Geist, AnthonyKullberg, Matthew Lee2019-08-142019-08-142019-08-142019-08-142019Kullberg_washington_0250O_20493.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/44444Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2019In this study I carry out a transatlantic comparison between two poets: Luis Cernuda of the Generation of ’27 to represent Spain and Xavier Villaurrutia of Los Contemporáneos to represent Mexico. In order to carry out the comparison I use the complete range of their works of poetry, however in particular I focus my critical gaze on Villaurrutia’s Nostalgia de la muerte and Cernuda’s Los placeres prohibidos in order to analyze and emphasize the three main elements of what I deem “the gay experience” and homoerotic desire within their body of works, those being the representation of: The closet, coming out of the closet and homoeroticism itself.application/pdfesCC BYGayHomoeroticismHomoerotismoLuis CernudaPoesí­aXavier VillaurrutiaLiteratureLatin American literatureRomance languages and literatureThesis