Editing Vicente Aleixandre (section)

===Surreal poetry===
In the following years, between 1928 and 1932, there is a radical change in Aleixandre's poetic conception. Inspired by the predecessors of [[surrealism]] (especially [[Arthur Rimbaud]] and [[Lautréamont]]) and by [[Freud]], he adopts [[prose poetry]] (''Passion of the Earth'', 1935), [[free verse]], and plainly surreal methods such as free verse and the visionary image (''[[Swords like Lips]]'', 1932; ''[[Destruction or Love]]'', 1935; ''[[Shadow of Paradise]]'', 1944) as his form of expression. The aesthetics of these poems are irrational, and the expression comes close to "flow", even without accepting it as a dogma of faith. Along with surrealism, the poet does not take on any tradition, not even the metric, and frees himself. [[Luis Cernuda]] could say: "Your verse is like nothing else." And in effect his style brings unpublished stylistic novelties such as the inverted [[simile]] (''Swords like Lips'') or the equivalent disjunctive nexus (''Destruction or Love''), the [[hyperbole]] adds, the uncoded dream [[symbol]], enriching without question the stylistic possibilities of the Spanish poetic language, just as [[Garcilaso de la Vega (poet)|Garcilaso]], [[Góngora]] and [[Rubén Darío]], each one a great renovator of lyric language, did in the past. The poet celebrates love as a natural, ungovernable force that breaks down all human limitations and criticizes the conventionalism with which society attempts to conquer it.