario de los poemas de San Juan de la Cruz, recently published in the internet as part of the project of the Glossari di Ispanistica. In this case, John of the Cross’ poetry has been explored from statistical data, grammatical categories, more frequent voices, dominant semantic fields, with the purpose of identifying the peculiarities of Saint John’s language. His preference for a particular lexicon is thus discovered, for tangible things and not for abstract ideas, in a manner similar to what happens with the traditional poetry.