Extent of the mythical in Landivar’s poem

Abstract

This paper analyzes the mythical dimension of Landívar´s famous poem, Rusticatio Mexicana, and takes advantage of its model, Virgil’s Georgics, to establish a mythical comparison between two animals, the beaver of the Novo-Hispanic poet and the bee of the Latin poet. Al the same time, the analysis considers aspects of classical poetics that are still problematic in the field of literary theory.